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Now I figured that my father's baldness was something that was happening with age, and keeping the shaved head was just his way of making the best of a bad situation. Not even a bad situation, really, a bad situation is going bald and wanting desperately to have your hair back and smearing all sorts of quack compounds on your head in the belief that your virility has been undermined. But I sort of took it without question is the point (how easily I get off track), and then I discover this in his house. What is it, you ask? Well, it's a dog chew. Fluffy dog toy the kind they place in buckets in pet stores for dogs to fetch while their owners look proudly on. But, more than that, notice the logo - it's an ANTI-SEMETIC Dog trainer. I'm amazed they haven't been busted for this. My father pleaded ignorance and reassures me that his balding is natural, not part of his joining some neo-nazi cult. I kinda have to believe him. But I wonder if they have these toys in other flavours, sort of like Jesus Squeakers, or the Latter Day Saints chews . . .
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This is without doubt the most procrastinated of blogs. By which I mean to forestall further procrastinations by beginning, today, the process of putting into print the the hundreds of thoughts that assail me, to organize into piles the heaps of ideas, illegible post-it notes, napkins, envelopes, and anything else that has taken an impression, to begin upon a mountain of opinions, facts, memes and ideas, to sort, categorize, to write with a minimum of revisions (and here I chortle, because with every sentence I review the paragraph and revise, rewrite, redraft. . . ).
There have been 10, 000 things come between me and this first post, 1 million fritters, 10 million excuses. . .