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Dream: A Village, a Lion, and an Unusual Death

I was in the suburbs with its nice, lovely houses, and quiet, manicured lawns, yet the community was full of third world looking natives.  The dream started with a man being brought before the people who was badly burned all over.  The local doctor had a look at him but confirmed there was nothing he […]

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Stuck Inside of Memphis With the Mobile Phone Blues Again

“I hate cell phones.”
That has been my mantra against mobiles for many a year now. It has always been true too. Until recently at least. Until we moved to China, I had never owned a mobile phone. Truth is I never needed one. I’m not exactly a big telephone guy. I don’t make many calls. […]

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Ack! I’ve Got Too Much Music

With my latest batch of musical acquisitions, I have now tumbled into over 100 gigs of music on my various hard drives.  This is quite too much for my 80 gig iPod.  That is slightly misleading as some of those gigs belong to my wife and her hoards of French music, and her various language […]

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Fresh Tracks: The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Who, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, Crosby Still Nash and Young, Buddy Holly, U2 and Bob Marley

Since the last installment of Fresh Tracks, I went a little crazy. I went looking for a copy of Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for the misses. She had the record on cassette, but never bought it on CD. As I was playing her some earlier Pumpkins to cheer […]

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Has McDonalds Gone Upscale? How Bathroom Attendants Infiltrated the Fast Food Industry

Now this is just classic. Some jokers infiltrated a Manhattan McDonalds and set up an upscale bathroom. They hired a former professional attendant and brought in some toiletries. The results are just brilliant.
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Passive Agressive Much?

I’m all over trying to keep a clean microwave. Few things are more gross than trying to heat up your lunch at work only to find the microwave full of somebody’s left over pasta and popcorn. But leftover time? Really? I always figure a little leftover time is a good thing […]

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And I Thought I Had a Lot of Books

Apartment Therapy is showcasing this stylish library built into a staircase of a NY City loft. Those are steps you’re looking at in this picture, and do note the books hidden between each steps. There are more pictures in the link. That’s absolutely beautifully rendered. Man, I have a ton of […]

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Brewster with a Beard

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The Readng Journal: January - Mid February

Books Bought:
The Hot Kid - Elmore Leonard
Motocycle Diaries - Ernesto “Che” Guevara
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
Books Read:
The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto “Che” Guevara
The Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Patterson
Chew on This - Eric Schlosser and Eric Wilson
Before we left for China I packed a handful of books that I planed […]

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Random Shuffle - Louis Armstrong, Blues Traveller, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen

“Hello Dolly” - Louis Armstrong
From The Definitive Collection
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I wouldn’t begin to call myself a theatre buff. I performed in a few plays in high school. I worked for a dinner theatre in college where I did everything from run the box office, served as a waiter, ran the […]

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