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22 October 2006
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:57:09 GMT Doonesbury's Warvia Kjell Olsen1934 days agoPiece on Garry Trudeau, the guy behind Doonesbury. I’m not entirely sure why I clicked onto it, or why I started reading it, or why I kept reading it; but it did a good job of pulling me in.
It turns out he’s not afraid of publicity so much as he’s horrified at being perceived as the kind of person who wants publicity.
I can empathize with that. I’ve never been one to attract attention to myself. But one of the things I wonder all the time is whether I’m just fake timid1. I mean I have a fricking public journal up on the internet for anyone to read2. I go out and play soccer on a field in front of fans, and although I hate to death the thought that people are watching me, I do sort of like it.
So do I maybe try not to attract attention just because I’ve never been paid tremendous amounts of attention? Or do I tend to deflect whatever attention I do get, thereby discouraging it from coming? The chicken or the egg.
There’s a difference between reputation and image, Trudeau explains. “These get confused in people’s minds,” he says, but one involves character, the other public relations.
“I just refused to get entangled by issues of image maintenance that fame implied. I made a deliberate retreat from a publicly visible life.”
It’s the stem cells. I hear their cries.
1 Here meaning that I don’t want too much publicity/attention focused upon me.
2 People can read it if they wish, but I haven’t ever told anyone about my site, it’s linked from a few other places. But I don’t at the moment have a link to it on facebook, where of my friends would likely find it.
If you google for me it comes up, and if you see my station11.net email address (I mostly use my umn.edu addy for stuff relating to school) you might be inclined to see what site that is. But otherwise, the only reason someone would come here is because google led them, and there’s ostensible something I’ve put down in which they have interest.
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27 August 2006
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:32:35 GMT Sandwichvia Kjell Olsen1990 days agoGet it?
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17 July 2006
Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:00:00 GMT Zidane headbutt outrage: new video evidencevia Kjell Olsen2031 days agoau revoir zizou
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07 July 2006
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:16:06 GMT Car Talkvia Kjell Olsen2040 days agoI’m sorry, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet for a while now.
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05 May 2006
Fri, 05 May 2006 09:45:00 GMT No Pants Day is TODAY!via Kjell Olsen2104 days agoEnough said.
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24 March 2006
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:06:20 GMT EvianKjell Olsen2146 days agoEvian is na
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Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:49:00 GMT
Bronze Republicanvia Kjell Olsen2146 days ago
Here’s a cute joke.
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21 February 2006
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:09:00 GMT It only takes a secondvia Kjell Olsen2177 days agoAAAH! AAAH!
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11 February 2006
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:02:32 GMT A Prairie Home Companionvia Kjell Olsen2187 days agoGarrison Keillor brought his show to my school tonight. I’d been once before, a few years back friends of my family were performing on the show and we got tickets. My family came up to see it. Good times were had by all. Great show.
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Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:15:00 GMT
Oh, come on!
I’ll sure miss Arrested Development. Best TV show ever.
I remember that I caught onto the first episode of the first season mostly by chance, but I’ve been more then hooked ever since.
I watched episodes 10, 11, and 12, and it sounds like there’s an episode 13 out there – but the copy I downloaded was identical to 12.
And please dear god, I hope Ron Howard was hinting at an AD movie at the end of episode 12. Maeby was discussing the TV series that her family had just signed the rights away to, with Ron Howard, and Howard said it wouldn’t make much of a TV show, but that he wanted to see it as a movie.
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08 February 2006
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:19:00 GMT Chicken DanceKjell Olsen2190 days agoGreatness. Remember that awesome Mr. Roboto VW commercial from way back? It was Buster.
Sadly, it looks like this friday will mark the end of Arrested Development. I see 4 episodes set to air though, so they’ll be going out with a bang.
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07 February 2006
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:52:41 GMT Receding Hairlinevia Kjell Olsen2191 days agoBecause sometimes, you have to cover an absent colleague’s desk with bread.
And hilarity ensued.
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04 February 2006
Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:40:26 GMTThen it occurred to me that I was standing there pissing on Nancy Reagan’s life work, and that made me feel better about it.
