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Here are some of the Dallas Nightclubs I am researching. I'm looking for addresses, ownership history, years of existence, and notable stories. A lot of this information is available online, but I'm interested in any firsthand accounts. If you have any information about any of these nightclubs, please contact me at mattbucher@gmail.comtable { }td { padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px;

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I haven't done anything with this blog in years, but I'm glad it still exists. It's like a snapshot of where I was on the web in 2005-2007.There are several posts I still return to and several that rank high in google results.One of my favorites is this post about pre-decimal British currency:http://annularsystems.blogspot.com/2006/02/pre-decimal-british-currency.htmlCheck out this comment there:

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mohawk Originally uploaded by mattbucher Five weeks old

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Stevie Ray Vaughn statue Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Jordan, Matt, Henry, and Stevie Ray Vaughn

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Henry Wallace

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Uhhhh, what????? Originally uploaded by mattbucher. growing by the day....

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Baby Bucher - 41 weeks Originally uploaded by mattbucher. He should be here any day now. Thursday night at the latest!

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This is a brilliant snapshot of life on YouTube.

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I'm reluctant to even link to this because I don't want anyone else to know this great thing exists, but here: TV-Links. Watch your favorite TV shows (24, Lost, Sopranos, anything!) for free on your computer.

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A story in seven parts.

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The Problem with HellApokatastasisCarlton Pearsonaustinuu.org

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This is at Erin & Ed's wedding 10/28/06 in Princeton, NJ. Sorry there is no audio (it was Moon River) and I'm not such a great videographer.

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Currently for sale on ebay, just three grand.

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17 weeks pregnant Originally uploaded by mattbucher. This was last weekend at a wedding in Princeton. Now the pregnancy is almost half over!

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Birthday Dog Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Go Here:http://www.westlynnvet.com/pet_of_the_month.htmTo vote for Riley as pet of the month (at our vet's website). If she wins pet of the year, we get free dog food for a year! It's kind of like american idol but with pictures of animals (oh wait....).She recently turned 1 year old and the only party hats at target were Dora the Explorer.

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Philippe Sollers / The ParkHerman Melville / Moby DickMeg Wolitzer / The PositionJudy Budnitz / If I Told You OnceShirley Hazzard / The Great FireMichael Cox / The Meaning of NightColson Whitehead / The Colossus of New YorkThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (5th Edition)

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Fichte died of typhus at the age of 52.Karl Marx had a long battle with pleurisy, but still made it to 64.Wittgenstein died of prostate cancer just after he turned 60.Stephen Crane died at 28.Jack London barely made it to 40.

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I have to call out this podcast as incredible. If you aren't a fan yet, get on it!FILMSPOTTING

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- Barry Lyndon- Syriana- Rent- Friends With Money- Freaks & Geeks disc 1- V for Vendetta- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!- Love Liza- The Last Picture Show

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Sonogram - 8 weeks Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Now a baby shape is starting to form.

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FazendasSteampunkPeople Who Survived Assassination AttemptsDenver BearsTwo of UsGuthrie, Oklahoma (Guthrie was founded during the Land Run of 1889, growing from a population of zero to 10,000 in a single day.)"There's No Disgrace Like Home"DejimaMary Chesnut

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The all-time funniest SNL skit.The acting is flawless, incomparable to SNL's current incarnation.

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Kings of Infinite Space by Jim HynesOn Beauty by Zadie SmithThe Method Actors by Carl ShukerRising Up and Rising Down (1 vol. compilation) by William T. VollmannMawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt

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Yaris2 Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Here is our new Toyota Yaris. We tried to find a Honda Fit, but there were none to be had for miles around. In fact, one waiting list for them stretched until November. We also had trouble finding the Yaris in stock. This was really the only one we could find, but we really wanted something that could get close to 40 mpg. I felt like writing my

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I'm supposed to be reading The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake for book club, but I am just not that taken by the stories. I can't get into the collection because it seems affected and a lot of the prose is really overblown and these are supposed to be mood pieces rather than plot heavy so I'm just not digging it. I am still reading Upton Sinclair's Oil! I'm at "The Killing" now and the plot is

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I just realized that the guy who played Lazlo Holyfeld in Real Genius played Uncle Rico in Napolean Dynamite: Jon Gries.

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"All of our lives since the fourth grade we've been told 'Your senior year when y'all get on varsity, that's y'alls year.'"

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I am trying to compile some facts related to one of Dallas's most colorful figures: Bennie Bickers. Maybe someday this will be a scholarly paper or a piece of amateur history or something, but right now it's just a collection of facts (and theories) the really interest me. Here are a few:- Bennie Bickers owned the University Club from 1953 to 1962.- The University Club was about a block away from

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Whenever we leave the house for a couple of hours we try to turn on the iTunes so that our dog doesn't get too lonely. She prefers softer stuff like Beth Orton, Elliot Smith, and some jazz and classical, but lately I've turned on some audiobooks of John Updike short stories. According to iTunes play count, she's heard the story "Killing" twenty times now. So, if she's feeling a bit melancholy or

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Surfing.html Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be FiredBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: April 24, 2006, Filed at 9:26 a.m. ETNEW YORK (AP) -- Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused

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1. A History of Violence. Just got around to watching it this weekend and was very very underwhelmed. The ending was dumb (the killer dad sits down at the table), the violence was not that graphic (at least not on the scale of something like Saving Private Ryan), and the plot was just weak (did anyone really think this would be a film about mistaken identity? No, it was clear that "Tom Stall" was

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One thing I really hate about teh internets is this self-congratulatory hipster egoism of getting there first--the authenticity of being a 28 year-old "oldtimer." I'm noticing it more and more, on a large scale. A couple of examples (out of the million or so I could dig up):1. From: http://a.wholelottanothing.org"I started using flickr back when it was a flash-enhanced backchannel chat at etech

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Haven't posted in about a month, mainly because we just bought a house.Pics: http://flickr.com/photos/mbb/sets/72057594074773603That's the other folk's furniture in there. We've just started moving some of our stuff over so that explains the total absence of books in these pics. Now the eternal list of home-repair projects commences...

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1. fecklessness2. Cold Spring Harbor3. mollycoddle4. Katwijk Aan Zee

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MONTGOMERY BURNS: "You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post haste. And none of your usual boobery!""Hello, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by Aeromail. Hmm...am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"Rob (High Fidelity): What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films, these things matter. Call me

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Our lil brainiac Originally uploaded by mattbucher. We hear a book fall off the bookshelf and find that our dog has opened the pages of "Ulysses" (and she's not trying to eat the paper). She's also been known to bark aggressively if Oprah comes on the TV. I guess she hates what Oprah did to James Frey. And yes, that's duct tape on the book.

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chocolate bar2 Originally uploaded by mattbucher. shipped from NYC to Austin just in time. Nothing can make you forget real estate woes quicker than some truffles. Highlights include the pb&j truffle, the key lime pie truffle, and the kahlua truffle.

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cupcakes! Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Did I mention that my wife used to be the cupcake froster at the famous Magnolia Bakery??! Well did I??

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BB Originally uploaded by mattbucher. If I had cattle, this would be my brand.

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1 pound = 20 shillings 1 pound = 240 pence 1 pound = 1 sovereign 1 crown = 5 shillings 1 half crown = 2 shillings, six pence 1 florin = 2 shillings 1 shilling = 12 pence 1 penny = 4 farthings 1 groat = 4 pence SLANG TERMS shilling = "hog" or "deaner" half crown = "tosheroon" sixpence = "sprowsie" or "tanner"

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I've always liked this site English CutHow to buy a bespoke suit:http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000016.html

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We subscribe to:New York Times (Sunday)New York MagazineThe New YorkerHarper'sVanity FairThe AtlanticBookForumUS WeeklyVogue LuckyTexas Monthly

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Four jobs I've had:1. editor2. ditch digger 3. copywriter4. house painterFour movies I can watch over and over:1. The Big Lebowski2. Office Space3. Bottle Rocket4. Ocean's ElevenFour places I've lived:1. New York, NY (Brooklyn and Manhattan)2. Denver, CO3. Austin, TX4. Tyler, TXFour TV shows I love:1. The Dog Whisperer2. Six Feet Under3. Baseball Tonight4. No ReservationsFour places I've

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In one verse of one song, Nelly manages to rhymeensemblemambocomboCaboTae-boVolvoDiabloRhinoIs there a song that consists entirely of end-rhymes?

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One of the coolest events to occur in Austin every year is the SXSW film, music, and interactive festivals. This year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival features a keynote "conversation" between two of our favorite bloggers: dooce and kottke. The problem is, the rest of the festival doesn't really interest me and a single badge costs $275. So, for the wife and I to attend this one lecture

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One of my New Year's resolutions is to consume less media in order to write/create more, but I appear to be failing (see Netflix mention below). Maybe I will post a short story soon.Reading/recently read:Black Hole by Charles Burns / This is the guy who draws the cover of The Believer every month. This is an awesome book, part teen horror comedy, part sci-fi thriller, part Daniel Clowes. The

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Murray=Sutter Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Bill Murray was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.

