tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195768542011-04-21T21:19:35.622-07:00...the state that I am in.GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-33731548603935991632006-12-21T11:07:00.000-08:002006-12-21T13:37:05.070-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">C</span>heery New Year's Resolution - having given up tobacco, red meat, daily alcohol consumption and other free radicals in the past few months, I'm adding blog commenting to my list of dietary restrictions. It's just too Meta, too <span style="font-style: italic;">Kid-A</span>, and this is, after all, the late Naughties.*<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Good Yontif, Twatwaffles</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">*<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://kittenloss.blogspot.com/">Josh</a> and the legendary (or mythical) Raven Power "secret blog" excepted.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-3373154860393599163?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1164099533465489652006-11-21T00:46:00.000-08:002006-11-21T04:13:58.196-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/Picture%201.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/Picture%201.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">L</span>ike, we're both into publishing, the internet, youth culture, pink, tearjerker movies and while I never actually read her favorite chick-lit beach book, <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=67992103"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I Am Charlotte Simmons</span>,</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">but I totally loved Wolfe's other book</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Mad-Bride-Laura-Wolf/dp/0385335830"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Diary of a Mad Bride</span></a>, so like, same thing.<br /><br />Oh, I can <span style="font-style: italic;">so </span>see it now. We're gonna like full-on relate about being hot and semitic in the magazine world and how people should just grow up and get over <span style="font-style: italic;">their </span>problems with <span style="font-style: italic;">our </span>armhair. We don't complain about you being all fat and ugly do we?<br /><br />I mean, at least not to your face.<br /><br />Whateva - me and 'Toos are <span style="font-style: italic;">tots</span> gonna be BFFs! This is gonna be AWSOME!!<br /><a href="http://www.gawker.com/news/clips/snl-parody-of-the-toos-thankfully-omits-conehead-joke-216015.php"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FALLOUTBOY!!!</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">* <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://searchresults.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=find.search&searchtarget=tpeople&amp;searchType=network&searchBoxID=HeaderWebResults&amp;interesttype=&country=&amp;searchBy=First&Submit=Find&amp;f_search_criteria=&f_first_name=charlotte%20simmons">huh</a>,</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484208/">mmm</a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.laurawolfe.com/">meh</a> and <a href="http://www.laurawolf.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">wow</span></a>.</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-116409953346548965?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1164073272490315012006-11-20T16:59:00.000-08:002006-11-20T17:47:30.360-08:00<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">L</span>ook, don't get me wrong, I <span style="font-style: italic;">love </span>booze (<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://designsponge.blogspot.com/2006/04/kiuchi-brewery.html">beer</a> in particular) and I <span style="font-style: italic;">love </span>my friends (thems what buys me beer in particular), but I'm actually getting tired of the central activity of meeting up with them being booze (or frooze for that matter.)<br /><br />Let me re-phrase - I'm tired of being a drinker around people I like.<br /><br />Isn't there something, I dunno, icky about saying, "let's go get a drink sometime" in the same way that you used to say, "wanna come over to my place and play G.I. Joe"? I don't know about you, but I think I in particular need a little air between me and that.<br /><br />Now, again, don't get me wrong. I'm no problem drinker. Time was, I was a pro-drinker (<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/feathermonster/276522055/">witness me in the twilight years of a storied career.</a>) But there has been sharp decline of local chums as of late. Sigh... if only my friends were <span style="font-style: italic;">bad </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philosophy/">Doctors of Philosophy</a> or never married their nice, rich doctor husbands, then they'd all still be licking Red Hook off the floor of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7171497/">The Twizzie</a> instead of living <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.oah.org/meetings/2000/st-louis-arch.jpg">hither</a> and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/">yon</a>.<br /><br />Losing my neighborhood beer league means I'm woefully out of practice when it comes to downing pints. I mean, at this rate I'm only drunk like twice a week - I mean <span style="font-style: italic;">can you imagine</span>?<br /><br />When I do get my drink on, its generally with the wonderful folks I like to call the Downtown Contingent. You know damn well who you are and you know dawn well that you all live on the wrong side of the river. Love y'all as I do and greatful for your love, this old man can't truck himself through <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_10108/">Peter Kalikow's Maze of Death</a> a couple of hours each way without some ill effects.<br /><br />This is all a long way of saying that since I came back from a certain <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://verbosecoma.com/">Brooklyn boy's</a> birthday <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.hamishrobertson.com/projects.php">(happy two-one big fellah</a>!) I've felt like whatever they make <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/97955589@N00/227845258/">these</a> out of.<br /><br />So we're trying this as an experiment - because the social lubricants aren't helping me slip and slide around as much as they used to and between friends and beer, I'll take friends, I'm gonna try "getting a drink" without actually drinking.<br /><br />Yes, that asshole sipping water - yeah, that's gonna be me from now until New Year's - call it an Old Year's Resolution if it makes you happy.<br /><br />So, be nice. Understand if I'm a little less moody and more restrained than normal and don't give me no funny looks when I light up a joint at <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://nymag.com/listings/bar/boat/">Boat</a>, okay?<br /><br />No, you can't fucking have any. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-116407327249031501?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1163632027390596512006-11-15T14:52:00.000-08:002006-11-15T15:09:21.126-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">D</span>iamond wars! Sex death-plagues. Madonna babynaps. Genocide. <u><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Gold mine pirates fighting an underground battle against the police!<br /></span></u><u><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></u>When the 6:30 news reads like G.I. Joe, who wouldn't <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.keepachildalive.org/">Want to Be African</a>?<br /><u><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></u><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/iamafrican2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/iamafrican2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Seriously, though - <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.keepachildalive.org/">donate</a>.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-116363202739059651?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1162335057795872942006-10-31T14:40:00.002-08:002006-10-31T14:50:57.796-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span>y father is 59, a graduate of Yale (where he hung with G.B. Trudeau and various presidential candidates from both sides of the aisle) and Harvard Law, got 1600 on his SATs, taught underprivilaged kids in Boston to avoid the draft, has been a partner at three prestigous law firms, helped draft the first versions of the "Living Will" while doing </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >pro bono </span><span style="font-size:130%;">work for the GMHC, is a longtime supporter and periodic boardmember of the City Ballet, wears custom-built shoes handcrafted in small, Northern Italian villages, assists in many charitable causes and has summered in the Hamptons since they invented sand.<br /><br />Here's what he emailed me today:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" class="EC_393004321-31102006" ><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I have to take this home and read tonite--glazing over now. Call u in the am.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Lovely what the Information Age has done to discourse, no?