Okay, so I’m morbid. Big deal. In addition to Hurricane Sandy’s brutality to the east coast (very prosaic by Day after Tomorrow standards, and yes, I did watch the movie to put things into perspective), the last week’s headlines have included two shark attacks, a three year old boy killed by a pack of...
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Because the fourth is on Wednesday, the work week has been neatly bisected into two equal parts and Tuesday turned into a bonus Friday. What better way to celebrate this second Friday than by going out and chowing down on one of our favorite types of food? It’s a better question than it sounds...
Read more →Many of you have seen Hitchcock’s Spellbound — if you hain’t yet, you surely should. If you have, though, you’ll probably remember it as “not Hitchcock’s best,” and not without reason. Many of the ideas it dwells on have lost their initial freshness and faded to mere cliches of the profession of psychoanalysis. It’s...
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Okay, by way of preface: I had this dream last night a little before 2AM. It woke my up so thoroughly and strangely that I came downstairs, documented it, and then went back to sleep still under its influence. I just had the most vivid and pleasant dream of apocalyptic destruction by meteor strike....
Read more →From My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter : The charge was stalled by a wooden rail fence about 60 yards from the Southern line. The intense fire from Cobb’s Georgians splintered the fence, spattered mud in all directions, and decimated those men moving up behind it. ...
Read more →It has been a very pleasant weekend. For one thing, it’s the second weekend in recent memory I haven’t been scrambling to finish off one of our lingering home improvement projects or traveling — yay! Plus, I got to spend some time with my sister, the sun came out for an encore, and none...
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