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Hello everyone.  I haven't done a Three Links since June 6th.  How selfish.  The internet is abundant with unshared pleasures and yet I haven't managed to share a thing.  One should always share.  It's human nature: I like you because you give me things.  Anyhow, these are interesting bits in the order I'd like you to read them:

Today's topic: Lightning

Landing

Deals

Well, if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, from now until mid-December there's going to be lessening sun -- and the dark, despite small increases, will continue for months after.  I encourage you to go to your favorite blogs and comment, and with the right sort of human friendship, we'll get ourselves through the winter and back to the Spring.

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Three Links seems to be as good a way as any to ease back into this thing. I've never really gone two months without blogging before. Maybe you think it's because I've turned boring. On the contrary, my friend, I've turned so exciting that every time I've touched a computer's keyboard it tripped a circuit breaker (on laptops the battery just caught fire -- that hurts the junk something fierce -- mine now looks like Nick Nolte's face, minus the teeth of course).

These are interesting bits, alphabetically by subject matter:

Angel Food Cake

Making Beautiful Things

Rectangles of Sod

Okay. I've done my part. Now you do yours.  And yes, I'm typing this in a non-conductive rubber suit.  It's hot.  I know, but literally.
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Happy VD everyone! I hope you all are having a good VD experience (the antibiotics make me giddy and lightheaded). Yes, I made that joke last year, and I'll continue to make it every year. It's just one of those things about me that you're going to have to live with. Like when I meet someone with a PhD and ask "Hey Doc, can you take you take a look at this rash?" It doesn't get old.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, and Jesus loves them equally:

These are the ways you can love yourself...

(title unknown)

Her Eyes

It's been so long since I wrote one of these link posts. How do they usually end?
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Wow, I haven't done one of these in awhile. It's Summer's fault -- the season, not the Sanders woman. The weather's been pretty much gorgeous here, the food's been great, and the company varied and intriguing. But, geez, I'm so sick of that. Let's get to the season of dying already. Right?

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, although there is no true random:

Once they get a taste of blood, you have to put them down.

On The Road, Nov. 19, 2010

happy new (fiscal) year!!

Okay, it's your turn.

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So it's pretty much Summer. I should be done complaining about the weather. Well, guess what? I am. This is the season to be alive, to be in the city. I am both.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, and the sun has come, and I shall worship it:

1) Golden State

2) Life is For Expansion

3) Public Art Continues to Be Terrible, Amazing: Part 2

Enjoy, people. Don't think so deeply. The sun is warm.
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March. I got excited a little bit when it turned to March. I thought maybe Spring was coming. My barber laughed at this notion, but I wasn't concerned about that, but rather the fact that I had an itchy cough while he was using the straight razor. Why shouldn't he laugh? Haven't I lived in Chicago before? I have, for several years, but you can't fault my optimism. Lions and lambs. Lambs and lions.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, and the sun will come, just give it time:

1) Molestation in Mumbai

2) Vanessa & Ryan

3) (

Lambs and lions. Lions and lambs.
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Happy New Year folks. It seems like it's going to be a good one, but who really knows? Did you make any resolutions? I did: to post at least one Three Links.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, brought to you by my infinite resolve:

1) Public Urination Invariably Leads to Self-Inflicted Choking

2) Causes and the Gifford Assassination Attempt

3) (title unknown)

Hey, only about six weeks until we have weather that's not physically painful. Go Bears!
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Oh, it's cold. It's so cold. It's long underwear and extra undershirt weather. I don't love it, but I love to talk about it.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, initially frozen and then jumbled by the thaw.

1) Mutual

2) The Underclass

3) Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving

I like the Christmas lights. I like the snow and the sense of wonder. I like you.
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What's the weather doing here? It's been windy, a lady got impaled by a falling tree branch (she's okay [relatively] as of the latest), and now it's cold. I expected that. As we move into November, the seasonal doldrums will begin to take hold. I expect you guys to get me through it, though I will make an effort too.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order, scattered, if you will, by the wind...and you will:

1) On Hidden Lives

2) Four

3) Whoops

So, enjoy the last of the changing leaves, those of you in regions which have seasons, and to those others, please understand that we like to get sad and gray and cold so later we can get happy and bright and warm.

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So it's the last hour of the last day of meteorological summer. That's a little sad, but the only month of meteorological summer I really enjoy is June. The rest is so hot, and pants have to be thoroughly sniffed before being worn on the second day. I'm ready for Fall and football and really unpleasant Mondays.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (like the order of dreams):

1) Snooze, Lose

2) Throw Away Other People's Trash, or, How to Boost Your Self-Esteem

3) Miscellaneous stolen stuff

It seems to me that many of the blogs I read are drying up. Maybe it's the weather. Maybe they've moved on to greater things. Maybe it's the nature of the medium. So I'm open to recommendations.

