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By: cj

cj — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:29:13 +0000

Anything with turtles, glitter, the Doblo, the one about your mirror breaking secondary to hairdryer mishap, oh and anytime you elude to jumping your wife after going to a ball – and the description of you intermingling at the ball before you go home… and in-law negotiations. The horror stories you tell children. Krill.

By: francis s.

francis s. — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:53:31 +0000

Anything with cellos in it, or glitter, or tender self-doubt.

By: Suzette

Suzette — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:23:50 +0000

I like it when you write “feh” and “eh”. One is so forcefully opinionated and and one so completely laden with ennui.

By: Kirsten Marie

Kirsten Marie — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:42:50 +0000

Oh, and in my native language (Danish) “mig” is the word for “me”, which inevitably adds a somewhat existentialist angle :-)

By: Kirsten Marie

Kirsten Marie — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:39:29 +0000

I guess I’m one of the new regulars.

I don’t think any post in particular has stuck in my mind, but fragments of a lot have. What I like about you blog is not certain topics, but rather your style of writing, really, and perhaps that it tends to be not about things or events, but about your experience of them. Basically, I like your tone, you style, your pace.

By: Andrew Lane

Andrew Lane — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:33:25 +0000

Oh, and the new design is awesome.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:31:32 +0000

The one about how to apply floor wax with a turtle but that was really allegory for how the turtle spread its shit around. That was great, much better than I just made it sound. You should delete this comment so I don’t ruin it for anyone.

And the one about the zombies, and not relaxing just in case thereof, from around a year ago. These are both old, old posts, but ones that stick in my head.

By: novala

novala — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:55:15 +0000

Every story where I am mentioned, of course.

By: novala

novala — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:53:50 +0000

The hedgehogs.

By: R.

R. — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:50:50 +0000

Yes Gamma, but also Beta going to France, Alpha calling you for Krippen stuff, grunion plumbing problems (particularly because I’m from California…where I have parents in their 80’s, so I had to close the window when you talked about your dad…don’t know what happened. Always go to How to learn Swedish to open your page, another superstition).

By: novala

novala — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:46:02 +0000

The Mormon-story

By: the other Tim again

the other Tim again — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:40:34 +0000

Oh, and the Chaos calculator post and anything from back in the “raising hell” period.

By: Not that tim, another Tim

Not that tim, another Tim — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:38:59 +0000

Mig, all your stuff is great. I especially like a post from a while back where you went to a ball with Alpha. I feel very self concious in crowds as well.

As much as we all like you, the real star of the metamorphosis show is Gamma. Anything with Gamma is funny and we all love her.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:54:55 +0000

I guess it’s in the nature of the form that the new entries tend to dislodge the old ones from your head. Like I was thinking, what was that one from a while ago that described a whole morning in one long sentence and then ended really neatly, then I realised that was “Intention” from only a couple of weeks ago.

Also:
– “How to play the cello”
– Dick Cheney and his collection of poo
– the one where i think you were visiting your dad in hospital, and about the things you wanted to ask him, whether he minded that neither of you had “ever amounted to anything”. I think it was so touching because it’s one of those basic father/son things.

By: Susanna

Susanna — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:07:01 +0000

Things that have stuck? Gamma’s party, the one that left the house looking like fairies had gone to war, leaving sparkly stuff everywhere. Anything about deer. Family related stuff.

Lots of things, really.

Everything, actually.