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There’s always been this hunger for fantasy. The world has always been awful, the world’s always sucked, mostly because of the things people...

A Piece of Sunset There you are, washing the egg-flipper. No. Not somewhere else, but right here, same world I inhabit. Same walls. Same bil...

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It is always exhilarating to " discover " an author one has not read before. I've mentioned this concept of "discovery...

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment,...

Everyone's talking about the election results in Maine. They voted for medical marijuana, but against gay marriage. I think voters were ...

It's what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -- Oscar Wilde -- Have a grea...

Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Prize, is on the show. I wish he were here last night. I could have used the help. During the show, the climate...

Truthfully, I have never really been a fan of Michael Jackson. Until last night. I went to see this movie. Now I want ALL of his music on m...

Aunt Elsie Not just the clanging of the dinner bell. Difficult as this is to forget. Or her shrill call. The walk-in-and-wander food pantry....

I've been sick all day. I think I am coming down with the H1N1 swine-thing, actually. My first hint was that my nostrils all of a sudde...

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and ...

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, a...

So I was walking down the street. I've walked down this street [Dalhousie Street] perhaps 18 million times. Give or take a few hundred. ...

When the paws go up to the face, this is exactly how I feel this morning! Have a great Wednesday! *********

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. -- John Donne -- Have a great Tuesday!

There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own...

In honor of Halloween I am reading a scary book, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. So far there have been no witches in the b...

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were in...

I listen to talk-radio more than I listen to music radio. The main reason is because I hate repetition. I hate when the latest hits get play...