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It's like jolly old St. Nick never left!

 

Thanks to my super-thoughtful across-the-alley neighbors, I can be reminded well into February of the joy that Christmas brings. The dead, brown joy. Salud! 

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Look... Shiny!

Hey, Tumblr followers (and there’s 23 of you, much to my amazement)! How you doing? Good, good. So I… Uh huh. Okay, look, I… Right. I… Look, I didn’t ask for your life stories, okay?

So if you like what I’ve infrequently been doing here, and again, against all odds, almost two dozen of you do, would you consider following my other Tumblr site, Big Questions? It’s a daily vlog detailing my 45-day campaign to get a Web video pilot funded, and you’ll be privy to all of it — the thrilling highs, the sludgy lows, and that gristly bit right in the middle. You know, the one that always gets stuck in your molars.

It’s rank self-promotion to ask, and I know this, but these are rank times we live in. So thanks.

Big Questions goes multi-platform

Hi, Tumblr. I know you think I’ve been… well, absent for a while. I know, I know, you think I’ve been spending too much time running around with Twitter, and that Twitter’s shallow. Look, me and Twitter… ? That was totally a summertime thing. What can I say, I have a thing for short girls. But now I’m back, baby, and this time I mean it when I say I’ll never leave you. …What’s that? You say I’ve got something to “promote”? What, you mean like Big Questions, my web video pilot that I’m trying to get funded over at Kickstarter? Or the daily Big Questions vlog I’ve set up to keep supporters updated on the project’s progress? Or the Twitter feed I’ve set up for the Tumblr vlog? Baby. Baby. You know you’re the only one for me. You know I love you, Posterous… Wait. What?

What?... Yes. No. Maybe. I'm sorry, I just want so badly to smack you.

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AP headline or Flannery O'Connor story?

Insane by Bill Barol   (4527 KB)
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Best gift idea ever?

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Reconsidering the Beatles reissues.

Beatles by Bill Barol   (3758 KB)
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(Originally posted at True/Slant)

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Oh, South Philly Experience truck... You had me at "Whiz."

Dashboard dining from the South Philly Experience truck, parked today at Olympic & Butler in West LA. The roll is Amoroso’s, the beef is thinly-sliced ribeye, and the cheese is — well, there’s only one right cheese for a cheesesteak.

Melty Cheez Whiz explosion. The focus is a little soft because my hands were shaking. From happiness.

Right around here is where it occurred to me that I was a middle-aged man sitting alone in his car photographing his food. Then I finished the sandwich, licked the cheese from the paper and drove home.

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