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-116233505779587294?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1157634709198623442006-09-07T05:56:00.000-07:002006-09-07T06:11:49.240-07:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I</span> had a dream last night - I was a contestant on <span style="font-style: italic;">Big Brother</span>. Naturally, I was the resident <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.realitytvhallofshame.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article1004.art&amp;page=1">Puck</a> and managed to make the resident <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.birminghamster.com/index080200.htm">Julie </a>(Katie Couric) cry repeatedly. When the cameras were off, however, she chased me up the house's central staircase, pinned me against a wall and choked me with her lovely, lithe fingers. "What do you think this is," she asked somewhat rhetorically, "a game?"<br /><br />Don't worry, when the cameras came back on moments later, the whole nation saw her true face. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115763470919862344?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1157346729753533362006-09-03T21:25:00.000-07:002006-09-03T22:33:11.070-07:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">P</span>roving <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.refinery29.com/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?search=Gabriel+Bell&imageField.x=12&amp;imageField.y=4"><u>my bread and butter</u></a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > tain't necessarily<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dollar_Bill"> <u>three-dollar bill</u></a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >, watch as this news wire comfortably lands between The Military Channel and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.speakers.ca/beker_jeanne.aspx"><u>FTV</u></a>:</span><br /><!-- date --><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- if ( location.hostname.toLowerCase().indexOf( "edition." ) != -1 ) { document.write('POSTED: 0047 GMT (0847 HKT), September 3, 2006'); }else { document.write('POSTED: 8:47 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2006'); }</script>POSTED: 8:47 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2006 <!-- /date --> </h5> <!--endclickprintinclude--><!--startclickprintinclude--><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">var clickExpire = "09/17/2006";</script> <span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />LONDON, England</span></b><span style="font-style: italic;"> (Reuters) -- German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released on Monday. Nazi agents relayed sensitive military information using the dots and dashes of Morse code incorporated in the drawings. They posted the letters to their handlers, hoping that counterespionage experts would be fooled by the seemingly innocent pictures. But British secret service officials were aware of the ruse and issued censors with a code-breaking guide to intercept them. The book -- part of a batch of British secret service files made public for the first time -- included an example of a code hidden in a drawing of three young models. "Heavy reinforcements for the enemy expected hourly," reads a message disguised as a decorative pattern in the stitching of their gowns, hats and blouses.</span></span><br /><h5 style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/behnaz.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/behnaz.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></h5><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Along the way pointed out by the Great leader,<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12;"><span style="font-size:100%;">we will march not sparing our lives... also, fairytale<br />romance is back with a sexy bang this fall."</span><br /><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115734672975353336?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1156278533499154502006-08-22T12:40:00.000-07:002006-08-22T13:42:11.646-07:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >s we age and slowly fill in the boxes on the list of things we'll never do or be ("piano prodigy" - check, "Tae Kwon Do Champ" - check) and our peers inch their way up various ladders, periodically letting the world know of their successes through alumni letters and Times wedding announcements, more and more we find ourselves closer to the top of that awful bell curve. Then, once and a while, </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/20/PE.NCLB/index.html">a report comes in about the next generation</a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >. (CNN)</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >They're too hefty. They're too rude. They can't spell or converse worth a damn. </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401302017">They're overstressed and underloved</a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >. Not only do these reports cancel out some of the achievements and sexual experience our younger competitors collect in middle school, but knowing that you weren't even close to fat in sixth grade - no matter how much chocolate milk you drank - gives you the schenfreude-fueled confidence to face another day of 401k-free existence.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Thank you Children of America - you truly are our greatest resource. Stay young. Stay slutty. Stay stupid. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/">Stay gold.</a></span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/wzlouisa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/wzlouisa.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115627853349915450?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1155929953271702202006-08-18T12:11:00.000-07:002006-08-18T13:11:54.850-07:00<span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >J</span>ust as fringe culture has more-or-less effectively bankrupted the terms "queer," "fag," and "n*gger" through ironic usage, so is the </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.lastnightsparty.com/cupcakeszygo/index.html">South-of-14th Squad</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> hard at work </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism">PoMo</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">-ing the </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/80/300px-Duluth-lynching-postcard.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.answers.com/topic/lynching-in-the-united-states&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=223&w=300&amp;sz=22&hl=en&amp;sig2=mtrRMzLDXgrUNHlD4wR6eA&start=3&amp;tbnid=YvXkFBA52S9M9M:&tbnh=86&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tbnw=116&ei=ERHmRIr9H7HO6AHKjLnVDg&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlynching%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG">lynch mob</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> into irrelevance. Click to witness:</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/event_omaha_courthouse_lynching.htm">Omaha, Nebraska, 1919</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.lastnightsparty.com/cupcakeszygo/slides/IMG_1182.html">Manhattan, New York, 2006</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Good work, girls. Maybe in 90 years or so, we'll have moved your lot to the bottom of the scrum. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Fingers crossed. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115592995327170220?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1155325834893093492006-08-11T12:45:00.000-07:002006-08-11T12:50:34.906-07:00<span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A </span></span>la Gawker's <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://gawker.com/news/photoshop/gwyneths-african-ad-inspires-imitators-193729.php">obsession of the day</a>:<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/Iammexican.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/Iammexican.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115532583489309349?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1154576196886264502006-08-02T20:24:00.000-07:002006-08-02T20:37:10.833-07:00<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span></span>t 11:10pm (just three minutes ago) a recently naturalized Californian friend called while celebrating her first, true West-Coast earthquake (</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40187964.html">a respectable 4.4.</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">) She was most excited about the prospects of her newly purchased shelves collapsing and crushing her two Manhattan-born cats, which would have saved her $1,000 (her condo required a $500 deposit for each feline.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The New Yorker inside doesn't die easy.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115457619688626450?