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Daily Grumble

You know, it’s kinda cool when somebody you went to high school with tracks you down on Facebook 32 years after you’d completely forgotten they existed. But including a photo of you and your eleven grandkids is not the kind of “OMG, we’re OLD” reminder I needed today.

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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is the luckiest man in the world today, as we move into Michael Jackson’s Continuing Death: Day 2.

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You know, as much “fun” as it is to write a hundred or so posts about LGBT rights every week, I could totally do with a nice fat juicy right-wing evangelical scandal right about now. Marriage equality, DADT, fierce advocate….blah, blah, blah. Right now I feel like praying to the Black Catholic Priestess Brenda Lee for something really really Haggard-y.

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New York driver, we SAW you dump your fast food garbage into the middle of I-81 at milepost 213 in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, you thoughtless pig. If our rental had been equipped with a laser-guided missile, the road crews would be picking up your body parts as well as your fucking Arby’s trash. UPDATE: Some wacko “devoted and …

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I swear to Black Catholic Priestess Brenda Lee, I am so frickin’ sick of these snafus in our commenting system. As some of you have noticed by now, JS-Kit is having a really bad hair day at the moment. The post counters are totally off, but at least it seems like only a couple of comments have been eaten. BTW, …

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See me standing in from of Gilbert Baker’s fancy new March On Washington banner? Can you tell I’m dying a little inside? You see, the MOW is tentatively scheduled for October 10th, which happens to be my 50th birthday. Very cool, you say? No, no, dammit NO. About six months ago my generous and beloved family of friends decided that …

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It’s about 45 in my apartment this morning and the building’s boiler has been shut off for the “summer.”

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OK, yeah…Fringe is sort of a retread of X-Files and every show pretty much goes like this: FBI Agent: Wow, that is a freaky way to die!Old scientist: Actually, I invented that.FBI Agent: Oh, how do we cure it?Old Scientist: I forget!45 minutes later…Old Scientist: Wait, I remember! But last night’s season finale? Time travel to the World Trade Center …

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Hey record labels – thanks for the avalanche of weekly emails about your latest smash releases. But when I go to your YouTube clip and see “embedding disabled by request”…man, you people really don’t understand what blogging is all about.

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So I couldn’t sleep the other night and this show popped up on my channel guide. “Internal cleansing has swept across America.” Really? Has it? Blech. The pitchman was the most ghoulish looking creature, reminding me of the repulsive Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, who pitched their “life extension” crapola on Merv Griffin every other week for about a decade. …

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It was, of course, inevitable, but it came sooner than I expected. Sunday night at the Eagle, I met someone born in the ’90s. Security!

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It’s sort of mildly amusing that by a 5-1 margin today’s #1 outgoing link is to the story of the Florida pastor who was arrested for filming high school football players having sex. “What exactly did y’all expect to find there?” he asked with a blank expression.

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The fact that Molly Ringwald is now playing a grandmother-to-be on TV makes me feel rilly, rilly old. That’s all I got on that.

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Never had an allergy of any kind in my entire life. So why is that now, in my semi-dotage, am I getting completely stomped by “spring allergies”? Agony. And nothing helps, so far. :::stomps off hacking and wheezing:::

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You know, I was soooo careful not to overdo it this weekend. Twelve hours of sleep before the party. Fully hydrated for the duration. Ten hours of sleep Sunday night. But then last night I had to check out a new UES restaurant whose name starts and ends with a vowel. Four hours later I was Googling “food poisoning” and …

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OK, I gave it a few days. Really not liking the new Facebook. Really a lot. Upside: wasting much less time there!

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How lazy is it that I’m resisting changing to a cheaper cable provider because I have all the Time-Warner channels memorized? Not to mention that I can run their remote without my glasses. Sheesh.

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So I got stopped near the subway this morning by a college kid taking a survey for the United People For Democratic Freedom Liberty Justice Something-Something. He only had three questions and I did OK, but not great. Here’s the survey in case you want to test yourself. Pollster: Please name every elected official that represents you at any level …

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And the coldest NYC winter in five years rolls on. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s -22 or +80 where YOU are.

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