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The Protest Song Reloaded

On March 4, 2011 By

You remember last week when I wrote that really sensitive protest song.

That wasn’t a question – I am just telling you that you remember.

Okay.

Now do you remember the Don Cheadle Theme Song and how @ebonwumon did a remix that caught on fire.

Of course you do, and that [...]

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Plants Are Good For the Environment

On February 9, 2011 By

You might think you know all the things I can be sensitive about, but maybe not.

Did you know that one of them is not the environment.

Think of all the plants that died to make this bottle, and how many mosquitos we could have saved if we’d used that to make more nets.

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Is T-Mobile Better Than Verizon

On February 4, 2011 By

I was in a T-Mobile last night being like, “Hey, how did my minutes plan get down to 500/month when it used to be unlimited, and now I owe you like $900 that I’d rather spend on mosquito nets for Egypt or whatever, right.”

Well, she was like, “Oooh, you care about saving the mosquitos. [...]

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My Dark Secret

On October 3, 2010 By

I have a Kobe post I want to put up so bad, but I think it’s gonna wait until Thursday.

In the meantime, @bohnlein said the nicest thing he’s ever said about me on Twitter.

@brianspaeth you’re so intelligent when not being a silly goose
1 minute ago via Twitter for iPhone

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How to Support a Love-Hate Relationship

On October 1, 2010 By

(This is my nephew in his Spider-Man muscle suit.)

I used to tell people that there’s generally a two-year limit on sharing friendship with me.

Either they will tire of my aloof nature, I’ll do something to make them have blood pressure problems, or some combination of both.

One girl is someone this happened [...]

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Would You Like A Tour of This Big Police Station?

On September 29, 2010 By

You may think this is just something that a police guy said to me last night after the incident I had at the store, but that’s not it at all.

I’m actually conducting a new experiment where I turn on the TV, listen to the first line of dialog I hear, and then write a [...]

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