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1154545682691216132006-08-02T11:11:00.001-07:002006-08-02T16:03:14.526-07:00<p class="ap-story-p" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sep 5, 2009 5:46 EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">TEHRAN, IRAN (AP) - Christopher E. Hitchens, the celebrated journalist, essayist and literary critic whose over 30-year career spanned styles, continents and political ideologies, died today during a combined Allied air strike on a reported insurgent stronghold on the outskirts of the city. He was 60.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">Hitchens, whose well-read works ranged from tabloid-like coverage of American culture to almost academic books on the nature of politics and religion, was in the region at an American Air Force base in neighboring <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Kuwait</st1:country-region></st1:place> as part of his "Glorious War Tour" while promoting his most recent book <i>Regan: Grace in Crisis</i>. <o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">After emigrating from his native <st1:country-region st="on">England</st1:country-region>, where he received a degree at <st1:placename st="on">Oxford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype>, to the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1981, Hitchens worked for a wide variety of publications including <i>The Nation</i>, <i>The Independent</i>, <i>Spy</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i> and <i>Shock</i>. Hitchen's style and focus was almost unavoidably political and inflammatory, usually consisting of reasoned, if inordinately impassioned attacks on various ideologies (fascism, liberalism, Islamism) or public figures (Noam Chomsky, St. Teresa of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Calcutta</st1:place></st1:city>, Henry Kissinger). In one of political literature's more discussed sea changes, Hitchens, once a liberal Trotskyite, publicly converted to a personalized form of neoconservatism in response to various grievances with the foreign policies of<span class="body"> the first <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:city> administration. His altered stance was only hardened after the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">Recent months had seen him softening his position on liberalism and openly supporting President Clinton's current campaign in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p"><!-- BEGIN MEDIA BOX NUMBER 4 --><!-- END MEDIA BOX NUMBER 4 -->During this, his third trip to the region in as many months, Hitchens had been seen enjoying his free time in the company of pilots and loading crews of the 4404th Air Expeditionary Wing stationed here at Ali Al Salem Air Base. It appears that last night Hitchens managed to convince the crew of a B52-H to take him on board for it night mission over the pockmarked edges of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s former capital. <span class="body"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">While details remain unconfirmed, it appears, through a </a><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Slim-pickens_riding-the-bomb.jpg">released night-vision photo</a>, that Hitchens climbed atop one of the larger conventional warheads in the B52-H's bomb bay only seconds before the crew released its payload on target. The Air Force has launched a full investigation and an unnamed Defense Department official stated on the condition of anonymity that he expects the crew to face disciplinary charges calling the incident, "an egregious lapse in battlefield judgment."<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="ap-story-p">Hitchens is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, their daughter Antonia, and two other children, Alexander and Sophia, from a pervious marriage. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115454568269121613?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1153934736458975412006-07-26T10:17:00.000-07:002006-07-26T10:25:36.466-07:00<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >I</span>'m a halfway decent crossworder, but even on a relatively easy Wednesday, W. Shortz had me stumped for a good while on this one:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;">26 (Across) Writer/Edior Brown</span><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic;">_ _ NA</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oh well, ou_ of s_gh_, ou_ of m_nd. </span><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115393473645897541?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1152147773375003552006-07-05T17:26:00.000-07:002006-07-05T18:03:31.346-07:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >S</span>o lately, I've been dreaming about playing bass. Almost every night the same thing, playing bass. Sometimes I'm doing a little Peter Hook thing - tight, repetitive, undeniable. Other times it's deep, looping and somehow gentlemanly - think John Paul Jones. Rarely is it jazzy and never is it slap-happy. So what's all this say about my noggin? </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />According to Freud, all kinds of playing (playing instruments also)... are symbols of masturbation... Various rhythmic activities... symbolize sexual intercourse itself. Typical activities that symbolize sexual intercourse are also climbing and going down a ladder... </span>(<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.psychicjournal.com/archives/000410/000410f2.htm">via Psychic Journal</a>)<br /><br />I guess we'll never know.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/jaco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/jaco.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115214777337500355?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1150354428534646042006-06-14T23:33:00.000-07:002006-06-14T23:58:31.100-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Y</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >ou know those talented, young writers - </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >those bright lights of word, thought and action -</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > who find success </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >greyhound </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >swift?<br /></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br />The </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/clubhouse?team=min">Minnesota Wild</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > hired sports writer Chris Snow on Wednesday to be their new director of hockey operations. Snow, 24, who covers the Red Sox for the Boston Globe, will begin his new job later this summer. </span><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2484480"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >(AP via CNN)</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/chrissnow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/chrissnow.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Yeah, I hates them bitches too.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115035442853464604?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1150163661796905842006-06-12T18:24:00.000-07:002006-06-12T19:11:03.173-07:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/12/polar.bears.ap/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>annibal Bears?(CNN)</a> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Jesus, it's getting <a href="http://tstiami.blogspot.com/2006/05/bears-eat-monkey.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">worse</span></a> out there.</span><br /><br /></span></span><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/bearsfighting.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/bearsfighting.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br />"This is not a Coca-Cola commercial," <span style="font-style: italic;">Deborah Williams, </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Executive Director of the Alaska Conservation Foundation </span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/bears.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/bears.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Oh, but if it where, Deb, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colaadv.html">but if it were.</a> </span> </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/coke.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/coke.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-115016366179690584?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1147798330473860272006-05-16T09:41:00.000-07:002006-05-16T09:52:10.493-07:00<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O</span></span>r more specifically, </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/16/bear.monkey.ap/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"sloth bears scarf macaque."(CNN)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's like you can't trust a </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">damn</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ewldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kipling.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">thing</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Kipling wrote anymore.</span><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/tbears.