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12 years ago in me, Me, ME! by Mikeorren

10 entries for December 31st:

facebook (feed #2) 12:38am Mike loves his crazy wiffles. There. I said it.
facebook (feed #2) 12:40am Mike has a timebomb in his mind, mom.
googlereader (feed #8) 12:54am Boondoggling the Inauguration
googlereader (feed #8) 8:41am "Huffington Post’s model of journalism isn’t really that radical"
googlereader (feed #8) 9:04am We have audio!
googlereader (feed #8) 9:27am N.C. governor says newspapers’ job "is to be nice to me"
googlereader (feed #8) 10:28am The return of the pop-up ad (when will they ever learn?)
lastfm (feed #4) 11:02am Scrobbled 11 songs on Last.fm. (Show Details)

  • Eastwood – Breathe
  • Eastwood – Giving Up, Giving In
  • Eastwood – Lawman’s Curse
  • Eastwood – Let Me Be Your Man
  • Eastwood – Natalie
  • Eastwood – Not Too Late
  • Eastwood – Only Remember The Good Times
  • Eastwood – Right Place Wrong Time
  • Eastwood – They’ll Never Take Me Alive
  • Old 97’s – Early Morning
  • Old 97’s – The Easy Way
googlereader (feed #8) 12:48pm Why media companies are hosed
googlereader (feed #8) 4:16pm Presses stopped
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48m 1368225216808239114

I just turned on my smoker from the bed. What a time to be alive.

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18h 1367962688819781632

Realtime video of me, responding to my state's inane proposed social media censorship legislation:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/03/05/abbott-texas-republicans-want-to-prohibit-political-censorship-by-social-media-platforms/

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Overly bothered by three incorrect but inconsequential facts in a (nonlocal) music article, I'm going to call it a day and go seek some perspective in a bottle of @BalconesWhisky.

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22h 1367906242048499716

Unexpected ways the return is going to be weird:

Just dropped into my office for the first time in months to discover a holiday gift as well as a Christmas card from someone who is no longer alive.

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mikeorren avatarMike Orren@mikeorren·
5 Mar 1367873085026799616

Absolutely searing column by @SharonFGrigsby:

The virus is still real and still decimating lives.

Wear a 😷. Get the 💉.

If you don't (with microscopically limited exceptions), you're a selfish SOB who has no business in society.

Lucy Palacios, right, 23, comforts her mother, Miriam, as she holds her 2-month-old grandson, Isaiah, at their home in northeast Dallas Tuesday. The Palacios family has faced a double loss of loved ones from COVID-19.

‘Who do I go see? My husband, my daughter, the baby?’ In a single week, COVID ripped apart this Dallas family

Isaiah Palacios is two months old. He does not know that his mother is dead. He is blessedly unaware that his grandfather also died a few weeks after ...

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