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I'm just somebody I used to know; a shadow of my former self with a talent to amuse. I've worn many hats along the way, and some of them even fit.
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I recently discovered I've been getting my own origin story wrong all my life. I always knew my older sister was named after the heroine of Dad's favorite book/movie, but I assumed Mom chose my name to rhyme with it because she loved being a twin and having a name that sounded like her sister's.

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Being American and Gen X means that sometimes out of nowhere, you just get a craving for government cheese that nothing else can really satisfy.

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Well, I might not live the year out, but at least some billionaire will be able to build his fourth summer home out of solid platinum instead of boring old gold. #uspolitics #interestingtimes

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VINCENT PRICE

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Hey, NYC! Register as a Democrat online by February 13 to be able to vote AGAINST ADAMS in the June primary! gregpak.net/2025/02/10/u...

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Another night with no sleep. I honestly don't know how many this makes. The thing about keeping sleep journals is, you generally have to have a little more executive function going on than I do when the insomnia is uponya.

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So I finished Dallas, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest, and I'm moving on to Knot's Landing. Pretty soon I'll have watched everything that was on past my bedtime.

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A goat peed on me in church once.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... died on this day, so here are four of Lynd Ward's 1934 illustrations to Frankenstein:

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Already called my reps, and I have a lot of confidence in my state, but unless the Medicaid situation changes it's pretty much goodnight from me.

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Why does my "good" hip hurt worse than the one that's been broken in three places? Old Man Winter has a weird sense of humor.

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Doctor: So, what form of contraception are you using? Wife: Hospital corners.

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tag urself i'm the one in the hat

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