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Jan.05.2012
Colm Tóibín
1 Finish everything you start.
2 Get on with it.
3 Stay in your mental pyjamas all day.
4. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
5 No alcohol, sex or drugs while you are working.
6 Work in the morning, a short break for lunch, work in the afternoon and then watch the six o'clock...
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Dec.31.2011
With the lose of patent protection on Lipitor, Pfizer has announced it will seek bailout funds to make up for the devastating loss of revenue and profits.
FNN financial reporter Cash Kruggerand filed this report.Pfizer reports that the loss of patent protection on Lipitor has had a stunning effect...
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Dec.28.2011
Birmingham, England 1978
Fáshiön frontman Luke Sky, and sound engineer Miki Cottrell are faced with a weekend of no gig or band rehearsal
I’m in my kitchen, half-heartedly throwing a large kitchen knife at what’s left of the back door. Despite many years of practice, I can’t quite get the...
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Dec.20.2011
It’s not that uncommon for folks to use a bit of psychoactive help to meet deadlines. Nowadays it’s Adderall. In my Dad’s day, it was a Judy Garland cycle of bennies and barbs (benzedrine and barbiturates) that got him through law school. He may not have believed in God but throughout his...
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Nov.08.2011
What happens when your loyalties are in conflict and you must betray your old mentor in order to fulfill your duty? What if this old mentor who used to protect and help you as a kid is now a dangerous drug-and-human trafficking overlord? This is the predicament our protagonist, Tim Kelly,...
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Sep.21.2011
I’m stretched out on my bed, half my legs hanging over the end, as usual. Outside in the hall I can hear voices raised in protest against Miki’s assertion that the party is definitely fucking over.
He jumps back into the room, shoulders the door shut, locks and dead-bolts it, kills the lights...
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Sep.20.2011
But in the end it’s Mulligan and Dik that get to shag America, or at least a couple of long-legged, dusky stripper groupies. I half-heartedly toy with a couple of dodgy-looking punkette boilers who, in spite of how much I drink stoutly (sic) continue to look like something from one of Hogarth’s...
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Sep.04.2011
I entered the "Double Your Money" soundproof vocal booth and donned the cans. I was told to keep my gob six inches away from and pointed at the microphone. We got a vocal volume level, a track playback level, and away we went.
The opening chords of "I Don’t Take Drugs, I Don’t Tell Lies" sliced...
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Aug.31.2011
The floodgates are open...
While exploring themes for the novel I have just finishing writing, Aspen’s Indigo Twilight, I kept coming back to the impact that money laundering has on the world economy. It may not occur to you how much impact this illicit activity has on everyone, but it a...
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Jul.24.2011
It's grown quite popular to sport a yin yang symbol on a t shirt, bumper sticker, etc. but it's significance in agriculture has historical importance as far back as 3000 B.C.E. when the ancient Chinese Botanist, Shen Nung, recognized that Cannabis's female flowers had more yin (female energy) than...
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