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Garrett

About Me

I write things.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The guys at Free Darko . And Dahlia Lithwick.

My Blog

The not-so-perfect present tense

"She rode": Correct"She has ridden": Correct"She has rode": INCORRECTI really don't know how that happened  or why I didn't notice it until five minutes after we went to press. From now on, whenever ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:41:00 GMT

Second pick

I'd have liked a shot at Oden (instantly the Sonics' best center since Jack Sikma), but Durant's great too. Not even the Sonics can screw this one up.Edit: Man, I feel old ... Edit #2: Wow. I'd forgo...
Posted by on Tue, 22 May 2007 17:58:00 GMT

Hate the rump, love the "Rump Shaker"

According to this test, I've got mild subconscious biases against fat people and Native Americans, but I view Abe Lincoln and George W. Bush as interchangeable. And my brakes went out as I was driving...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 20:08:00 GMT

Fast food: Ads vs. Reality

About to make a fast food run? Look here. Then again, I swore off fast food after both the book and movie versions of "Fast Food Nation," and I still had a 7-Layer Crunchy Wrap Supreme combo yesterday...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:26:00 GMT

Felix

Nine innings, one hit, no runs, six strikeouts, two walks, and one more reason to hate J.D. Drew. All in all, a good night.
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:33:00 GMT

Karl Rove: Less of a bastard than the biggest bastard imaginable

OK, guys, we can probably relax.Before I got Josh Marshall involved in this, I figured I should Google some other recent album covers to strengthen my case. I began with another fourth-quarter album f...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:14:00 GMT

How to become paranoid, in three easy steps

1. Get a bulletin from Will with a link to Karl Rove rapping.2. Note the parallels to Bush I campaign strategist Lee Atwater playing the blues (check out the first 20 seconds).3. Do a Google image sea...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:51:00 GMT

The 2007 Mariners: Doomed

The Washington Post is reporting that the Mariners are trading Chris Snelling and Emiliano Fruto to the Washington Nationals for 31-year-old second baseman Jose Vidro. I don't know much about Fru...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:37:00 GMT

Throw transport down the well

This isn't my car, but it might as well be.One of my tires was starting to go flat today, so I stopped off at a gas station to fill it back up to the customary 35 psi. A couple hundred yards down the ...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:47:00 GMT

I think the comments are broken

Here are the first five comments attached to my crab apple letter in the pictures: September 18, 2006 7:17 PMAnother great picture E-D. The hips definitely don't lie. Lol ;-)September 18, 2006 7:17 PM...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:18:00 GMT