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electrical fire Originally uploaded by mattbucher. We had a small electrical fire the other day.

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When I see a couple of kids And guess he's fucking her and she'sTaking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know this is paradiseEveryone old has dreamed all their lives---Bonds and gestures pushed to one side Like an outdated combine harvester, And everyone young going down the long slideTo happiness, endlessly. I wonder ifAnyone looked at me, forty years back, And thought, That'll be the life;No God

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Dr. Monkey Originally uploaded by mattbucher. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbb/sets/1672158/Went to this cool antique store during the holidays and saw everything from a human skull to a Kenny Rogers photo montage.

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For some reason, the Kansas City Star thought it necessary to give us a 1500-word piece on athletes flipping the bird. I can just picture the reporter pitching this to his editor: "Uhhh... I got this great idea about a pressing issue in the world of sports. Steroids? Salary Cap? No, sir. The Bird."

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DFW - Infinite Jest Originally uploaded by mattbucher. I don't have a scanner, but I do have a digital camera and this weekend I had some time on my hands so I decided to take shots of a few of my signed books. I discovered that many of the books I've had signed were not signed on the title page so that's difficult to communicate in a single photo and some of the signatures are pretty

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LIONESSSSS Originally uploaded by mattbucher. The paw, the maw, the look: sheer beauty.

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1. I am slowly working my way through Volume 1 of Emma Goldman's "Living My Life," which is incredibly well written and informative. I'm going to start looking for volume 2 soon, but I am taking my time with this one, about one chapter per night.2. Am also taking my time going through "The Good Earth." I read it a long time ago but had absolutely no perspective on it and couldn't even recall the

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This guy who runs the Million Dollar Homepage is actually pretty close to his goal of raising a million bucks. As of right now he's at $828,200. Evidently he got a lot of press in November (including the Wall Street Journal) and the spillover should carry him over the $1M mark. It's obviously a fad marketing scheme, but it's still a pretty impressive accomplishment. What got him going was that

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Riley Here is a picture of our new puppy, Riley. She is a sheltie, eight weeks old, and still learning to pee outside. All the pictures are here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbb/sets/1459664/

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finger1 Originally uploaded by mattbucher. I got this new super-sharp vegetable peeler with razorlike teeth and after about ten seconds of use, I promptly cut off a huge chunk of my left index finger. I couldn't get it to stop bleeding (a spouting geyser) so I had to go to the emergency room and have them apply this white goo (liquid stitches). The pain was so intense I nearly passed out,

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I'll probably be directing your attention to Flickr a little more frequently since we just got a new Nikon Coolpix 4600.Here are a few random pictures of the bookshelves:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbb/sets/1405706/

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Books on the nightstand:- Time and Again by Jack Finney (awesome book about a guy who's selected by a secret government agency to participate in a time-travel experiment which involves him living in the Dakota Apartment building like it's 1882 until suddenly he goes outside one day and it is 1882. Really, this is a cult novel that needs to be revived. Also, it's filled with pseudo-factual photos.

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RILEY-littermates Originally uploaded by mattbucher. Somewhere in this litter is our new puppy, Riley. We are going to pick her up in two weeks. Right now she lives in Stillwell, Oklahoma. One of the reasons we left New York is that we couldn't have a dog in our apartment building. All that's about to change...

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Perusing (part of) the baseball card collection. the piece de resistance: 1955 Roberto Clemente RC

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books recently bought (past 10 days)   Libra - Don Delillo (1st Edition at goodwill!) East of Eden - John Steinbeck (love it) Steps - Jerzy Kozinski (like eating razor blades) The Lower Depths - Maxim Gorky (won't read it, but it was $2 and looks cool on the shelf) The Journals of Kurt Cobain (interesting for about 15 minutes, also looks cool) The Prentice Hall Reader (for work) Leon Rooke -

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http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/  I love this site. It shows you the front page of about 500 newspapers worldwide, everyday. I look at it almost everyday and I find it to be a more efficient way of seeing what's going on (or what is considered Front Page News) in dozens of American cities than bookmarking individual news sites; and it's more visually appealing than any RSS or News

