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Value
Nobody likes pictures of naked women, of course. . . unless they sell for $170 million. That's $170,000,000.00. Keep the change ($.4 million). If you weren't the lucky buyer of this painting...
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The Face of Social Justice
Here's a photo of one of the biggest assholes of the week. You've already seen it, I'm sure, but if not, watch this. She teaches media for the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Her...
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Carol Doda, RIP
I thought she was, but she wasn't. Now she is. Carol Doda, the "8th Wonder of the World," died Monday at the age of 78. It began with the Republicans, of course. She was the first topless dancer,...
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Article 2
I just wrote a massive rant about the Lonely Children of China. Now that the One Child policy has changed, they all feel lonely. "We are a selfish, spoiled generation," they say. "Now we are left...
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Idealized Lives
I found this photo on a Flickr account by someone identified only as RM. I tried doing a Google search, but couldn't find any other information on the photographer. I love this photograph, and I...
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What You're Looking For
It was going to be a quiet weekend, a monastic one full of self-care and healing. Saturday began early with coffee and the news, so I got to the gym early. It was empty, so there was no fighting. It...
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A Light for the Night
A lazy Sunday, soft and gentle. I didn't get out of bed until nine. And finally it was time to have brunch out of doors at my favorite Italian restaurant. A walk on the Boulevard, then some chores...
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An Arrogance of Knowing
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law. Is it true, or is it only our description of the way the world is constructed? Who knows? Our understanding of the world...
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Making Crackle
I've committed to the Hillbilly Holidays. I will visit my mother's relatives for Thanksgiving. My only true concern is the cat. Otherwise, why the hell not? Hell, I may even take pictures. That...
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A Quiet Mind
Most of us have lived the majority of our lives during the War. It has been expensive and has practically bankrupted the country. But it seems "we" have targeted the wrong enemy. Truly it has been...
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Genetically Modified Syphilis
My mornings are changing. I just can't read the news anymore. I look at headlines and pass or I skim an article and realize I don't care. A few catch my interest like today's story on the...
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"It Is What It Is"
I am completely at a loss as to what Adele is, but it is all I see each morning on CNN online. "25", the long awaited. . . . So just now I Googled her and listened to some snatches of songs. Whoa!...
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I'm Pretty Sure Other People Are Happier
I watched a movie you might want to skip. No, simply skip "End of the Tour," the film about David Foster Wallace. Did it get good reviews? I read that it did, but I didn't research that. Nobody...
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A Morning with Rolling Stone
Holy shit--I was right!!! This is the worst stuff I've heard since Billy Joel/Elton John (link). What has happened to SNL? I haven't watched it for many, many years, but. . . really? I clicked some...
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A Little Light for the Night
Finally, the weather changes. I had my heater on for the first time Monday as low temperatures went down to fifty degrees. The sky is clear blue, the light diamond bright. And the cat, who has slept...
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Thankful
I slept well, woke up sick. That is the way of the world, though. Microbes will get us all in the end. We will find out that all things that plague humans are microbial in nature, no matter what we...
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It's Not the Kids, It's the Parents
I drove my mother to the relatives for Thanksgiving yesterday. I was feeling punky, so it was a chore to get going. But my mother cheered me up. She hates my driving, so it was all just peachy as I...
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Stardust and Gold and a Billion Year Old Carbon
A beach window with a Christmas sign, the sort that I like, old fashioned and rich. Thanksgiving over--it is Christmas now. My relatives left after the sun went down last night to stand in line at...
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What Are You Doing?
Man, I had a hard time yesterday making pictures. It has been a long time since I shot "in the field," so to speak, and I managed to screw up all the camera settings so that I shot everything too wide...
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Hideously Clever
. . . and then I was home again. On the avenue for lunch and sangria, in bed for a nap, up and to the gym, then some marketing, feeding the cat, dinner for one, quiet, left to my own thoughts and...
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