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/tbears.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:85%;" >The victim and an attacker in happier times. </span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114779833047386027?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1147389275513537852006-05-11T16:08:00.000-07:002006-05-11T16:14:35.526-07:00<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Y</span>ou: tweak your ankle playing basketball, climbing rocks, running for the subway or jogging the 10k.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: georgia;">I: dislocate my knee dirty dancing with the bride-to-be during an ersatz bachelorette party drunk on cheap champagne at the local gay bar.<br /><br />I'll trade with you any day.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114738927551353785?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1147110705297928112006-05-08T09:29:00.000-07:002006-05-08T14:25:19.090-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >I</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">'m loathe to post anything caught from the superegotastjossisthenewjaredtunainthatway blog roundabout, but once in a while...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Before we all </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drop+bows">drop 'bows</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> on </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/05/08/pete_doherty_displays_blood_pa.html">Mr. Babyshambles' blood art</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">...</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/dohertybloodST050506_300x450.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/dohertybloodST050506_300x450.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">...I think it best to review other aesthetic experiments from other troubadours with sober respect. Consider, </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1085337/a/Self+Portrait.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Self Portrait"</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">(1970):</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/dylanportrait.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/dylanportrait.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Obviously, Dylan's self-caricature album art is technically and stylistically superior to Doherty's <i>faux</i>-outsider-art needle drippings. "Self Portrait," however, is highly derivative and, all sympathies to the artist, sadly transparent in its pretensions. Informed by five decades of modernism, Dylan, in a mode typical of his less rigorous musical excursions, borrows the gravitas and assumed candor of his influences without bothering to engage himself in similar internal examination. Borrowing heavily from Picasso, the artist has bypassed the process of forcibly devolving from practiced and conscious draftsmanship toward instinctual and "honest" art. Instead, he has simply co-opted the visual language of early-Modern artistic intimacy - signaling a supposed frankness with an already corrupted idiom. Granted, displaying a cliché self portrait as a replacement for the actual words "Self Portrait" on an album called "Self Portrait" might have been a clever post-modern gesture - inviting future listeners into an environment where self-conscious incorporations of denuded styles have replaced strictly verbal language, where words and musical appropriations have become derived of original meanings and are purely figurative in use, where confession dies at utterance. In such systematic dishonesty, the artist would be revealing the ultimate impossibility of self-analysis - the indivisible and inexplicable nature of the self - thus striking a blow against a hundred years of scientific and psychological brutality in the name of an open, inscrutable humanism. His obvious mimicking of Picasso's style, however, reveals the rather unpalatable possibility that Dylan is simply attempting a historical and commercial elision of his oeuvre with that of the modern master. Rationally, this is the most available analysis, and we cannot avoid the notion that the artist desired such an association in all its cynical and pathetic implications. In the end, "Self Portrait" comprises a rather condescending gesture.</p><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Now, Dave Navarro's </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://notfornothing.net/articles/spin701p1.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Heroin Syringe Blood on Ceiling of Playboy Mansion Orgy Room "</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">(ca. 2000)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/stain110105b.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/stain110105b.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Honest, confessional, brutal, and truthful, this simple installation compells the viewer to question his/her somatic relationship to sacred space and the practice of looking at art itself. A graceful contribution to an ongoing dialog, one cannot help but imagine that Navarro, no matter his faults, is hard as fuck. </span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Instinctual in his applications and appropriations, but cynically conscious of their effects, Doherty's work occupies a profane space between the confrontational candor of Navarro, the reluctant participant in a particular economy of exploitation, and the commerical savvy of Dylan, the master thief of the modern market. In a final analysis, the viewer of "Blood Paintings" is left gutted and perplexed, wondering after his/her place in the greater dialog of identity and how in the hell the artist remains a free man.</span><br /></div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114711070529792811?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1143486854623139822006-03-27T11:13:00.000-08:002006-03-27T12:15:49.663-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><font>W</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><font><font><font><font><font><font>ho do we trust today, the needlessly coy...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><font><em><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deborah Solomon:</span> </em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><em>Which magazines do you subscribe to?<br /></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font>Bonnie Fuller:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font>I don't subscribe to any magazines. Subscriptions come too late for me and I am too impatient. 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style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span 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style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><font> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><font></span><span style="font-style: italic;">What's a typical morning like for you?</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mr. Met:</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span 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style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> I wake up at Shea Stadium, and the first thing I do is read the newspaper. I'm a huge sports fan, obviously, so the first place I go to is the sports section. 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I am really hoping to make "Page Six" one of these days. I keep checking!</span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/atwork/63688.htm"></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> [NYPost @Work]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114348685462313982?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1143403103227007422006-03-26T11:32:00.000-08:002006-03-26T12:04:21.276-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">o you miss college? Do you miss marinating in a heady sauce of ideas and opinions and the joys of unfettered philosophical inquiry?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Dr. Bell prescribes </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">two minutes at </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.brokenthought.org/">BrokenThought.org</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">, an offshoot of the Columbia University community created by paid (yes, paid) scholars. I guarentee, just one visit will cure all academic nostalgia.*</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">*Side effects may include rage blackouts, willfull illiteracy and antipathy to anyone wearing elbow patches.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114340310322700742?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1142402313828988342006-03-14T21:52:00.000-08:002006-03-14T21:59:57.696-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">O</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">ther than desiring the stature, coordination and stamina to regularly dunk a basketball, the only thing I really want to change about my body is my prominent nipples. Decades of friendly poking and tweaking have left me feeling like some perverse version of Poppin' Fresh.