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Nov 4, 2010, 11:35 am
Linus: Hey, aren't you going to stay to greet the Great Pumpkin? Huh? It won't be long now. If the Great Pumpkin comes, I'll still put in a good word for you!
Linus: Good grief! I said "if"! I meant, "when" he comes!
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Jul 20, 2010, 6:45 pm
Memories of You -- Ol Blue Eyes
This post has been rolling around in my head for weeks. I decided it finally needed to see the light of day, even if I can't clearly articulate what it is I'm trying to say.
Facebook has been a tremendous tool for getting back in touch with childhood pals, I'll give i... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2010, 1:00 pm
Edited 6/3/10 to add link to article
Or, Man's inhumanity toward man, part 2.
When it's online I will come back and post a link, because it's well worth a read. But I just finished editing an update to the famous Stanley Milgram experiments.
Twenty-first century style, some idiot turned electrocutin... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 9:56 pm
I mean, really. It's bad enough when regular people (who you can have some hope of educating/shaming/etc) say crap like this, but medical folks??
Read the post, but especially the comments on the post.
Prophetic
Hey guys: There's a difference between a little dark humor to get you through the horror... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 5:35 pm
Today I went to an exhibit on race, sponsored in large part by Mayo Clinic. With 33,000 employees in a town of 90,000 or so, they have a bit of pull and a lot of cash, and they're very good at philanthropic things.
You would think, with people coming here from all over the world for treatment, that ... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 4:29 pm
I promised this to someone on my birthday, but was out of town on the day and didn't have the book with me. So here you go, Carrie. Credit Ellen Goodman, April 1977.
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Let others freak out at turning 30 or 40. Let others greet their new decades with $12-an-ounce moisturizing cream and a... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 3:53 pm
wond'ring aloud
How we feel today...
will the years treat us well...
Gotta love Jethro Tull.
Hit one of those milestone birthdays last week. Birthdays always make me reflective, but the ending in -5 and -0 ones much more so. One of the things I've been wondering about is just how much wiser I am, re... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2010, 3:04 am
I spent Sunday afternoon not in the park with George, but at a play with a couple of people.
The play, "John Gabriel Borkman," was the 2nd to last one Henrik Ibsen wrote before being thoroughly debilitated by a stroke. You wonder if he saw it coming.
Despite having been written in the 1890s, there w... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 2:07 pm
(cue Night Ranger song here)
It's been an ... interesting ... month. It's probably unwise to put the majority of the details out here, but here's the part that's bothering me.
I got back this morning from driving a friend to the airport (90 minutes each way, with my usual detour for getting lost on ... Comment - Like
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Feb 23, 2010, 11:59 pm
Well, there's this -- note that on the self-test, I checked all but 2. (Over 14 = "off the charts.)
The Highly Sensitive Person
And then there's my Enneagram result. You can take those tests any number of places; I like Similar Minds. As I've known for years, I am an utterly rabid 5. Here, from the ... Comment - Like
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Feb 22, 2010, 12:38 am
One of the few benefits of being unattached and broke is that trading residences, one for another, is relatively easy. At least it is if you're willing to part with your stuff.
My dad was a HUGE George Carlin fan. We talked about going to his show when he came through St. Louis, it came and went wit... Comment - Like
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Feb 22, 2010, 12:07 am
I haven't watched too much of the Olympics, because honestly? Despite where I live, winter sports pretty much just don't do it for me. However, in the process of unpacking tonight and getting stuff arranged in the new digs, I happened to catch the last little bit of whatever ski race Bode Miller won... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2010, 4:57 pm
It's that time of year for that most commercial of fake holidays, you know, and the indoctrination starts early.
While the cheap boxes of chocolate and the soon-to-expire fleurs are flying out of the Bullseye, it's the kids' Valentines that get me. Puppies and kitties are still popular designs, of ... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2010, 1:37 am
I dunno. I'm not the world's most optimistic soul. (You can stop guffawing now.) But I do have a particular talent for perseveration, as a shrink once said, trying to see if I really was as smart as I think I am. (I defined it to his liking, so I guess I won that round. I didn't get a 700-and-someth... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2009, 3:31 pm
And that, friends, is the best threat to a screaming toddler I have heard not just this holiday season, but for all time. Those of you with young children, feel free to steal it. I'm sure the frazzled mom who uttered it won't mind. ;-)
Random Tales from the Bullseye, Part 2:
-- Once, my freshman yea... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 10:10 pm
Or, "I miss you, Joe McGuff."
I have an ancient, yellowed Guindon cartoon that says "Nostalgia is only bad if it causes you to go back through life." But remembering the little things that ended up being turning points isn't so bad.
I have been writing since I could hold a pencil. In first grade, I ... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2009, 10:49 pm
Or, life and death and the ever-increasing awareness of mortality in between.
Today is the birthday of one of my nieces. It is always a day of much reflection for me (whether you know it or not, Miss C), for reasons I'm not willing to get into publicly. Ask if you wanna know.
Late last night, I lear... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 6:02 pm
A cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket filled with food such as fresh corn and wild ucopias. -- fakeAPstylebook
Inspired by an old (in terms of decades known -- we're not really OLD, yet, Suz, right??) friend, herewith, my list of things to be thankful for in 2009.
In no particular order, I am thankf... Comment - Like
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