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Gopher

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:18:13 -0500

I used to fetch lottery tickets for my parents when I was a kid. Tickets back then used to look this way:

Ready for it

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:16:27 -0500

It's going to start snowing around here one of these days. And I will not have much confidence that I will have seen the last of it until around the middle part of April 2010, at the latest. I feel ready.

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It's as important, if not moreso

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:29:11 -0500

When running through the Rules of Fight Club, many people remember firstly and seem to recall what was identified as Rule No. 1 (and 2), the order requiring one not to speak of fight club. But, often overlooked is the highly underrated yet wholly...

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A primer

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:31:54 -0500

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Sitting on things

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:07:10 -0500

Things everyone else seems to love but I just could not get into: 1. The Beatles 2. Buffy 3. Anime 4. The creative class 5. Contact lenses If they died tomorrow, I wouldn't bat an eye: 1. Manu Ginobilli 2. Joe Buck 3. Matt Lauer 4. Claire Danes 5...

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So good, it can go by only 2 letters

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:21:59 -0500

Sitting in the wonderment-inducing lobby of Toronto's Sheraton Centre, chatting briefly with the missus, I had in my earshot a guy leaving a voicemail message for someone. "Heyyyy Meg [name has been changed for this story], wanted to let you know ...

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TO dessert

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:07:35 -0500

Before settling in -- and this is what you happens when you travel pregnant [and if you're lucky, you've married a gal who, despite being dead on her feet, will politely ask you if you want to go grab a beer, while she watches or not give a shit ...

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Toronto II

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:16:52 -0500

This morning shaped things up nicely. We started with one of the things we first discussed when we decided to come to Toronto, one of our favorite pasttimes, crepes on Queen Street. About four blocks away from our hotel is Cafe Crepes. Options...

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Semi-live from Toronto

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:29:15 -0500

You may or may not have noticed a flurry of activity here in the coop. Around Halloween, I declared to myself that I would attempt to post to the Chicken 30 posts in 30 days. And I have accomplished that to a degree. I missed one day. Actually I m...

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:57

nobody@vox.com(City Chicken) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:51:55 -0500

That's roughly all it took for Thanksgiving this year. I've never minded Thanksgiving. I have always appreciated and valued the day off from work, enjoy the sentiment the day is supposed to conjure, and have never shied away from a dinner table h...

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