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/dough011602_big.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/dough011602_big.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tee-hee.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114240231382898834?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141968664226437452006-03-09T21:29:00.000-08:002006-03-09T21:31:04.260-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span></span>acklit for a different look.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/cellphonecartooning4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/cellphonecartooning4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114196866422643745?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141965980940848362006-03-09T20:43:00.000-08:002006-03-09T20:46:20.960-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" >J</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">ust one more for now.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/cellphonecartooning3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/cellphonecartooning3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Creepy - and I'm starting to feel bad for the kid.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114196598094084836?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141964280585967152006-03-09T20:09:00.001-08:002006-03-09T20:18:28.720-08:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">e're going all "Goodnight and Good Luck" on this muth!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/cellphonecartooning2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/cellphonecartooning2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /> <span style="font-family: georgia;">Silver-toned black and white captured on a Motorola v276 - classy. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114196428058596715?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141956185156168272006-03-09T17:57:00.000-08:002006-03-09T20:22:50.133-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">P</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">erhaps for the first time anywhere, funnypages created barside for digital viewing worldwide.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/cellphonecartooning.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/cellphonecartooning.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Amazing the things we can do. No?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114195618515616827?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141752017547761772006-03-07T09:15:00.000-08:002006-03-07T09:24:42.950-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">n old friend sent this local blotter item about an equally old friend who, it seems, has fallen on rough times. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />KENT — Three people face felony burglary charges after police said they broke into a man's home while he attended his son's funeral earlier this month and stole several rifles and shotguns.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" class="text" ><p>Rachel Thorn, 27, and her husband, Clayton Thorn, 30, both of Richardsville Road, and Daniel O'Connor, 27, of Peekskill Hollow Road were arrested Monday by Detective Gerald Locascio and charged with third-degree burglary.</p><p>The three were arraigned before Town Justice Joseph Esposito, who released them without bail and ordered them to appear Dec. 20 in Town Court.</p><p>The victim discovered the burglary at his Peekskill Hollow Road home about 2:35 p.m. Nov. 3 after returning home from the funeral of his 32-year-old son, police said. The Thorns and O'Connor live near the victim, although police could not say if they knew the homeowner would be at his son's funeral.</p><p>The Thorns have at least one daughter, who was born last November.</p><p>Officer Michael Crawford handled the initial call and turned the case over to Locascio. Carmel police assisted in the investigation.</p><p>Police allege that the three stole items worth more than $2,300. They included several Winchester rifles, shotguns, ammunition, scopes, an air compressor and two nail guns. Police have recovered most of the items. <font><span class="text" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p></span><p></p><p></p><font><font><a href="http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/NEWS02/512010378/1017"><span class="text" style="font-family:georgia;"><p><font><span class="text" style="font-family:georgia;">(<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Journal News</span>)</span></span></p></span></a></span></span><p></p><p></p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><font><font><font><font><font> C'mon Clayton - I know Duchess County living can be rough, but you're better than that. I mean, an air compressor? Really.</span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114175201754776177?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141748629702825762006-03-07T08:18:00.000-08:002006-03-07T08:24:34.673-08:00<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000062H/sr=8-1/qid=1141748485/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6626941-2760847?%5Fencoding=UTF8"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"T</span></span>alking Timbuktu"</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">was pretty much my soundtrack for Fall 1998. It was a pretty relaxed time.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://deathbeeper.com/1740423.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Ali Farka Toure 1939-2006.</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114174862970282576?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141623290257364122006-03-05T21:31:00.000-08:002006-03-05T21:39:40.176-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> need your help on this one here, people. <a href="http://www.santinorice.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Santino Rice</span></a>: endearingly caustic or loveably hateful?<br /><br />I mean, yeah, he's both. But if you could only choose one...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114162329025736412?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141416808881997702006-03-03T12:04:00.000-08:002006-03-03T12:16:42.496-08:00<span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">I</span></strong>n the darkness of my bedroom this morning, I reached for my daily, prescribed </span><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.medscape.com/pi/features/drugdirectory/octupdate/FOR20100.jpg&imgrefurl=http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/drugs/drug-63990-Lexapro%2BOral.aspx%3Fdrugid%3D63990%26drugname%3DLexapro%2BOral%26pagenumber%3D2&amp;amp;amp;h=216&w=288&amp;sz=55&tbnid=Gi9VdAy9dY41aM:&amp;amp;amp;tbnh=82&tbnw=110&amp;hl=en&ei=aKIIRJiLA6SIaIKFiOoD&amp;sig2=sq_fP1INZYH2Wp0CARr3Lw&start=35&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlexapro%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;">X</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> and almost wound up swallowing one of my wholly recreational </span><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.medscape.com/pi/features/drugdirectory/octupdate/FOR20100.jpg&imgrefurl=http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/drugs/drug-63990-Lexapro%2BOral.aspx%3Fdrugid%3D63990%26drugname%3DLexapro%2BOral%26pagenumber%3D2&amp;amp;amp;h=216&w=288&amp;sz=55&tbnid=Gi9VdAy9dY41aM:&amp;amp;amp;tbnh=82&tbnw=110&amp;hl=en&ei=aKIIRJiLA6SIaIKFiOoD&amp;sig2=sq_fP1INZYH2Wp0CARr3Lw&start=35&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlexapro%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ff0000;">Y</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">s. Would have made for an interesting day working alongside the CoEds at Columbia.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114141680888199770?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1141245120125385762006-03-01T12:24:00.000-08:002006-03-01T15:12:12.046-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >H</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">ey, hey - you've got some shmutz on your forehead there. <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday">Oh, really? Sorry, I always forget.</a> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114124512012538576?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1140847643704541892006-02-24T21:55:00.000-08:002006-02-24T22:08:53.483-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" >W</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">alking home tonight I realized that of all the books I could have stolen when I worked as a page in the Chappaqua Public Library at the age of thirteen,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: georgia;"> </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim">Bruno Bettelheim's</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: georgia;"> </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679723935/002-7276849-2785631?v=glance&n=283155"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Uses of Enchantment </span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">was a pretty fucked up choice. No, I still haven't read it.