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2009

December 47

November 51

October 53

September 45

August 77

July 53

June 77

May 64

April 86

March 106

February 106

January 80

2008

December 23

November 103

October 116

September 95

August 112

July 133

June 90

May 105

April 96

March 98

February 62

January 46

2007

December 32

November 31

October 12

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January

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The steel asparagus on a Saturday afternoon.

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You're nice to ask.

Man Sitting Next To Me at My Sketchy Neighborhood Coffee Shop: Hello.
Me: Uh. Hi.
Man: So are you Muslim?
Me: Nope.
Man: Christian?
Me: Yep.
Man: Oh. How was Christmas?

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Today

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— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable...

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So you sit in the back of a darkened theater last night and you listen to one of your heroes speak. ...

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Spotted way up on the North Shore yesterday..

By the time we hit the North Shore, we’d outrun the...

So we drove up to Duluth today, went back to the maritime...

“Kerala is a state located in southwestern India,...

“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die....”
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Woke up indulgently this morning, without the alarm, without...