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Feb.19.2013
How did I get here? Simple question. How did I go from being a nice person with a telephone that connected me with even nicer persons to being a crazy person, standing out on the street fummydiddling with a plastic box that I barely use to make phone calls? How did I go from...
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Jun.21.2012
Today is my niece Sam's high school graduation. We're all really looking forward to the outdoor event in the middle of the afternoon, when the temperature is supposed to hit 92 degrees. With 70 percent humidity.
I think it crossed everyone's mind to just ditch it.
But, I've been tasked by Sam's...
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Jun.07.2011
I want to share something with you. Something very important. It's concerns our brains. The brain is a very complex organ, composed of approximately 100 billion neurons and each one of those neurons communicates with up to 10.000 other neurons. It's a loaded minefield in our heads. We have been,...
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Dec.31.2010
From the UK Mail, a heartwarming description of Hugh Hefner's new voyage on the matrimonial sea:
"The marriage proposal was apparently a rather romantic affair. On Christmas Eve, the couple watched a late-night movie together and then exchanged gifts: for him a framed photograph of their King...
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Sep.26.2009
My wife said we should go to Hotel Mac for dinner. Now, I've heard of Hotel Mac, but I couldn't tell you what the place looks like, even though I've been there and eaten there.
"Have we really eaten there before?" I asked.
"Yes. You said you liked it."
"I did?"
She...
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Jun.15.2009
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Book Review)
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey is now in paperback by Jonathan Cape. It has been short listed for the Orange Prize. It is the author’s debut novel. She has a masters degree in philosphy and has taught English, so I am now suprised it is literary...
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Apr.10.2009
If you have not seen the movie, I suggest you do so and more than once. Please do not read this before watching, as one cannot begin to fully discuss this movie without delving into the quarry that is its plot.
For those of you who have experienced Memento (because you do not simply watch a movie...
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Nov.29.2008
At 3 a.m., the hospital is in stasis. On the floors with patient rooms, all lights are turned down to a softer hue and patients, for the most part, are tucked in their beds. At one end, the nurses station remains a pocket of bright light, where the night shift of doctors and nurses intersperse...
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Nov.19.2008
Gary checks into the hospital that night. His room is on the neurology floor, a dimly lit hall with patient rooms on either side
It is odd to spend New Year's Eve in a hospital. People are out there getting drunk, making passes, dancing to loud music till blisters form on their feet, eating too...
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Nov.12.2008
As soon as we arrive to see Dr. Kim, the young internist arranges for a psychiatric evaluation right then and there. The psychiatrist, who makes people of slight builds look like professional bodybuilders, leads us into a small, windowless room that feels more like a large closet. This doctor, his...
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