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114084764370454189?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1140820517042437062006-02-24T14:28:00.000-08:002006-02-24T14:35:51.673-08:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ehold this humble code redressed and repurposed for our favorite </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://thekatieshow.blogspot.com/">Stella-swiggin' Master of Social Work.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Link to </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://thekatieshow.blogspot.com/">The Katie Show.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">God help you.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114082051704243706?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1140816918717602402006-02-24T13:26:00.000-08:002006-02-24T13:38:22.883-08:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">hich liberal method comedian zinged:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">President Bush has painted himself into a corner on this issue, and he needs a face-saving compromise to get out of it. Here's my proposal: Let Harriet Miers run the ports.<br /></span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=101">Click to reveal.</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Looks, trenchent wit and a fanatical Kaufman-like devotion to satrical caricature that makes Stephen Colbert look like Jimmy Fallon - I see a college tour with David Cross in someone's future.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114081691871760240?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1140765069457990382006-02-23T22:43:00.001-08:002006-02-23T23:12:14.113-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://prendergastlibrary.org/Extra%21Extra%21/Swedish%20King/King%20&%20Indian%20Chief.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://prendergastlibrary.org/Extra%21Extra%21/Swedish%20King/King%20&%20Indian%20Chief.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >C</span>arl XVI Gustaf (</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >) His Royal Majesty, The King of Sweden and the Chief of the local Seneca tribe talk shop in </span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Chautauqua County, New York - 'mid 1970's.</span><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-114076506945799038?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1139642903254215612006-02-10T23:10:00.000-08:002006-02-10T23:32:33.816-08:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>“O</b></span>k, so hundreds of thousands of viewers visit our site every day hungry for knowledge, and by God they find it. But the <i>cool</i> quotient - we don’t have the <i>cool </i>quotient. I want our readers to think we’re authorities on everything under God’s glorious fucking canopy - including <i>cool</i>! I want you to be our point man on <i>cool. </i>So get out there with your pens and your J-school degree and find me <i>cool</i>. Find out what’s <i>cool</i>.<i> </i>Get under <i>cool’s </i>skin. What's happening today in <i>cool</i>? Answers! That’s what I want! <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/10/cool.ap/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Nail it, define it, refine it and get me 600 words by sundown - and spellchecked dammit! </span></a>Ok... what's next?”<br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/10/cool.ap/index.html"><br />Link to CNN’s cool.</a></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113964290325421561?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1139536657816943522006-02-09T17:20:00.000-08:002006-02-09T18:04:41.156-08:00<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Y</span>ou little liar, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/myfirstalbum/story/8857226/conor_oberst_of_bright_eyes_on_the_cures_standing_on_a_beach">it was "Pump" and you know it.</a> (Via Rolling Stone) That's it, Boy Wonder, just add another knuckle sandwich to your running tab.<br /><br />Anyways, I have a difficult time remembering that far back, but if memory serves...<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br />1^st</span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >Vinyl LP - was either <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.mildreds-antiques.com/images/best_record_27.jpg">this</a> or <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.algonet.se/%7Ebassman/album/patw.html">this</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" >1^st</span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >Cassette - pretty sure I shoplifted <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1087811/a/Toys+In+The+Attic.htm">this one</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" >1^st</span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >Compact Disk - Hmmmm, was it <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10660000/10661277.jpg">this</a>? Nah, it was probably <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LHA/sr=8-2/qid=1139536387/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-7714736-2203943?%5Fencoding=UTF8">this</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;" >1^st</span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >iTunes Download - Was <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.modestmousemusic.com/">this</a>. Think I can refund it for <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.foothillcougars.com/justforfun/classicrock/ACDC/acdc%20highway.jpg">this</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">?</span></span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:12;" ></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113953665781694352?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1139507328317296722006-02-09T09:28:00.000-08:002006-02-09T09:53:28.166-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >W</span>hen I was young, I always knew that the weekend block of children's programming was over on PBS when the dot-matrix credits for "Wall $treet Week" rolled out and the craggy visage of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nndb.com/people/440/000022374/">Louis Rukeyser</a> took over the screen. Thus did I always associate the question of money markets with the end of happy times and thus did I embark upon a series of choices that led me down the road of almost total financial ignorance. But today's children... well, they live in a greater, wider world:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Soon... children everywhere will have the chance to amass financial wisdom from a cartoon version of the man known as the Oracle of Omaha, Reuters reported yesterday. [Warren] Buffett is going to star in "The Secret Millionaire's Club," a DVD series for children 5 to 12. Produced by DIC Entertainment, with headquarters in Burbank, Calif., and shares listed in London, the 13-title series, featuring the words, voice and likeness of Mr. Buffett, tells of an unscrupulous developer accumulating properties in Omaha and foreclosing on the local youth center. Four children raise money to rescue the center and turn to Mr. Buffett for weekly financial and investment advice. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">(</span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/09arts.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&amp;oref=slogin"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">From Arts, Briefly in the NYT</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Cool, hunh? Like </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086999/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> without all the </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://rap.about.com/library/blbreakdancetoprock.htm">toprocking.</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> God willing, no latchkey kid will ever enter puberty without knowing how to spot an undervalued local utility with a low-price-to-earning ratio.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113950732831729672?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1139455199416425452006-02-08T19:13:00.000-08:002006-02-08T19:20:54.460-08:00<span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">G</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">orillaz igned a special military helmet to be auctioned off for the </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >War Child</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" > charity. The cartoon band's effort is available to bid for now at </span><a style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ebaby.co.uk/" target="_blank">ebay.co.uk</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >. It is the only one of its kind in existence. