Tag: living
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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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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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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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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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November 13, 2006 06:45 PM EST --
I think I have cancer, but at least I'm not a dwarf.
My bedroom window doesn't close and it's cold outside, but at least I'm not fat.
I've been an undergrad since I was nineteen and . . .
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January 02, 2007 01:43 PM EST --
I offered my two cents in a comment thread about monetary incentive for creative endeavours, which easily could be construed (and not even necessarily misconstrued) as a Marxist/utopian insinuation. . . .
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January 11, 2007 04:04 PM EST --
I originally published this article at epinions.com, on 04. september, 2006. When I recycle my writing, I like to think I'm being resourceful, not merely lacking in creativity. I will leave . . .
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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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December 14, 2006 04:19 PM EST --
I don't know what to think about anything tonight.
One of my best friends visited today from Canada. She stopped in Copenhagen, bound for Singapore by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:45 AM EST --
In the epic poem Beowulf, King Hrothgar of the Geats (or maybe it was the Angles? Saxons? Jutes? Sveas? I don't know) has forboding premonitions in his dreams about the threat . . .
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November 02, 2006 06:39 AM EST --
The following are a few things I've scribbled in margins and on the backs of flyers. Some are as old as several years, others as new as last night.
Beverly Devilry
Beverly Devilry was . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:53 AM EST --
Last night I lost my house key.
No- and I have to insert this merely to preclude the question of whether or not I was drunk -I was not. I keep my key in a closed compartment in my shoulder . . .
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November 27, 2006 08:20 PM EST --
In his poem The Hollow Men, TS Eliot wrote that the world would end "not with a bang, but a whimper". Over the course of the past two days I have born witness to a few of the silliest things . . .
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December 08, 2006 10:58 PM EST --
*Humble apologies to Douglas Adams. You all know why.
The world we know and love, the world into which we are born, in which we spread our roots so tenuously and fleetingly, and from which we will . . .
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January 05, 2007 04:55 PM EST --
In my rapacious appetite for documentaries of any sort, I have had to endure far more gruesome dramatisations of catastrophes than I care to think about. Please don't get me wrong, I'm all . . .
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December 24, 2006 04:16 PM EST --
Sympathetic readers, I sincerely hope you never achieve true empathy with my immortal bewailing about how much living with OCD really bloody sucks. Life as such is a bane I would not levy upon Hitler, . . .
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