I live in a city where one can do 90% of the navigating using just the following streets:
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South Dakotans cannot drive. This has been discussed time and again among those of us in the orchestra who are not lifers or who have spent considerable time outside this otherwise fine state. But seriously, people here can't drive. Every day is Sunday at noon. Cars weave aimlessly between lanes without signals. Everyone drives like they're looking for their destination, not going to it. Painful stuff.
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The beauty of Guitar Hero is that it reminds you of so many killer songs that you accidentally forgot about. Now pardon me while I go air guitar the solos from Scorpions' ageless hit "Rock You Like a Hurricane."
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I spent my Thanksgiving overeating and recovering from a cold. Beats last year, where my calendar tells me I was rehearsing Shostakovich 5 and doing an evening performance of La Bohème. Props to America for respecting my holidays.
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Since Stephen Colbert's campaign has been fatally paralyzed by the WGA strike, I've decided to shift my support to Mike Huckabee. Frankly, if he's good enough for Chuck Norris, Ric Flair, and Ted Nugent, he's good enough for me. He's a former pastor, has only been married once, plays bass guitar in a rock band, supports arts education. Works for me. Also, he has TR's support, and TR and I historically support the same candidate, except for that time in '02 when I voted for Doyle even though he was working for McCallum. Once again, I'm sorry about that.
Perhaps if I'm lucky I can schlep into Iowa and do some work for him before the caucuses. It's as much of a say as I'll get in our nation's government, thanks to South Dakota's famous last-in-the-nation primary in June.
I'd still take John McCain though, if that were offered to me.
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My subscription to The Wall Street Journal started today, a little earlier than I was expecting. What's the over/under on when these papers will begin piling up under my bed like so many unread copies of The New York Times did during my freshman year of college?
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Am I un-American for thinking that a Christmas tree is too much damn work?
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I have to subscribe to the digital sports tier tomorrow so I can watch Thursday's Packers/Cowboys game on the DVR after my concert that night. At least here that package only sets me back three bucks a month.
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I finally bothered to do some checking in a relatively consistent environment, and it turns out my car's fuel efficiency is about 18% less when driving with an ethanol blend. No more of that corn sludge for my vehicle. My baby only eats premium. It'll end up being cheaper in the long run anyway. I'm all for "energy independence" and "not supporting the terrorists." Now if only someone would give me a biofuel that wasn't a total POS. In the meantime, if we could kill that $7 million annual subsidy here for ethanol blended into gasoline in South Dakota, maybe I could stop paying the sales tax on my friggin' produce and shredded wheat.
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Is there something we can all do together to launch Michael Bolton back to the forefront of pop culture? Just because, you know? He seems like a good guy and deserves more than to be the punch line of every mullet-based joke from the early 90's.
East/West, from North to South:And yet I feel oddly compelled to acquire a GPS unit. Gadget happy? Perhaps.
I-90, Benson, Russell, 10th/12th, 26th, 33rd, 41st, 49th, 57th, 69th
North/South, from East to West:
Sycamore, I-229, Cliff, Minnesota, Western, Kiwanis, Louise, I-29, Marion, Sertoma
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South Dakotans cannot drive. This has been discussed time and again among those of us in the orchestra who are not lifers or who have spent considerable time outside this otherwise fine state. But seriously, people here can't drive. Every day is Sunday at noon. Cars weave aimlessly between lanes without signals. Everyone drives like they're looking for their destination, not going to it. Painful stuff.
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The beauty of Guitar Hero is that it reminds you of so many killer songs that you accidentally forgot about. Now pardon me while I go air guitar the solos from Scorpions' ageless hit "Rock You Like a Hurricane."
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I spent my Thanksgiving overeating and recovering from a cold. Beats last year, where my calendar tells me I was rehearsing Shostakovich 5 and doing an evening performance of La Bohème. Props to America for respecting my holidays.
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Since Stephen Colbert's campaign has been fatally paralyzed by the WGA strike, I've decided to shift my support to Mike Huckabee. Frankly, if he's good enough for Chuck Norris, Ric Flair, and Ted Nugent, he's good enough for me. He's a former pastor, has only been married once, plays bass guitar in a rock band, supports arts education. Works for me. Also, he has TR's support, and TR and I historically support the same candidate, except for that time in '02 when I voted for Doyle even though he was working for McCallum. Once again, I'm sorry about that.
Perhaps if I'm lucky I can schlep into Iowa and do some work for him before the caucuses. It's as much of a say as I'll get in our nation's government, thanks to South Dakota's famous last-in-the-nation primary in June.
I'd still take John McCain though, if that were offered to me.
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My subscription to The Wall Street Journal started today, a little earlier than I was expecting. What's the over/under on when these papers will begin piling up under my bed like so many unread copies of The New York Times did during my freshman year of college?
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Am I un-American for thinking that a Christmas tree is too much damn work?
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I have to subscribe to the digital sports tier tomorrow so I can watch Thursday's Packers/Cowboys game on the DVR after my concert that night. At least here that package only sets me back three bucks a month.
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I finally bothered to do some checking in a relatively consistent environment, and it turns out my car's fuel efficiency is about 18% less when driving with an ethanol blend. No more of that corn sludge for my vehicle. My baby only eats premium. It'll end up being cheaper in the long run anyway. I'm all for "energy independence" and "not supporting the terrorists." Now if only someone would give me a biofuel that wasn't a total POS. In the meantime, if we could kill that $7 million annual subsidy here for ethanol blended into gasoline in South Dakota, maybe I could stop paying the sales tax on my friggin' produce and shredded wheat.
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Is there something we can all do together to launch Michael Bolton back to the forefront of pop culture? Just because, you know? He seems like a good guy and deserves more than to be the punch line of every mullet-based joke from the early 90's.
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I just can't help but notice that between you and TR, the guys who used to tell me that the Republican party needed to stop pandering from religious southerners are the same guys who now support a pastor-turned-politician from Arkansas.
(I don't have a strong affinity for any of the candidates, but I lean toward Giuliani. I'd like Romney a whole lot more if I thought he meant even half of what he says.)
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