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >Gorillaz' Russel</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>said of the initiative, in conjunction with the movie '</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >Jarhead': "War Child</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" > do a fantastic job of helping the victims of conflict, providing the exact kind of long-term support that children in these areas so desperately need. </span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-style: italic;">But they do need funds in order to continue their work. So in an effort to raise money for the organisation I've drawn a dead duck on the side of one of these helmets." </span>(<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nme.com/news/gorillaz/22164">article at NME.com</a>)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br />It's funny </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">how sometimes </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">fictional people can be more generous than most real ones.<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113945519941642545?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1139440788893956742006-02-08T14:45:00.001-08:002006-02-08T15:23:55.586-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">R</span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">ight now, on the opposite side of my block, media and mourners stand outside the wake for Israel "Izz" Rameriez, the part-time bodyguard who was shot and killed under the employ of Busta Rhymes at one of the rapper's video shoots (</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=9&aid=56952">link to story</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">). I passed the funeral parlor and </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Rameriez' </span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> house on the way home from errands. Without a doubt, this is the biggest, most exciting thing to happen 'round 106th street since </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1282.html">this.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Oh, and I heard some children's show host from the50's took a header off the top of my building.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">I feel like a superstar just walking outside!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113944078889395674?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1138914897256578222006-02-02T12:57:00.001-08:002006-02-02T13:35:27.396-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >E</span>ven though the calendar from <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=0&restaurantid=914&amp;neighborhoodid=0&cuisineid=62">Hunan Balcony</a> says it's the year of the dog, it</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > seems canine abuse may be <span style="font-style: italic;">in</span> for 2006 (along with </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Vikings, geyser explosions and ragtime music).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><a href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=6&aid=56794">Puppies Being Used to Smuggle Drugs (NY1)</a><br /><a href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=6&amp;aid=56794"><br /></a><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/02/02/goodbye.aibo.ap/index.html">Sony Puts Robot Dog to Sleep (CNN)</a><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span>Expect to see "Red Hook Stray Dog Safari" notices on <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://nonsensenyc.com/">NonsenseNYC</a> in the coming weeks. <span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113891489725657822?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1138652487138351082006-01-30T12:17:00.000-08:002006-01-30T12:22:45.270-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><font>I</span></span><font><font><font>t’s 62°, sunny, and time to squander your education at Manhattan’s best beach.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/dayatthebeach.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/dayatthebeach.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113865248713835108?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1138338322377656172006-01-26T21:01:00.000-08:002006-01-26T23:42:38.506-08:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;">T</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">errorists Win Crucial Victory Against Terror.</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/talk%20about%20your%20green%20parties.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/talk%20about%20your%20green%20parties.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113833832237765617?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1137042619916361282006-01-11T21:06:00.000-08:002006-01-11T21:10:19.926-08:00<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span></span>ritish actress SIENNA MILLER has filled her house with artwork she has created by rubbing her paint-covered breasts over canvases.<br /></span><br />Soooo... a minimalist, right?<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/sienna-miller/sienna-miller-naked-painter-000799"><span style="font-size:85%;">Link to Egotastic</span>.</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113704261991636128?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1136987760433041072006-01-11T05:40:00.001-08:002006-01-11T05:57:30.886-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/11/sleep.inertia.reut/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/11/sleep.inertia.reut/index.html">o there you have it.</a><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" > I told you I was okay. Just a little trouble waking up. Frankly, I'm offended that you would imply anything else. Now please, I have a very long day ahead of me and this grass isn't going to guard itself.</span><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/drunk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/drunk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113698776043304107?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1135825550757914162005-12-28T18:53:00.003-08:002005-12-28T19:11:27.913-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >P</span>ublicity picked a sweater that would emphasize Scarlett's very real acting ability, as opposed to something else. Still...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/scarlett-johansson-match-point-photo-call-01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/scarlett-johansson-match-point-photo-call-01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dress her in the Berlin Wall, and you'd still find a velvet curve or two.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113582555075791416?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1135802890602949152005-12-28T12:13:00.000-08:002005-12-28T14:18:46.843-08:00<font><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span><span style="font-size:100%;">ttention - all hands on deck for CNN's breathless coverage of baby Noor, the hottest cause celeb straight out of the "Why We Fight" file.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/story.baby.3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/story.baby.3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><font>F<span style="font-size:100%;">ROM CNN.com:</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">When troops from the Georgia National Guard raided a Baghdad home in early December in search of insurgents, they discovered a baby girl with a severe case of spina bifida. Doctors believe she has only a short time to live without medical attention. Their goal now is to get her to Atlanta where a neurosurgeon has promised to perform a delicate operation free. "We ... collectively decided this is going to be our project," said Sgt. Michael Sonen. "If this is the only contribution we have to defeating the war on terrorism, this is going to be it."<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Indeed,<font> curing spina bifida may be the best</span></span><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><span style="font-size:100%;"> way to win the War on Terror from the jump seat of an <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.army-technology.com/projects/abrams/">M1A1</a>.<br /><br /></span><font><span style="font-size:100%;">Good work Guardsmen, seriously. Now, if only the 10th Mountain Division would shell Morningside Heights, I might be able to get someone to look into my pesky back aches.<br /><br />For <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/12/28/iraq.spinabifida/index.html">details</a>, an<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/28/chambliss.lin/index.html"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">interview with Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss</span></a>, and more little <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/12/28/iraqikids.surgery.ap/index.html">Iraqi munchkins saved by America's divine beneficence</a>, go to <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/12/28/iraq.spinabifida/index.html">CNN</a>. Thinking ahead, the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lowculture.com/">Low Culture</a>* hydra already has <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lowculture.com/archives/2005/12/no_nation_in_hi_1.html">a moving list of even more inspirational house calls</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />*BTW - LC's last post was the 12th. Have they gone the way of TOTC and the Spinch Dip, or are they simply giving their gallbladders a rest during the holidays?