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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Car Culture

by M. Bouffant at 21:53

Labels: A Waste of Electrons, Advertising, Consumption, Corporations, Denial River, Glibertarianism, Humanoids: A Cancer on The Planet, Local Action, My Suffering, Numb, Oddities and Artifacts, Why Bother?

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Al said...: The invention of the privately owned automobile is man's greatest mistake.; 19 August, 2023 09:12

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- IM FINALLY BACK IN ICELAND...AND SOOOOO HAPPY ;) An American guy sent me this the other day on myspace, check it out. Proves Im not crazy...or well at least...
17 years ago
Teabonic | Teabagger spoken here

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Good Show Sir

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www.pulpinternational.com/rss.php5

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ghost light

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This Barren Country

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apostropher

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It Is *Dancing*!!!!

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gaia's voluptuous anvil

gaia's voluptuous anvil = A Dash Of Tuesday Whimsy - Using brute logic, I arbitrarily changed the blog's name so as to bring it more in accordance with the morbid-yet-playful text that I have next to my icon ...
83 years ago

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