Bonus link: BOOK REPORT: Caboose Mystery
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It's hot. I could fry eggs on the hood of my car, and they'd be seasoned with street dirt, peeling paint, and whatever birds like to eat plus white goop. I'll call them Parked Car Eggs or Huevos al Carro Aparcado.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (well, in the divine order, which none of us can know):

1) 12th and Moore

2) Meditations on Grilled Cheese and Gloomy Mondays

3) Since I'm too lazy to go back and link, this was from InStyle

I'm so brown right now. I wish brownness to everyone, unless you're in Arizona, where it could cause complications. If you're there, definitely call them "Parked Car Eggs" and keep your documents handy.
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Here it's almost summer in the city. The back of my neck gets burnt and pretty.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (Am I lying to you? I am lying to you):

1) Quite possibly the most patriotic thing I've ever done

2) Shooting Stars

3) that one time I went speed dating

A happy Summer Solstice to you. I'll be visiting the live poultry store to get my sacrifice on. I hope you will too, but the chickens don't.
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It's getting very warm and green here, and that makes me worry about how to both dress comfortably and conceal my needle-bruised arms. Three-quarter sleeves, I suppose. But then I remember that I don't inject drugs or own a three-quarter sleeve shirt. I wonder why I'm worrying about that. But then again, why do I worry about the war in Afghanistan?

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (what affects one of us affects us all):

1) In case you want a little more attention in public

2) "Of Images And Reflections..."

3) A Softer World: 553

A happy day and night or night and day to everyone.
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It snowed yesterday, so here comes Spring, but not before a finger or toe turns purple, then black, then falls off, and then an irritated hospital staff informs you that you would not want them to reattach it, despite your continuing insistence that "I kept it cold."

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (unless you believe in predestination):

1) 7 Games You Can Play With a Brick

2) Patience is the Deepest Sense of Knowing

3) Fun Fact

A happy week to everyone. Let's not lose any more digits.
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Work, play, love, death. Seems simple enough, though there's a lot of waiting in between.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (well, in some particular order, maybe in all particular orders):

1) reading with expression

2) us

3) what is it like to be a giraffe

Best wishes. Winter is weakening. I can feel it.
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January, you foul month. And people name their daughters that. Why would anyone in the Northern Hemisphere outside of the tropical and sub-tropical regions name their daughter January?

Hi, my name's January. I'm dark and frigid and will fill you with constant guilt for not living up to your resolutions.

That's why I make my resolutions at the Spring equinox and feel bad around women named April.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (ha! -- of course there's a particular order):

1) Jan 11 2010

2) The Wilderness Year's - Robert and the Mittens

3) Human hibernation: going back to bed

Actually, for all my seasonal complaining, I feel pretty okay. I credit Satan and his residual heat.
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Well, I got a couple weeks of holiday mayhem left before the winter doldrums -- when the ceiling and walls creep in until I can reach out and touch them without fully extending my arms, and when blogs play a leading role in keeping me sane, second only to daydreaming about the sun, the Cubs, and street parking that doesn't involve negotiating knee-high piles of dirty ice.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (you shouldn't believe me -- of course there's a particular order):

1) Let's Pet Stuff

2) Spontaneous (Something Intelligent and Relevant)

3) Nice, Very Mature

I hope all of you stay safe and warm and get what you want for Christmas, tangible or intangible. Peace.
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It's getting too cold to go out. The wind is a formidable foe. So pull on your long undies, grab a choice warming beverage, and settle in. The dark days are here, and fat is your friend, or maybe your friend is fat.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (always a lie -- of course there's a particular order):

1) Making a Name for Yourself

2) One Sword

3) Bronx Freedom Fund

Enjoy the twinkling lights this weekend. There is magic in them.
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Let's do it again. This is a fun weekend activity because it doesn't require me to be particularly sharp. Let's do a regular commenter version, with apologies to Amadea's World. If you read German, Austrian to be specific, I encourage you to check her out.

These are interesting bits, in no particular order (again, a lie -- of course there's a particular order):

1) I Am A Camel

2) you don't know how lucky you are, boy

3) paranoia fail

This (American) Thanksgiving week, I'm thankful for all your voices. You occupy the coveted last positions in my Google Reader. You guys are the chocolate at the end of my Drumstick (Cornetto for Europeans, Bell X1). Thanks.
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Really? I don't do links -- but maybe I should -- I mean, I'm generally saying something about interconnectedness, but probably not putting enough effort into connecting.

These are bits of internet debris that I find interesting, in no particular order (a lie: of course there's a particular order):

1) Growing roadkill

2) Housewifery

3) Comic 287

This is a cheap, easy post, a microwave dinner of a post, so I think I'll do it more often.
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