Soup of Today

[Now playing on Live 105's lunchtime rewind: This Charming Man by (who else?) the Smiths.]

[Why does the phrase "why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat" always make me feel so damn good?]

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[I realized today that it's been a while since I've felt so thoroughly San Franciscan as this morning when, while riding to Trader Joe's on the 38L, I read the word "playa" in two different pieces in the Weekly. In both cases, I had to study the contexts to determine that one meant "a player," while the other referred to the plain on which Burning Man is held.]

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[From that Mike guy:]

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[OK, Alex, I'll edit your senior Classics thesis.]

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[A phrase I don't need to hear again: "If it was going to happen, it would've happened that time when ____."

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[My sister's making me an uncle in October.]

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[I'd feel safe and warm if I was...uh, were riding the Piccadilly line to Leicester Square.]

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[Spring has sprung, and Sean and I are wondering why we're finding no takers.]

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[Maybe it has something to do with what I've noticed for a while, but which a trip with him to Macy's men's basement drove home again: if the '90s were about heroin chic, the '00s are about methamphetamine chic, and those clothes don't fit either of us.]

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