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Freezing

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Not as good as “First Fruits”

Penelope Evans is the master at writing first-person characters with serious character flaws who are living in denial and self-delusion. This one has Stewart, a morgue photographer, obsessed with the corpse of a beautiful drowning victim. Following his obsession leads him to unravel the mystery of her identity, all while being shunned by everyone he comes in contact with. Stewart is a serious outcast who everyone treats as a monster.

It’s not as good as “First Fruits.”
After a while Stewart’s naivete gets a little tired, and conclusions which come as a great suprise to him will have been guessed by the reader dozens of pages beforehand. Also, it takes Evans about 100 pages to really get the story moving. Read First Fruits instead if you are curious about Penelope Evans, or The Wasp Factory if you want another story about outcasts living in delusional denial.

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Japanese Social Experiment

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Isn’t this how a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes start? Or Steven King stories?

McDonald’s to recall apple pies laced with chemical
McDonald’s Co., (Japan) Ltd. has vowed to recall apple pies from 15 prefectures after finding that they were laced with an unauthorized chemical, but most of the pies have apparently already been consumed.
The company has offered to recall 448,560 apple pies that were produced in Beijing and sold in Japan between July 18 and last Friday. But consumers have apparently eaten all of them.

All those people are going to turn into zombies now.

KSJS rules

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Listening to some late night college radio, waiting for my friend to come on KALX (90.7 FM Berkeley) … but until then I’m listening to “Vision” on KSJS (90.5 San Jose). Vision plays some nifty clubby ambient and always sounds very mellow and approachable… She is also very entertaining to call up because she is always in kind of a zany mood and will tell you “the rest of that album is ASS!” when you’re on the phone. She just now played us a really bizarre Mazzy Starr remix by Richard X called “Into U”.

Think I Have A Problem

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Went to Fantasia today with Shac and OJ to get my boba fix… I like Fantasia because they have the best pearls, with Tea Era running a close second. I get to the counter, and I whip out my “frequent boba” card- oh wait, that’s not it, it’s this one… no wrong again, it’s this one… I realise I have 5 different pearl tea cards, each for a different place.

Shut up! YOU have the problem!

There was an asian girl there with her dad, and she had a cool rave shirt on- I asked her where she got it and she looked at me blankly. Like totally blankly; looking into her eyes there were no lights on at all. Totally dull. Her father says in broken english, she doesn’t speak english. So I ask HIM where her shirt came from. No, he says, he doesn’t speak english either. So I ask, what language does he speak? Japanese? Yes, he says, Japanese. Okay, I say, in Japanese, her shirt where from bought was? He looks kind of goggle-eyed. Uh? Her shirt, I say. Where her shirt? he says. Yes…? Oh, uh… Japan he says. Then they both run away. Help! This guy cracked the code and was trying to force us to be social!!!

Don Need No Scrubs

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Albertson’s sells scrubs now in different colors. It’s a fashion statement. The statement is “LOOK I’M COVERED IN MEDICAL WASTE.”

What is the deal with people wearing scrubs as streetclothes? Are they pretending to be medical personelle? They look like they are wearing pajamas.

To all of you who are wearing scrubs because they are your actual work clothes and you just got off work: change clothes please BEFORE YOU LEAVE WORK. There is a reason there are locker rooms at the hospital. You are exposing the rest of us to a huge risk of contagion. Haven’t you seen “Outbreak?” Now go get changed before I get Cuba Gooding Jr. and the militant wing of the CDC on your ass.