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♦ Here’s a customer satisfaction survey from the pharmacy I use. I have no complaints — they’ve never handed me pravastatin instead of atorvastatin, which is all I ask of a pharmacy. 

Leftovers & links
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♦ Driving my usual route to the diner once a week, there are several blocks of construction. There’s an ordinary intersection where two streets cross each other, controlled by a traffic light, but the street running east-west is completely ripped up, closed off, and barricaded on both sides. … [read more]

Air conditioning is not a green technology. It devours huge amounts of energy, and there’s the laws of physics: To pump cool air into your house, the a/c pumps hot air into the world. Of … [read more]

For weeks, the road to the diner has been ripped up for construction, and I’m weary of driving on dirt, so this morning I drove a different route, approaching from the east instead of my ordinary north. … [read more]

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♦ What follows is my understanding of music. I’ve given it not much thought, but more than enough.

There are three kinds of music:

Real music is mostly pop ditties, after they’ve been heard so many thousand times that every note and vocal intonation is memorized, and listening becomes so rote that you can listen without listening.

There are so many good movies out there — a hundred years of old
movies, plus thousands of odd or artsy, foreign or forgotten or DIY
movies made just for the joy of making ’em — that if you only watch
whatever’s on Netflix or playing at the twentyplex, you’re missing out. ♦ … [read more]

This is a review of a 1997 documentary, Waco: Rules of Engagement, but I wrote it after also spending an afternoon at the downtown San Francisco library, researching and verifying enough of the film’s facts to convince me the documentary is legit. … [read more]

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♦ Monday night to Tuesday morning was bad. Sheer delirium. Unable to focus my mind when awake, sleeping for ten minutes at a time, never longer, and always with the same nonsensical dream on a loop. … [read more]

 Write Your Own Words #5
Zines on paper are unlike anything else in the world. They’re created and sold outside of mainstream publishing and marketing, so zines are hard to find, but most are worth the trouble. … [read more]