dark looks

A selection of phrases which have flitted through my mind but not made their way into actual verbal expression for one reason or another today:

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Sunday morning discovered me slumped in front of the goggle box after a splendid bash, looking for something I could use to keep my eyes occupied for ten minutes. I found a curious factoid-laden thing about Dolly Parton, which as you would expect mentioned Dollywood. In my hypnagogic state, my mind wandered off after the [...]

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Weird Science made me think about ethics, not Kelly LeBrock.

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I’ve been reviewing the contents of my slab of old bits of writing. Most of it, of course, is nonsense (for that matter, so’s this), but life is in edit, and I had reason to think of the friend I wrote it for the other day, so here it is again. The original is dated [...]

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I am 72 hours from Denver and I have just come down with a stinking cold and I am stuffy and miserable and generally afflicted with manflu. A malison upon the common cold! Just doing my duty….

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(“Mystifying” by the way used as an adjective.) To pack, simply sort through your belongings and throw 50% of them out, until you have twice what you started with Whilst packing, you will suddenly remember your favourite shirt/blouse/t-shirt and, despite not having thrown a single piece of clothing out for the last 20 years, will [...]

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Since I am now doing absolutely everything at once, and with rather more success than in earlier, more laid-back, times… anyone know how this works? I know that tasks expand to fill the available time, that’s fine: what I’m interested is the corollary, in which efficiency seems to increase exponentially to a (linear) increase in [...]

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Acknowledged: have neglected this personality-dissemination forum more than usual lately. Have therefore spruced up the neighbourhood a bit. Yell if bits of it don’t work. It may look neat on the surface, but, swan-like, there’s nine kinds of activity going on under the surface. With that in mind, does anyone have any idea where this [...]

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