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Mike commented on the post, configuration 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Can you figure it? Can you configure it? I mean, I just sat there looking at the thing for what seemed like hours but must have been only a minute or two. The configuration was knotted, metallic, whorled, […]
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Mike commented on the post, soups 11 months, 4 weeks ago
soups du jour, soups cold and hot, soups to nuts. gazpacho, potato, tomato, chicken noodle, tortilla.
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Mike commented on the post, minute 12 months ago
He was minute, Stuart Little small. On the dance floor, he presented a problem to the larger dancers who risked squishing him by accident.
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Mike commented on the post, pits 12 months ago
I ate the cherries pits and all, and the pits sank into my gut like little bullets of life, life that would not flourish in the whorling vortex of my gut.
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Mike commented on the post, monitor 1 year ago
See the two “o”s in “monitor”? They are eyes looking at you, looking through you, monitoring your every move. Don’t move. You’re being surveilled by camera monitors right now. Smile.
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Mike commented on the post, calling 1 year ago
Calling frome France used to be difficult. Do you remember? The phone offices for international
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Mike commented on the post, backspace 1 year, 1 month ago
I backspaced through the word to delete it but hit the wrong key and deleted the whole document, all seventy-seven pages. Achh! I shouted, then threw the laptop on the stone floor, shattering it. Can I go back […]
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Mike commented on the post, romance 1 year, 1 month ago
Ah, Rome. How romantic. Roma. Antic. Antique Rome. Rome antiques. Romantics.
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Mike commented on the post, shorthand 1 year, 1 month ago
Ok, so my hands are short. Don’t mock me. I hate that nickname. “Hey shorthand, why don’t you hand me that shovel?” Ah, eck you. My hands are not that short. They are delicate. Dainty. Digital.
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Mike commented on the post, instrumental 1 year, 1 month ago
The instrumental accompaniment was perfect for a play like The Winter’s Tale. Stripped down, elemental, elegant, and useful. Isn’t that a root meaning of “instrumental,” that it serve as an instrument? That it […]
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Mike commented on the post, nominated 1 year, 1 month ago
In name only, nomine, the named, the nominee, or rominee, heehee. We all go down to our perdition eventually, nominated or not.
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Mike commented on the post, upright 1 year, 1 month ago
Uptight? Oh, upright. Yes, sometimes. Morally? Or standing up erect? Am I?
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Mike commented on the post, hearing 1 year, 1 month ago
What?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
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Mike commented on the post, separate 1 year, 1 month ago
pronounced two ways: sep-ret, and sep-uh-rate. Two separate words. And the clue to how not to misspell it: it has “a rat” in it.
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Mike commented on the post, alibi 1 year, 1 month ago
Meaning not there, as in I wasn’t there when the gun went off, or I wasn’t there when John said he never loved her, and his marriage was a sham.
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Mike commented on the post, alibi 1 year, 1 month ago
Meaning not there, as in I wasn’t there when the gun went off, or I wasn’t ther when John said he never loved her, and his marriage was a sham
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