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The Devil You Know

Stream o’ consciousness…

In me, Me, ME! on December 31, 2008

10 entries for December 31st:

	12:38am	Mike loves his crazy wiffles. There. I said it.
	12:40am	Mike has a timebomb in his mind, mom.
	12:54am	Boondoggling the Inauguration
	8:41am	"Huffington Post’s model of journalism isn’t really that radical"
	9:04am	We have audio!
	9:27am	N.C. governor says newspapers’ job "is to be nice to me"
	10:28am	The return of the pop-up ad (when will they ever learn?)
	11:02am	Scrobbled 11 songs on Last.fm. (Show Details) Eastwood – Breathe Eastwood – Giving Up, Giving In Eastwood – Lawman’s Curse Eastwood – Let Me Be Your Man Eastwood – Natalie Eastwood – Not Too Late Eastwood – Only Remember The Good Times Eastwood – Right Place Wrong Time Eastwood – They’ll Never Take Me Alive Old 97’s – Early Morning Old 97’s – The Easy Way
	12:48pm	Why media companies are hosed
	4:16pm	Presses stopped

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