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The Adventures of an American Vagabond
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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Hey you

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Hey you, in the Gameday crowd in Austin. You, the one holding up the sign that looks like an Ohio State logo but actually says "Overrat...

Ohio State/Texas prediction

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Ohio State 38, Texas 24 That's my official prediction for the big game in Austin tomorrow night (or tonight, as it is currently well aft...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Very old news

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Although you surely did not see this story on your favorite news program 3 or 5 years ago, that's when this story was actually news. I h...

We should be better than this

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I just watched a short documentary on HBO about a handful of kids with Tourette Syndrome, and it just about breaks my heart. Not so much bec...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

"We the people" did this

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They don't tell you this in the following article, but the article only exists because the little people have finally started taking bac...

You think we're that stupid?!?

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From an Associated Press article on Yahoo: Bush said the United States has been making progress against terrorists in the past five years, ...

No time to waste

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Hey Ohioans, are you sick of not having a job? Are you sick of losing friends and family in a bullshit "war" that's only creat...

A funny story

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From CBS SportsLine : UNLV kicker Ben Jaekle was summoned from the stands Saturday after starter Sergio Aguayo was injured in the opener aga...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The corporation

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If you have not seen The Corporation yet, you need to go out and get it right now. Your future depends on it!
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Be very afraid of this man

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Even though I have already started drafting some Aimless-related entries and would like to write about that stuff , there are more serious t...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Steve Irwin

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I just heard Steve Irwin died. Something about a stingray. Man, that sucks. What a great guy. We'll miss you, dude.
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Sunday, September 03, 2006

One way to make some quick cash

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I was standing in the shower thinking about what makes a man. I'm lying. I wasn't actually thinking about what makes a man. That...
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Friday, September 01, 2006

A new direction

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As I've indicated in some recent entries, I need to rethink some of my Aimless fund-raising strategies. My approach has not been workin...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Strange day

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I added the following paragraph on 9/8/2006: A lot of people have ended up on this page in an attempt to find the address of a famous comedi...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Real America

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(Originally posted on some other forum at 1:45 AM, 5/30/2006.) I had an idea tonight that I think will change my life. (Of course, I believe...
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In case you don't read comments

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Jay posted a link to a picture of me , on the flo with a dirty tie and a jammy. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Some things just make sense

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This entry is mostly in response to what Jay Rivers , the guitar god, said in a comment on my Grassroots fund-raising entry. Free advertisi...
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I should spam them instead

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I just got totally flippin' sick of trying to turn people on to Aimless by sending them "introductory" e-mails, so I'm not...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Grassroots fund-raising

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I've come up with an idea recently that will help me raise a little money as well as spread the word about Aimless . Like a little kid, ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Call me a flip-flopper

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After spending some time pondering what I said yesterday, I think I've reverted back to my original position, or at least closer to my o...
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Saturday, August 26, 2006

On the other hand...

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My buddy Jay kind of got me thinking ten minutes ago with an e-mail regarding some of my strategies for making Aimless. He asked me this: M...
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Friday, August 25, 2006

Counterproductive

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We've all heard it before, from our parents and teachers. Then we heard it from our other teachers, then the following year's teache...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Jay Rivers, American

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( Jay's new web site .) I met Jay Rivers in early 1993, shortly after he moved to Columbus from Charlottesville, Virginia. I'd been ...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

This is an epidemic

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OK, I've about had it with all the September 11th "documentaries" that have been airing on A&E, Discovery, TLC, Court TV, ...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Supercross: The Movie

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I just watched most of Supercross: The Movie, and I found myself spending more time analyzing it than actually following the story. I couldn...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

Learn something from this

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According to an Associated Press article found on Yahoo News : Ford to halt production at 10 plants DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. said Friday it...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

Introducing Harry Roland

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Some of you have probably seen Harry Roland in action at the World Trade Center site. Some of you have even met him. Others may have read ab...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

Aimless and faithless

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The search for sponsors is becoming very tiresome and frustrating. I've sent well over 500 e-mails--maybe even 1,000--to various busines...
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Friday, August 11, 2006

Emancipation

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I've spent so much time working on Aimless over the last couple months, I'm starting to lose touch with my original vision. I'm ...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Documentaries don't have to be so boring

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In the last couple months I have done a lot of thinking and reading about documentary films. I have also watched more documentaries than us...
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Friday, August 04, 2006

Me Me Me

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I've been struggling a bit with the reality that Aimless seems to be more about me than it is about what I'm creating. I feel like t...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

Ready for NCAA Football?

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Copied from a Sporting News forum: I love posts where OSU & UM fans go head to head. Always great arguments in debatably the best rivalr...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Time to get soliciting again

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In late June I sent out 40 or 50 solicitation e-mails to Columbus area doctors and dentists, following a fund-raising tip from a filmmaking ...
Monday, July 31, 2006

I finally have a real blog

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It's way easier to get a blog set up than I figured. I just went to blogger.com, following one of my own Google ads, and set the thing u...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Blog Forum

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] This "blog" is moving to this location in the Aimless Forums . So for the blog (in case this dumb html e...
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Swim

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] I'm about to go swimming for the first time this summer if I can find my trunks. Me white boy. Very white boy.
Friday, July 28, 2006

Hey, is anyone actually reading this?

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] Since this "blog" does not allow commenting, I don't really know if anyone has been checking it out. ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Baby steps

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] Now that this web site is running and looking presentable, it's about time to start sending out e-mails to anyo...
Friday, July 21, 2006

A few things

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] I can't even remember what I was going to write about here. There is so much going on inside my head, it's ...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Another one

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] Well, I'm coming around. Got some pages up, but I really don't want to keep using this template. I sure hop...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

First Blog Entry

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[REPOSTED FROM OLD BLOG] This is my first blog entry. Trying to figure out how to set this shit up. Getting frustrated.
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