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[verbminx]

I was all kinds of productive tonight. I shredded two complete magazines, filled and taped a box I had already packed, and rearranged a whole bunch of boxes. You still can't see any floorboards, but now my box stacks are a little less scattered and somewhat more impressive. I still have something like 4 or 5 boxes to add filler to - shredded mags or styrofoam peanuts or whatever - I just haven't gotten around to creating the amount of filler that I need to create. (that's - wait for it - two to three boxes in the study, one box in my bedroom, two boxes in the living room - and they're almost all books. two of the boxes in the study, or one big one, is action figures and dolls and other collectible crap.)

then i bought family dinner: mandarin chicken salads from wendy's. also, we watched Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - one week and it's officially an addiction. The guy they were making over this week was really cute and would have been cuter if they had cut off ALL his hair and left it sort of... a couple of inches long and spikey. (that's the heavy metal haircut these days anyway, isn't it?) his girlfriend, though... i suspect she seemed kind of dumb and bitchy because she was nervous about the cameras. if not, then the guy's pretty vapid himself.

my ears are popping again.
i just did a puzzle in Games magazine that consisted of filling in the blanks with a list of provided words, the object being to reconstruct actual country song titles. Some real winners there - "I've Got Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat," for example. "I Bought the Shoes that Just Walked Out on Me," "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops," "How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?" etc. They did not, however, use my favorite: "You Were Flushed From The Bathroom Of My Heart."

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pulp friction

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How do you decide which magazines to shred?

"If the Jukebox Took Teardrops"
Classic! At least the C&W types don't buy into the macho notion that men don't cry.

Re: pulp friction

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my mom used to work in a college bookstore, and we were frequently given magazines with the covers torn off. a lot of these are, like, Vanity Fair from 1999, British Cosmo same year, etc. what I've been doing is picking up the next magazine on the pile, going thru it page by page, saving any good pictures or illustrations, and shredding the rest. You can only shred about 4pp at a time (cheap shredder), so I'd have to go through page by page anyway.

I'd also like to point out that they didn't use "There's A Tear in My Beer" in the puzzle. It seems like more of the C&W depression songs have to do with getting really, really drunk than with crying. Or suggesting that crying is only done by macho guys when they're really, really drunk.