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Received tonight: From: “Imf Confirmation” To: Sent: 11/06/2009 9:50 PM Subject: Outstanding Payments located to the CITI BANK OF LONDON. Mr. Virgle Lee Samples who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last week. He has also submitted his account for us to transfer the […]
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From Newsweek (Oct 21, 2009): How the Media Treat Murder: Why isn’t the story of several missing women in North Carolina getting attention? It’s an old problem . . . missing or dead white women get breathless, coast-to-coast coverage; missing or dead black or Hispanic women get 12 seconds on local TV. If they’re prostitutes […]
I seem to have survived another year . . . two more and it’s Medicare City, baby! The photos are from our road trip to Las Vegas, October 30-November 2, 2009. Click on any image to enlarge.
Dateline Las Vegas, Nevada. The proximate excuse for this trip is a Las Vegas Hash House Harriers weekend event, but we’re really here to let the kids know we’re still kicking (so that they won’t forget us and neglect to care for us in our rapidly-approaching dotage). Also they wanted to see Schatzi, who once […]
Last month I decided to read some banned books. I gave myself a year to finish the project. I’m sandwiching these books in with my regular reading, rather than tackling them all at once. One month in, I’ve finished four controversial books for children: And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell Looks […]
“It was beauty killed the beast.” — Robert Armstrong, King Kong (1933) Shine a Light (2008) I think the idea was that Martin Scorsese would turn a concert film into cinematic magic, and I must say the photography and staging is brilliant, but really it’s just another concert film and not all that memorable as […]
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.” – Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (1915) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz I didn’t finish it, I’m slightly ashamed to say. It’s sort of a Dominican version of Catcher in the Rye. Four or five […]