If It Feels Good Do It

Someday I will post a list. It will be called Things Increasingly Vogue To Hate That I Don’t. Toward the top of that list — containing Britney Spears, light beer and Christian people — will be twitter.
Twitter.
I originally read about it in the Economist. I checked it out. I thought it was cool. I started [...]

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The rendezvous began with hot, passionate sex. Or at least it was hot. Like, the air conditioner didn’t work or something. I think it was passionate sex. I’m a guy so there really is not much difference between passionate sex, dispassionate sex, healthy sex, good sex, unhealthy sex, bad sex, dirty sex, clean sex, [...]

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And someone called Sarah.

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Since moving out, I have not visited the house that I grew up in often. The house in Benicia, I mean. The house in the hills, I mean.
If I did visit, usually I would not sleep over. I hated spending the night. I felt sad.
But last Christmas when I came to visit, something [...]

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Just being honest.
I also like going to the library. San Mateo has a beautiful library. Parks and libraries. Those are two things I like a lot. San Mateo has a nice park, too. But fuck it, I’m not going to write about the park. For those of you who want me to write about the [...]

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I hate strip malls, but that’s about it. I’m serious.
Some think of me as cynical. But actually, I believe in people and they constantly surprise me.
Right now I’m at a strip mall in Costa Mesa. I’m in a Mexican Restaurant. The food is delicious, but somehow since I’m at a strip mall the food [...]

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Heading down to Los Angeles to have dinner with my dad. Then I’ll visit a bunch of other people in socal and it will be good.
I’ll return on Sunday. I think.

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I must be the only one in my family who drinks coffee. Well, my father drinks coffee. But he’s not really, “in my family.” He’s just my dad — an extreme individualist who lives in the mecca for such people, Los Angeles.
My mother inherited her drinking habits from her own mother, who is British. So, [...]

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“If you are stuck in a rut, the best way out is to do new things. This is especially true if you don’t feel like doing those things.”
-Ian Bowman, 2009
Well, it might have been 2008 or 2007 when I originally said something like that, but fuck it you get the point.
Zumba in a nutshell is [...]

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I received an absolutely horrible email this morning. Or horrifying. Maybe that’s a better way of putting it: horrifying.
subject: Whole Foods E-waste and Donation Event on Saturday
Dear Ian,
This Saturday, Goodwill, Energy 92.7 Radio and Whole Foods Market have teamed up to make donating easy, fun and delicious. Visit us at the San Mateo Whole Foods [...]

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