Tag: life
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September 19, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
I saw the film Thank You for Smoking recently, and let the moral quandaries it depicted sit and ripen nicely. Finally they fermented to perfection during a lecture on universal morality . . .
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September 24, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
I found the proper batteries, after much travail, and have regained full use of my camera. Thus, I no longer need to touch every lamp post I walk past or avoid walking in front of or behind any grey . . .
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November 18, 2006 07:36 PM EST --
It's an awfully lonely job working as the Disambiguator of the Conundrums Primeval. So many mere mortals tell me that the reason they stay alive and accept their mortality in stride is . . .
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January 27, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
I was just released from the emergency room after a brief stay for having collapsed from exhaustion at the train station. A thorough medical examination ruled me perfectly healthy apart from . . .
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January 29, 2007 01:17 PM EST --
I'm sorry if I lured you into this article with an expectation of something a bit saucier and more stimulating, but sometimes titling things inappropriately is one of the tricks of the trade when you're . . .
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September 23, 2006 08:07 PM EDT --
Attenuating the feelings of guilt and worthlessness and general psychical malaise at having lost my wallet still seems too much to demand of the Fates, and as if to rub salt to the wound, I've . . .
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September 24, 2006 07:23 AM EDT --
Some people, when they get high, create masterful works of art. Some write, some paint, some write songs and enliven the hills with the sound of muuuuuuuu-siiiiiiiiic. I, on the other hand, . . .
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September 29, 2006 11:10 PM EDT --
Here are twenty-five things that I've thought about without any external provocation except for the recent profound influence of marijuana.
1. finding a piece of paper in your back . . .
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October 02, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
We only have two seasons in Scandinavia, but we have sixteen months; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, November, November, November, November, . . .
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November 05, 2006 07:53 PM EST --
Dear World,
I have to ask you something; why can you never make up your mind? You have pulled the wool over my eyes since the day I was born. You have dirty tricks up your round little . . .
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November 25, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
I come from the land of the ice and the snow
The midnight sun where the hot springs blow
I come from a squid who wrangled with a whale
And I live at the bottom of a rubbish pail . . .
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September 21, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --
I see there is now a group in which I can post top-ten lists. This is a blessing and a curse upon my obsessive-compulsive minimalism. Either way I shall take advantage of the opportunity to . . .
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September 22, 2006 11:41 AM EDT --
I lost my wallet and passport somewhere between home and the complete opposite end of the city last night. My wallet contained all of my credit cards, my driving license, my Norwegian and . . .
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December 30, 2006 04:58 PM EST --
The deaths of two figures prominent in international affairs are remarkable when they occur in a short span of time.
Tell me I am not the only one who wants to see Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein welded . . .
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December 11, 2006 05:11 PM EST --
As you deck your halls with boughs of holly and troll the ancient yuletide carol, let me buy a bit of your time, dear reader, and offer you my own improviso reflection on this holiday spirit, hanging so . . .
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January 12, 2007 12:58 PM EST --
As I sat and rotted for the Lord-knows-how-manyth hour in the antiseptic, squeaky silence of the Royal Library's Humanities Research Room, I faced a dawning realisation with the setting sun. . . .
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October 28, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
A wink of sleep before dawn's dusky valediction. Gritty cowboy coffee and hand-rolled tobacco (such dirty habits!) fuelling a premature lakeside pedestrian commute. Journey northwards into . . .
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October 30, 2006 08:34 PM EST --
There is a mural between a metro station and a shopping centre just a few blocks away from my apartment. I will withold a thousand-word description of this mural in favour of a picture of it that's . . .
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December 05, 2006 10:41 PM EST --
Give me your eyes, dear readers, I need sunshine. Five days have elapsed since my visage was last graced by rays of natural light. My complexion has faded from pallid to sallow, and I fear . . .
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January 22, 2007 11:44 PM EST --
"A horrid little thing made everything go all peculiar..."
O, untouched Miranda, when will I sweep you off your feet and carry you over the would-be threshold that is the border of Denmark and . . .
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