A few events this week to help pass the time, from bluegrass to kicking ass, plus your recommended daily allowance of Bjork …

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Ain’t It Cool News recently had a “Lost” haiku contest to win one of four Season 1 box sets. Here are my entries. Still waiting on the results …

The numbers 4, 8,
15, 16, 23,
and 42 suck.

Mysterious isle
lulls survivors with tropic–
   LOOK OUT! POLAR BEAR!!!!

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PBS does a great job in putting independent documentaries on the air, especially through its series, “P.O.V.” and “Independent Lens.”

So why is Alabama Public Television dropping the ball from time to time?

Updated

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They’re out there. I was reminded of that the other day.

Cool Chicks.

How do you spot them? Well, first, they don’t mind being called “chicks” …

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Who’s the gal that rocks
the big bench at the S.C.?
Harriet Miers!

Who’s the law lady
with balls the size of Texas?
Harriet Miers!

Biff and I are sick people. That’s a given.

That doesn’t mean we’re necessarily bad people, but we ain’t saints either.

Our corruption of ourselves, each other and the world at large has only begun.

And I apologize in advance.

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Poetry is free
But writing time is money …
I should charge five cents.

“Ah ah
Ooh ooh
Ah ah
Ooh ooh
White lights, strange city, mad music all around
Midnight street magic (ah), crazy people crazy sound.”

   (Name that tune!)

For those not familiar with the reality goodness that is “The Amazing Race,” you’re missing out on a terrific series.

That is, until this season. When they added families. And drove around a lot.

And came to Dixie.

[photos and exclusive insider notes from the Huntsville leg on the jump]

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Office pal takes off
   for better job — so happy!
(Can I have his desk?)

The turnout in yesterday’s city election: less than 25 percent.

Egad. Democracy is dead — long live democracy.

All that nonsense about if we don’t do (blank), the terrorists will win. Well …

Fall fashion forecast,
Everything goes in cycles.
Black is the new black.

So, the past couple of weeks, I’ve been in heavy networking mode. Which is not like me: I’m a wallflower. A pretty, pretty wallflower.

But you gotta get out there, make friends, just for the sake of finding leads for your colleagues.

A strange side effect: offers to hook me up. Yeah, it’s weirding me out, too.

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My timing is off.

After my pal Mike shelled out $5.50 for me to go to the Birmingham Zoo with him and Baby Girl, I probably shouldn’t have blurted out, “I’m philosophically opposed to zoos.”

Which makes me the monkey.

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I did this Sunday.
(Or was that last Saturday?)
Is today Tuesday?!

… and you know how painful that can be.

All politics really is local. Case in point: Our current city councilor, Valerie Abbott, is running for re-election. And today is Election Day. No big deal.

Except, even at this level, it’s still a fight. [Updated!]

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