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query.

i had my final narrative journalism class last night. if i get a job in the new year, i'll take another class cuz this shit is better than therapy. (and i loves me therapy. ) our final exercise was to put together …
looking for my moo shu.

we trekked into las vegas' chinatown today for what my mom promised was "the best" chinese food around here. i should note that in our family, my mom is famous for jinxing each and every chinese restaurant she has ever …
vegas is weird.

we flew out of town this afternoon to visit my mom in her new house just outside of vegas. her last house was only a few blocks away from this new house, and the floor plans are nearly identical. the big differences, a…
geeky city planning moment of the day

it took coming here, to visit A, to remember how small towns can embody all the good things about new urbanism, even though that term doesn't seem appropriate to describe these authentic older small towns. as i type thi…
sweeping generalization

this is one of my favorite stories from the Onion newspaper. My absolute favorite line is that one there at the bottom: "'My final piece of expert advice,' Peavy added, 'is that all of you people should j…
turns out i *do* know a thing or two

every time i start a new job, i go through this awkward phase where it seems like i'm just feeling my way blindly in the dark. and usually somewhere along the line, 6 to 8 months into it, i realize that i've somehow man…
nailing jello to the wall

here's the symbol that i propose be used to refer to the FasTracks commuter rail station formerly known as 40/40 (so named because it was proposed to be located at the intersection of 40th Street and 40th Avenue): i wa…