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Month: April 2001

Fish Dicks and Cat Shit

Fish Dicks and Cat Shit

Food. Our conversations revolve around it, though we sometimes veer severely off course with the mere quirk of words. He recently served fish sticks of the Van de Kamp variety when he reminisced about serving them to a young girl; she loved them so much she asked him to prepare “fish dicks” again the next day. Little girls — we say they’re nice and made up of spice, but who knew their minds could dream up of such things? It’s…

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Happy Birthday to Me.

Happy Birthday to Me.

Today is my birthday; I’m 28 years old, and counting. We celebrated it yesterday with lunch at my favorite Japanese seafood buffet, and afterwards we fed the ducks at the wildlife/wetlands preserve. Children were running all over the place, squawking at the pigeons and seagulls, and playing scarecrow to all the geese — which meant that I had to throw the bread as though I were a baseball pitcher, just to get it in range of the somewhat spooked and…

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