Tag: random musings
member name: Greg Schiller
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May 01, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
Critique welcome
Somewhere East of Elko Nevada, Allen and Meg turned off the interstate to glide under the concrete canopy of a Philips 66 station. The canopy cast a deep blue pool . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Obviously the Humor Gang has recovered from the long July 4th weekend. (For those living at latitudes and longitudes not tormented by American electoral politics, there is less of an excuse, for instance . . .
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July 14, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
The happiest man in the world is a pink little guy I used to care for at the Faribault State Hospital in Minnesota. "The Colonel" was born with severe Down's Syndrome, yet he enjoyed . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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January 19, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
I know of a man handicapped by intelligence; he is in every sense of the word, a nerd. Eluded by social and physical grace, as well as success, he still remains undeniably breathtakingly brilliant. . . .
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February 03, 2007 09:05 AM EST --
I woke this morning to the crackle of a window frame; outside, it is -15F. The cold compresses the windows in its grip. I scramble out of bed, pull on some sweats and shiver until my body heat reflects . . .
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January 21, 2007 11:26 AM EST --
I hit two deer in three days at the same spot in the road. To be precise, I hit one, the other hit me. The first accident occurred while commuting one crisp moonless morning on a road slicked black with . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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May 08, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
Imagine the day after the 2008 election. The Democrats will be whooping it up, having bagged the presidency and padded their power in the House and Senate.
They will be giddy as newly weds - . . .
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May 06, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
Critique welcome
For Meg, The Black Hills were more than mountains. She carried a worn, marked-up copy of "Black Elk Speaks" in support of her belief that . . .
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June 08, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --
Critique Welcome
You look like you have been up all night.
Yeah, we had the break-up fight. Marcy is gone.
I am really sorry to hear that. She was a nice kid.
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:23 AM EDT --
Yesterday, I broke new ground for workers rights.
It occurred near the coffee machine where I did a little dance with a new employee. I was so preoccupied with the "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" postings . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
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