</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113580289060294915?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1135444893582711612005-12-24T09:20:00.000-08:002005-12-24T09:21:33.596-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/xmas3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/xmas3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113544489358271161?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134972793554195182005-12-18T22:10:00.000-08:002005-12-18T22:15:04.016-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O</span>ur parent's generation has seen great strides in ice cream and related technologies.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vintagedepotdirect.com/media/TV29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.vintagedepotdirect.com/media/TV29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113497279355419518?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134579147839645282005-12-14T08:52:00.000-08:002005-12-14T08:55:09.520-08:00<span style="font-family:Wide Latin;font-size:130%;">I</span><span style="font-family:Baskerville Old Face;font-size:130%;">’d really just rather not die. I mean, I know at some point in my life I’m gonna have to – but I’d just as soon live – wrinkles and goiters and all - thank you very much. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Baskerville Old Face;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Baskerville Old Face;font-size:130%;">That said, if I have to go some 80+ years from now, I request morning, evening, or deep into the night. There’s something about going at 2:48pm that would just suck.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113457914783964528?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134513153750151502005-12-13T14:23:00.000-08:002005-12-13T14:34:43.053-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >B</span><span style="font-family:georgia;">eing male, laundry day is strictly an “out of ‘roos” affair, which can get tricky when your days are packed like mine.<br /><br />Thank God for cold snaps and longjohns.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/longjohns.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/longjohns.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113451315375015150?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134333917660381522005-12-11T12:40:00.000-08:002005-12-11T13:37:10.756-08:00<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.omodern.com/Eurobad/euro.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span>here the heart is.</a><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.omodern.com/Eurobad/euro09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.omodern.com/Eurobad/euro09.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks to Dana and <a href="http://www.omodern.com/">Omodern</a><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113433391766038152?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134065675201054112005-12-08T10:14:00.000-08:002005-12-08T10:14:35.230-08:00<span style="font-family:Wide Latin;font-size:130%;">D</span><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;">ear Mr. O’Reilly,</span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As we gather around our Christmas tree, we shall remember how your efforts have kept the spirit of the holiday alive in our pagan hearts and toast your health with the finest copped liver money can buy. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;">God bless you and God bless America,</span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;">The Bell Family</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113406567520105411?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1134021977981996542005-12-07T22:06:00.000-08:002005-12-07T22:09:44.616-08:00<span style=";font-family:Wide Latin;font-size:130%;" >Y</span><span style=";font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;" >ou know, </span><em><span style=";font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;" >Moby Dick </span></em><span style=";font-family:Sylfaen;font-size:130%;" >is long-due for a new Hollywood treatment.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113402197798199654?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1133970721504567442005-12-07T07:52:00.000-08:002005-12-07T10:05:11.826-08:00<span style="font-family:Wide Latin;font-size:130%;">S</span><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">POILER ALERT!:</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">{Rondel and Jared walk away. Jack turns back to his car. Suddenly he stops. Close up - cell phone attached to Jack’s belt. Screen is lit. Close up – phone display, “Caller Unknown”. Jack holds up phone, pauses, answers.}</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Voice on phone: Jack?</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Jack Bauer: Who is this? </span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Voice: That’s not important right now. What’s important is that I have something very precious of yours and if you don’t do exactly what I tell you, I might just have to break it… or should I say </span><em><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">her. </span></em><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Jack Bauer: You have Kim?</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Voice: Oh no Jack, she’s safe – for now. Hold on a sec Jack, I just want you to say hello to your favorite cousin; she’s our… </span><em><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">guest </span></em><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">for the moment. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Jack Bauer: You kidnapped Lucy! Now listen you if so much as…</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Voice: Lucy?</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Jack Bauer: Yeah.</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Voice: No, no – Shelly. We have </span><em><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Shelly</span></em><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">.</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;font-size:130%;">Jack Bauer: Shelly? Oh yeah, Shelly…&nbsp;&nbsp;you bastard!</span><br/><span style="font-family:Century Schoolbook;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113397072150456744?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1133812581936389302005-12-05T11:39:00.001-08:002005-12-05T12:05:24.293-08:00See, some people might not know that Major League<br />Baseball Comissioner <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bud Selig</span> is Jewish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/473-selig_bud.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/320/473-selig_bud.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />But the <span style="font-style: italic;">Daily News </span>is on top of the story.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/2005_12_syankeesloss.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/200/2005_12_syankeesloss.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Good journalism, all in the details.<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/371464p-316044c.html"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Daily News</span>: "</a><span class="head"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/371464p-316044c.html">Yanks losing at Money Ball"</a><br /><a href="http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/12/05/losing_money_ha.php"><span style="font-style: italic;">Gothamist</span>: "Losing Money Hand Over Fist"</a><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113381258193638930?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1133755047700443322005-12-04T19:46:00.000-08:002005-12-04T20:10:51.120-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.heru-ur.org/maanetjer/ammit/Ammit02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.heru-ur.org/maanetjer/ammit/Ammit02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I don't know about you, but I'm with the Egyptians. When you die, Anubis weighs your heart against the feather of Ma'at, and, if it's weighed down with bad deeds, he throws it into Ammit's mouth, consigning your soul to oblivion or what have you.<br /><br />I mean, look, I can understand that some people in this world might not want to belive that a giant crocodile could eat their soul...<br /><br />..but that's just not me.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113375504770044332?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19576854.post-1133752307888272782005-12-04T19:09:00.000-08:002006-03-01T15:11:31.980-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/1600/cat.1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/25/192/400/cat.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"We cool man, we cool - just, just put it down man - put it down - we can<br />work this out - Sharlee never said she was married."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19576854-113375230788827278?l=tstiami.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>GBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135432742897679181noreply@blogger.com0