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Speechwriters.Today I was reading Lincoln's second inaugural address (here) and it struck me that how, unlike GWB's second inaugural (here), Lincoln did not bother to mention a single thing about electoral politics or "reaching out" to supporters of his opponent. He had bigger things on his plate--like the Civil War and slavery (Bush had Iraq and that's not small). Then it struck me that Abraham

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Basket Case by Carl HiaasenHiaasen is one of my go-to beach reads, but I had to abandon this one when he tried to write about a "teenage hacker." It was the poorest character description committed to paper since Dave Eggers wrote about a dog.Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick FlynnThis memoir was published to much acclaim last year but I am just now getting around to reading it in

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This year's Hands on a Hardbody contest has been stopped due to a contestant's bizarre suicide early this morning:http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3854138 It wasn't clear whether Vega walked away during or just before an official break for contestants, most of whom were away from the contest site when Vega killed himself.Witnesses said Vega went directly to a Kmart across the street, threw

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Not sure that I was ever cut out to be a blogger, but now the updates might come even farther apart than ever before. I got this awesome new job (here) editing high school literature textbooks and it will probably a while before I get back into posting anything here. It's great, though. This is one of the few jobs I've even heard of that rewards being a complete polymath. I've alredy wished that

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I've really had the chance lately to do quite a bit of reading. I finished "Oh the Glory of it All" and I thought it was actually pretty good. I still have a hard time feeling sorry for guys like Wilsey and Eggers who are basically loaded with cash when their tribulations occur, but I guess everyone still feels pain and unloved sometimes. [For some reason Blogger does not give me the "add a link"

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http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/080805kvuelibrary-cb.530c5d57.html"A local community library has been dealing with censorship questions. At issue: a magazine targeted toward homosexuals and whether it should be pulled from the shelves of the Wells Branch Community Library.Library officials say they received a complaint about the magazine "Out.""""The magazine's not coming out of the

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I'm starting to realize that I'm a better reader of blogs than writer of blogs. I am lazy. I have been reading a lot lately, though. Here are a few things I've finished or almost finishedRavelstein by Saul BellowGreat book. There is almost no plot, but Bellow's descriptions of Ravelstein are so compelling and interesting that I couldn't put this down. Ravelstein himself comes off as cultlike and

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Probably the last couple for a while (unless I run into Wes Anderson or Matthew McConaughey in Austin).On the day we moved out of Manhattan, we had a couple of pretty awesome sightings. Early that morning, as we were walking from our apartment to the subway to pick up the moving truck, we walked past Alton Brown, host of Good Eats. He was holding a cup of coffee and was walking back into the

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Well, we are all moved in to our new place in Austin, but we don't have the internet connection set-up yet. The earliest Time Warner could promise us is Tuesday of next week. In the meantime we are using these public computers in the main building of our apartment complex. Also, we're quickly realizing that we can barely do anything here without a Texas driver's license or a 512 phone number.

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I'm in Memphis right now. It's the middle of our long move to Austin. We did about 1100 miles in two days and it was smooth sailing almost the whole way. I had biscuits and gravy for breakfast in Roanoke, Virginia, yesterday and it was one of those great We're-Not-in-Kansas-Anymore moments. We drove through a lot of torrential rain in Eastern Tennessee, but we've stayed ahead of schedule and had

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3237063More than three months after the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles cannot be executed, Texas Gov. Rick Perry today commuted 28 death sentences to life in prison for inmates who were under 18 when they committed capital murder.The Supreme Court forced the commutations with its March ruling that executing juveniles violates the Eighth

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Q: What would a group of Germans refer to as "a violation of basic constitutional rights"?A: http://tinyurl.com/7udyy (Reuters UK)

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sombrero Originally uploaded by mattbucher. May I introduce to you the world's finest sunblock: the sombrero.The other day, when New York City felt like the inside of a toaster oven, I saw a older fellow walking down the street in a sombrero. Not in an ironic fashion, but in a sincere, blocking-the-sun fashion. This made me want to wish for a return of the Urban Sombrero.

