extremely brief episodes (2008-03-26)

March 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Tweets

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Spent the morning on MySpace. For my day job! I had to print & archive a 20 year old’s photos & profile. She died after a party this week. #
The client who hosted the party wants archives in case there’s a suit for the party. I went to the dead woman’s friend’s page. He was dead too! #

Politics

Air Force commander who flew HRC into Bosnia sez “there wasn’t a bumblebee flying around,” much less snipers. http://tinyurl.com/24srzg #

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