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Don Baron!: the yiddish swinging union
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Sunday, July 8, 2007. The yiddish swinging union. While i once stayed far away from such talk, dismissing it roundly as idle old-lady banter, i have recently embraced it, and now live for it. every time i visit chicago, i try to get as many chatty women together as possible, preferably at a round table and representing all available age groups. they require very little from me to get started. So whats new these days? The one who makes teeth for a living? What kind of job is this? Donny, how do you say?
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Don Baron!: the new hood.
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Monday, February 18, 2008. Welcome to my new neighborhood! Enough dirty streets, littered with crushed tallboys, used rubbers and drug paraphernalia. I'll say it twice cause its nice: enough hipsters! Plus my ride, Black Thunder, has a garage where he can kick it with his new homies. Back to geography. yes! From my roof i can see alcatraz, a couple bridges, downtown, coit tower and that twisty shit coming down lombard (pictures soon!
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Don Baron!: We are Back
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Friday, September 19, 2008. It has been 12 years, 34 fortnights and 140 light-years since i have written last. I know the light-year is a unit of distance - take it easy. All of these stories are written out of need, and yes from a sense of responsibility. i must share this with my friends, they need to know! They are written from a compulsive place, fueled by the urgency and potency of the thought, the obsessive worry that if i do not capture this moment right now, in this space, it will be lost forever.
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Don Baron!: Montreal
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Saturday, March 22, 2008. Well my time for flagrant international travel is coming to an end. it's not that the past trips to israel, brazil, puerto rico, and columbus, Ohio were frivolous. they were just a strange and seemingly non-essential component of my soon-to-be old job. you heard right, I have taken a job with a small startup in san francisco! I am not one to go down quietly! 5000 cms of snow per hour or something (i dont go metric). treacherous! Take a look at these streets :. Sure i got some ru...
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Don Baron!: shore leave
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Thursday, June 7, 2007. At least 25 times, and its affecting my world view. tom waits knows how to bring you to a place and drown you in the provincial kitsch:. Well I was pacing myself. Trying to make it all last. Squeezing all the life. Out of a lousy two day pass. And I had a cold one at the Dragon. With some Filipino floor show. And talked baseball with a lieutenant. Over a Singapore sling. And I wondered how the same moon outside. Over this Chinatown fair. Could look down on Illinois.
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Don Baron!: Discussions of Information Theory, Penguins and Recounts
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Monday, November 3, 2008. Discussions of Information Theory, Penguins and Recounts. When I was a graduate student at Berkeley I had a number of professors, none of whom I could understand. Whether they would talk about information theory, digital communications or natural language processing, all of these guys would butcher the english language violently. And still, a common message resonated: apparently, whether you are from India, Kazakhstan, or Russia, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Just the t...
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Don Baron!: sootblower's lament
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007. Man i need to stop hanging out with power guys. The boiler needs work. We blow soot past lines ragin' yella,. And our faces reign black. Our shoulders shlumped shale,. Our hearts: NO DATA.
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Don Baron!: positive paul gets pinched
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Positive paul gets pinched. As with all other parts of the wedding, there is a distinct potential for drama during this warm up period. so much is on the line that any miscue is magnified and before you know it, things get out of hand. we've all heard of people getting left at the altar (though none of us have seen this ourselves). what about people getting booted from weddings for discounting the previous night's dis-invitation? Positive paul gets pinched.
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Don Baron!: Dental Damns....
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007. 1 I have come to appreciate the feeling of novicaine shot into my jaw, and the subsequent dull drilling of the interiors of my head by blue hooded jokester. This seems unlikely. 2 I need a new job.
