Full text from the New Yorker, March 24, 08.Also: very interesting conversation between the two. Exposure The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib. by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris All that the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, a Reserve unit out of Cresaptown, Maryland, knew...
There and Back Again The soul of the commuter. by Nick Paumgarten from the New Yorker (April 16, 2007 ) Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America’s longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred...
Daily Afffirmations: Courtesy of Beckett, Shakespeare, Camus, Faulkner, the Greeks, Monty Python, Koheleth, and yours truly... Birth was the death of him. --Samuel Beckett Do I believe in God? But of course. The undeniable evidence of his insanity, his apathy, his impotence, his malevolence, and his...
2.18.08 I’m in kind of an odd mood. Today started off badly and at the time, it felt like a bad omen for the week. Ok, it’s slightly melodramatic to say that it started off badly because the “it” to which I am referring is simply my breakfast. As I have recently mentioned, I have a banana...
Monday, January 28, 2008 Welcome to the first 'real' blog entry. It's a big one... you might wanna sit down. Last night was the 21st annual Royal Rumble. The 'Road to Wrestlemania' begins... Open, Madison Square Garden. Madison Square Garden For starters, let me comment on MSG. I know that many hail...
Let us begin with the a priori assumption that the reader is either currently practicing or firmly committed to the concept of Open Relationships as a conscious and loving lifestyle. If you are not in that category then this article will probably not be of interest to you. If you are full of...
One of my favourite TV Shows as a kid in the mid 60's was Batman and Robin", my mothers apron doubled as a bat cloak and the stair bannister was my bat pole. The posting also gives me the opportunnity to post Link Wray's cover of the theme track which amonst others has been covered by both The Who...
Incidentally, Cheung and Cheung's rabid fans: I do not hate sex. I do not hate men or women, except in specific cases. I am neither Christian nor prudish and I don't believe that keeping the lights on is the most exciting thing one can do in the bedroom. I'm just very clear on where an empowered...
The Neo-Futurist Times Review, Issue 237, 2036 New generation of space punks thumbing noses at big business By Richard Horn Times Review Editor ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (NTR) - There was a time when a person could walk through the crowded streets of Madagascar's capital and not see the future...
Let me start by saying that this day was both the best and worst of the two days. I still get knots in my stomach thinking about it. The only was I can think of organizing this efficiently without forgetting too much is by breaking it into bullets. I'll embellish the important parts. Morning The...
Wednesday night I sat at my laptop with headphones on, deeply absorbed in the e-mail I was writing when Norina, Joel, and Anna (Norina's 10 year old best friend) walked into the living room and sat down at the computer. I only half-noticed that they were casting me furtive glances and seemed to be...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Monday Night Raw opened with the Hornswoggle vs. Mr. McMahon match. You know, almost every time that Vince walks the ramp (especially so if he is in wrestling gear), I have to chuckle. See, I can't help but remember the Vince McMahon of my childhood, the 1980's, skinny...
...from what, I don't know. Winter? It's no surprise that winter doesn't really show up here in San Diego*, but there is a definite period of less-than-summer. The weather is cool, the days are a little more grey and rainy than normal, and people seem to be glum. I enjoy it, as it's a nice break...
Nothing comes easy in the winter along New Hampshire's fifteen or so miles of rocky coastline. Living expenses are high, alcoholism is a wildly popular pastime, and there's not a lot of work. The cost of heating oil is a merciless bitch, and each year the newscasters give a body count of elderly...
The most common questions asked by non-muslims answered in sequence. Q1. Why is a man allowed to have more than one wife in Islam? i.e. why is polygamy allowed in Islam? Q2. If a man is allowed to have more than one wife, then why does Islam prohibit a woman from having more than one husband? Q3....
I. Favourites: Drawing and action fighting When I was young, I am not able to keep quiet and just sit still. Therefore I am always getting myself hurt. “Don’t touch this!” I’ve been told, but I touched the opened can from the side and hurt my finger. When I sit behind my father on this bike, they’ve...
these few days have been busy to da max! [hmmm i guess "da max" has been my fav phrase of late...] sun i went over to hui's to interview aunty glory.. then chatted with hui n aunty tung hwa.. and got lost gg to jlow's hse.. haa.. went back to hall and started transcribing the interview. [thank God i...
I had my birthday party last night at the Hub and it was great. The day had started kind of shitty, and I thought my party would be cancelled due to the wind. The Joban line is notorious for delays because of a slight breeze, but it was, and still is, quite gusty. Nikki called me and said that she...
DR. WILLIAM BOOTHE - LASIK SURGERY Start by rolling the wand from root to tip in an upward motion. Reinsert the brush and apply again. If your eyelashes are thick and long they may clunk together. If this happens let them dry and then separate them with the corner of an eyebrow brush.Dr William...
I just got out of a HELLISH meeting. Yes, much to my disgruntlement and frustration, my vocation involves trying to withstand the brainless corporate world. Since I'm completely uninterested in anything anyone has to say (what we discuss in these meetings truly has no bearing on anything in the...
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