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23 January 2006
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:41:00 GMTSaturday afternoon in Utrecht is good. I’m coming in to Amsterdam at around 7pm on the Friday, whereupon I plan to:
- grow a mullet
- consume several pounds of weak greasy hash
- have an openface sandwich with extra mayonnaise
- flirt with becoming a trotskyite
- start an online bank
then take the train to Utrecht in the morning.
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09 January 2006
Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:09:49 GMT Rated Gee (Harpers.org)via Kjell Olsen2220 days agoWhat young children learned from watching movies.
No matter how clean they seem grandpa
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07 January 2006
Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:54:51 GMT Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges SUV, Trainvia Kjell Olsen2222 days agoFor Bessie (the cow),
It was the first of many near-death experiences.
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Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:29:00 GMT
SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rapvia Kjell Olsen2222 days ago
This has gone way too far: it’s playing on the radio right now. (1/7, 7:26pm). And again. Now it’s three times too far.
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05 January 2006
Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:04:13 GMT Blonde jokesvia Kjell Olsen2224 days agoThey make me laugh…
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19 December 2005
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:04:20 GMT nat friedmanvia Kjell Olsen2241 days agoWhy I never bought an RC Helicopter.
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14 December 2005
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:31:00 GMT The Hyperbole Towersvia Kjell Olsen2246 days agoCorporate speak at it’s best, from Ben Mathis-Lilley.
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12 December 2005
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:17:51 GMT CH friend Aziz Ansari is forced to carry around a boombox playing the world's shittiest mixtape.via Kjell Olsen2248 days agoNew York comedian loses bet and is forced to walk around the city blasting the ten ‘worst songs ever’ on a honking boombox.
Even the 12 year old girls gave him mean looks.
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10 December 2005
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:44:47 GMT Ideas for Creating American Jobs That Are Better Than the 735,000 Jobs Promised If Drilling Is Allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.via Kjell Olsen2250 days agoat McSweeney’s.
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01 December 2005
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:28:48 GMT Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'via Kjell Olsen2259 days agoCarnivorous Russian Squirrels:
A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.
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15 November 2005
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:00:30 GMT O RLY?via Kjell Olsen2275 days ago -
11 November 2005
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:01:00 GMT Random Chuck Norris Factsvia Kjell Olsen2279 days agoA man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is “Charles”. Chuck Norris did not respond, he simply stared at him until he exploded.
(Three months later: CHUCK NORRIS HAS LOST ALL HIS FUNNY)
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06 November 2005
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:28:00 GMT HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Trafficvia Kjell Olsen2284 days agoBlog about how to boost your blog traffic.
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03 November 2005
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:05:00 GMT autodidacticvia Kjell Olsen2287 days agoThank you qwantz.
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29 October 2005
Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:18:00 GMT Textbasevia Kjell Olsen2292 days agoI love text*.
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28 October 2005
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:08:25 GMT Depeche Mode at Bowery Ballroom for Boobsvia Kjell Olsen2293 days agoThis is not a joke. I hate Depeche Mode, i love boobs.
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26 October 2005
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:51:16 GMT If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout Historyvia Kjell Olsen2295 days agoTERRORISTS SEIZE B.E.I TEA.
KING GEORGE: “THEY HATE AMERICA. Fox News, 1773 -
25 October 2005
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:49:57 GMT Entertainment in Your Lap || kuro5hin.orgKjell Olsen2296 days agoOn a lighter note…
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12 October 2005
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:12:00 GMT Chicago Tribune - Obituariesvia Kjell Olsen2309 days agoMan dies, invited mourners to
please send acerbic letters to Republicans.
In lieu of flowers!
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30 September 2005
Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:43:50 GMT TextDrive Community Forum / Blogging alongvia Kjell Olsen2321 days agoYou mean like: “What is the essence of a good blog?” becoming: “Let’s design a smurf erotica site!”?
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18 September 2005
Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:53:36 GMT Piemonade - Homestar Runner Wikivia Kjell Olsen2333 days agoYum.
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