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Pretty much all of my books are in boxes right now, but I still have library books.The Book of Lazarus by Richard GrossmanEvidently this is part of a trilogy (although the only other volume I see is "The Alphabet Man"), but I picked it up because 1) it was published by FC2, 2) it's blurbed by William Vollmann and Denis Cooper, and 3) it had pictures in it. The book has elements of that

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Ken tagged me with this one, so here goes:Total number of books I own/owned:Around 3000. This includes the books Jordan owned when we got married and merged our book collections (hey, we both work in publishing--free books are pretty much the only perk). However, I've never been able to fully unleash all of my books onto shelves due to a lack of space in NYC apartments. Hopefully our upcoming

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Tonight I'm heading up to that cathedral in the Bronx, the Vatican of Baseball, to welcome home the Yanks from a brutal road trip. Last Friday night must be the low point of the season for them: they played awful and heartless, practically conceding to the Cardinals before the first pitch of the game. It will be interesting to see what moves the Yankees make before the trading deadline (or even

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Even though I have Gmail now and love it, I have kept up a Hotmail account out of habit. Mostly all I get there is spam, but one thing that has bothered me about the type of spam I've received in the past year or two is that it is almost always addressed to (or includes in the subject line) someone named "Roderick Dowden." I'm sure this is just some schmuck chosen at random by a spammer to be the

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Gifts for me and you from the National Swine Registry: http://www.nationalswine.com/shopnsr/shopnsr.html

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Evidently, I am mainly using this blog to keep track of my celebrity sightings. Fine. However, this past weekend NYC hosted Book Expo America, and since I didn't really need to be around our booth too much on Saturday, I went trolling the floor, looking for even more celebrity/"author" sightings. Thursday evening, on our way to the BookForum party at Opus 22, we saw Malcolm Gladwell and his hair

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Sunday night, Helena Christensen, walking down Greenwich Street with her husband (an actor) and daughter. She had a hood on and was speaking to her husband in Danish. She's all over the neighborhood now that she's opened a new boutique on Hudson Street (Butik).This morning, on the way to work, former Senator Bob Kerrey. I walk right by a lot of New School buildings and he's President of The New

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Yesterday, eating at the sidewalk cafe portion of Florent, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Eating a pair of salads, drinking wine, everyone else on the sidewalk completely oblivious to her shocking red hair.Last Saturday, Mario Batali, in his typical uniform, walking down Waverly Place, all by his lonesome, towards Babbo. I gave him the head-fake, like "hey, what's up," but alas, he did not

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Donald Trump and I agree on few things, but I very much like his proposal to rebuild the world trade center essentially as it was. I know that he is a showman and is using this to get ratings for tonight's Apprentice finale, but it's not his idea anyway--people have seriously talked about doing this since September 12 of 01.Imagine you live in Colorado Springs. Everyday you wake up and look out

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College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital AgeStudents attending the University of Texas at Austin will find something missing from the undergraduate library this fall. Books. By mid-July, the university says, almost all of the library's 90,000 volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space for a 24-hour electronic information commons, a fast-spreading phenomenon

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Overview: I'm tired of people bitching about gas prices.Why: It's a few bucks, dude. Imagine if you had a hybrid or a Chevy Cavalier (something with a 10 gallon gas tank). I know that those cars aren't dirt cheap and that insurance can be pricey, etc., but gas is almost a non-factor with them. If the price of gas has doubled in the past 6 years, then you are paying roughly $10 more per tank.

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Some people only read one book at a time, but I try to read four or five books simultaneously and see what grabs me that day. Usually I try to read one new novel, one nonfiction book, a classic (as I define it), and something I've already read.Diamonds are Forever, by Ian FlemingI'm a big fan of the James Bond novels, but I haven't even seen most of the films. When Penguin reissued all of the

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So a couple of weeks ago I read this book Rats by Robert Sullivan. Most of the book is about the author observing rats in an alley in lower Manhattan. I have observed some rats in the lower part of my apartment building, so I was riveted. Sullivan says that an interesting part of his book tour was that dozens of people would come up to him after readings (or maybe even during) and tell him their

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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"--Jack Kerouac, On the RoadI

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Well, he might only be a celebrity to me, but walking home from work today I saw Harry Mathews. It was the corner of Sixth Avenue and 11th Street (near the New School Lang Building) and he was carrying a newspaper. I recognized him because I saw him read at DU in 1996, and he has a distinctive face. I should have stopped and said, "Whoa! Harry Mathews, famous American writer! I can't believe it!"

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Ugh. Usually after I rant about something (aloud, at a party, towards unconcerned people), I threaten: I should get a blog. Well, here I am you bastards. Take that. I will try not to rant.Future topics: why my fantasy baseball team is currently sucking, everything I have ever thought about Infinite Jest, questioning why reading your own blog posts is like listening to a recording of your own

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