Energy Drink Challenge: Monster vs. Full Throttle Fury

The quest for the perfect daily beverage-as-drug continues. The last four days have witnessed my first encounters with both Monster and Full Throttle Fury. Next week, Cocaine! (Actually, I think they got forced to change their name. Oh well.) Monster: Tastes like someone melted every flavor of Jolly Rancher ever conceived and then mixed it

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Blog Post Titles with Colons: My Personal Shame

Four of the last six? I gotta learn to mix things up with the titles. (And what’s with all the em-dashes? How old *am* I? Twenty-three? Jeez.) bkd

Experimenting with Drugs: How Alternating Doses of Energy Drink and Melatonin Have Kept Me Alive Another Two Days

One big upside to having a widescreen laptop is that you can do ridiculously long blog post titles without getting to the end of the input form. Just FYI. The last couple days I’ve been dosing myself with Energy Drink in the morning (8 oz./morning, Rockstar Juice variety) and then loading up with melatonin to

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Getting Closer: My Do-It-Yourself Kitchen Table Project So Far

I love writing blog post headlines for the sake of search engine findability. Seems honest. We’ll see where I end up ranking. So I’m building my own kitchen table, a *small* one. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: Wood glue alone isn’t strong enough to hold a table together. And good luck trying to get

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Wrong bkdunn

I’m used to getting wrong Brian Dunn emails on my brian.dunn at gmail address, but lately I’m getting wrong bkdunns as well. Most of the wrong brian.dunns are for some guy who was in the Peace Corps in Uganda. It’s kind of sad getting emails from someone else’s grandmother. Here’s my favorite to date: Peterson,

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Rat Year!

It’s all me, baby. All. Me. bkd

My (Near) Achievement of Photographic Greatness Adequacy

Got this email from Fresh Goat today: Fresh Goat to Catherine, sales, me show details 8:34 AM (10 hours ago)   Reply   On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Catherine wrote: > I’m writing to ask if you would grant Oxford University Press permission > to print the picture below, which appears on your web site

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One Final Kauai Vacation Bring-Down and Advance Planning for Future Bring-Downs

Just FYI, there were a couple days of my Kauai vacation that looked (and felt) like this: Even better: it’s at Wal-Mart. Saw this pic again looking through my photos today. Made me feel slightly better about being, you know, not there. Similarly, any time I think about my Utah house, I try to remind

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I Suck at Vacation

But am trying to make due. Been on Kauai since Wednesday. It’s different from Orange County. Hard to find POG for some reason. Haven’t found a plate lunch place yet. Still haven’t figured out how to relax. I should be *doing* something. Bought two Hawaiian shirts and a shell necklace yesterday, which I’m hoping will

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Deeper Into Another Cult: Happiness Is a Warm Springfield ’03 Bolt-Action Rifle

Pluses: Is actually from World War II. Vintage. Awakens ghosts. Has a bolt action! Spent shells sound cool as they fly onto the ground. Grants me libertarian Second Amendment cred. Endears me to rednecks. Is very loud. Teaches you what a “magazine cut-off switch” does. Holds up to five rounds. Cool Springfield Armory logo and

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