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three eggs short

threeeggsshort

About Me

i'm no chicken little. the sky is not falling. yet.

My Interests

crossing the road, occasionally to get to the other side; pondering that age-old question of which came first ...; scratching for chicken feed.

I'd like to meet:

anyone except the following: foghorn leghorn (yakkety yakkety yak); matthew fox and michael j. fox, among other foxes (and especially around henhouses); and colonel sanders (not exactly a friend of the working chicken).

Music:

meat puppets, curt kirkwood, shurman, tramps & thieves, scotty johnson, sand rubies/sidewinders, the suicide kings, the bodeans, jeff buckley, green on red, john butler trio, carter family, cracker, johnny cash, tom waits, kasey chambers, lucinda williams, warren zevon, loretta lynn, emmylou harris, woody guthrie, guster, steve earle, bobby bare jr., bob schneider, todd snider, gin blossoms, greyhound soul, social distortion, mike ness, mike patton, roger clyne & the peacemakers, steve larson, cross canadian ragweed, the dead milkmen, replacements, refreshments, dead or alive, one of these things is not like the others, over the rhine, chris knight, wilco, white stripes, flogging molly, the piersons, the pistoleros, the gourds, the clumsy lovers, shelby james & the crying shames, split lip rayfield, vices i admire

Movies:

cinema paradiso, millions, bull durham, field of dreams, the natural, snatch, little miss sunshine, napoleon dynamite, spinal tap, never been thawed, sideways

Television:

the office, the office re-runs, the office dvd sets, my name is earl, 30 rock, and entourage ... outside of those, tv for me is pretty much a waste of perfectly good time

Books:

the giant's house, housekeeping, pastoralia, who will run the frog hospital?, extremely loud and incredibly close, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, into thin air, memoirs of the incredible flying woman, into the wild, plus comics by dan clowes, cinders mcleod, art spiegelman, tony carrillo, scott bateman, tom tomorrow, lynda barry, and stickboy, among many others

Heroes:

rooster cogburn

My Blog

earth day post-mortem

so earth day was yesterday. ironically yesterday was also phoenix's first ozone alert day. to celebrate both occasions, macys ran a double-truck ad in the arizona republic. let me quote the ad copy fo...
Posted by three eggs short on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

no rest for the polygamist

so if you're a sister wife in a celestial marriage, it's not enough that you were married at age 15 to your great uncle twice removed on your mother's side, you gave birth to your requisite six childr...
Posted by three eggs short on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:05:00 PST

west’s most western what?

scottsdale, arizona, likes to bill itself as "the west's most western town" which is kind of funny because about five residents still ride horses, most of the ranches and horse farms have been bulldoz...
Posted by three eggs short on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

going loco for local, part whatever

so i’m four months into my new year’s resolution to eat more locally, reduce packaged food consumption, and clean up my grocery carbon footprint in general. the results are mixed:1. at f...
Posted by three eggs short on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:30:00 PST

contractor, contractor, wherefore art thou, contractor?

did you peeps miss me? i stepped away from the blog for a little while. like about three weeks. there was spring break. and spring break some more. it was a really long spring break--12 days tota...
Posted by three eggs short on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

spam a lot

spam emails entertain me. i save them for the juxtaposed randomness of the subject lines and the nonsensical kookiness of the sender names. here are a few that i’ve received recently, with a d...
Posted by three eggs short on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:42:00 PST

and don’t forget that in may the postal rates rise ...

i don’t mean to dog the usps because, you know, they take enough guff but i did have to deal with the postal service today all day long. when my mom died last summer, i filed a temporary forward...
Posted by three eggs short on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:05:00 PST

My Accidental Career

here's a poem from a collection i'm working on at present ...My Accidental Career I was inadvertently sent an e-mail from a woman I know who worksas a librarian at the local library,congra...
Posted by three eggs short on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:02:00 PST

joe the dog, r.i.p.

joe the good dog passed away today at the age of 8'ish. by all accounts he was born in phoenix. he spent his youth foraging on the streets and subsisting on refuse and rocks until he ran over to The...
Posted by three eggs short on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:01:00 PST

care about kerr cultural center?

hey, if you live in the phoenix area, take note: the kerr cultural center, that cool-io little adobe arts center in scottsdale, is up for historic preservation status and needs some support before som...
Posted by three eggs short on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST