Are we better off now than 20 years ago.

"I heard an interesting thing on the radio, it was arguing about whether life is better now than it was 20 years ago. It was saying that their was a lot of unemployment and time were hard but people when asked say that it's worse now because despite all having fairly secure...

Designer Pink Dog Angel Dress Top Pet Clothes/Clothing

"My Mother has just emailed me showing me she was the highest bidder on Designer Pink Dog Angel Dress Top Pet Clothes/Clothing It's like some kind of wierd pink ballarina skirt, for DOGS!!! For crying out loud she is even paying £5.99 for a monstrosity. I don't really...

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Singer Wanted

"Last night was the first game of the World Series between the Cardinals and the Tigers, and I couldn’t help but wonder where they pick the talent for the National Anthem. As I sit outside on the patio sipping my Seabreeze, I am listening to someone struggle with the song,...

Facing a Faceless Enemy

"The White House, particularly George Bush, has a difficult time grasping language and its shades of meaning. However, the Republican Party as a whole appears deft at crafting phrases and inventing rhetoric that linger in the mind and incite emotions. The most recent example...

What's The Story Morning Gory?

"Astonishingly, our president continues to unfurl satanic mis-representations of the truth day in and day out. I'm not even religious, but maybe you will recognize my stern approach, my anger in presenting just one example why this war is not only based on money and oil,...

Piercings Begone!

"Yesterday I looked up at my friend Sarah, and told her that she had "a bat in the cave." I thought I was doing her a solid, being a good pal, alerting her to the booger waving at me from within her nostril. When she finally understood what I was talking about, she laughed it...

"Night Moves" -- Lisa Papi-NO!

"I looked at the CD cover artwork for Lisa Papineau's Night Moves with hope--it was comfortable, simple and inviting. It made me want to smoke some pot, take my shoes off and make snow-less snow angels in the green grass of my Los Angeles front yard. I put the disc in my CD...

Interpret This

"Habeas Corpus 1670 – 2006 Rest In Pieces. Well, it’s now official, we are screwed. I’m not sure if you noticed with all the hype over senator sex and Korean brand nukes last week, but in the fine print of most news reports just below the articles about Harry Potter’s...

So You Want to Be a Well Read Writer

"So you want to be a well read writer? Just by reading the question, you’ll have to make a choice. Perhaps you already have—you’ll notice that the question can be read two ways. Do you want to be the page one writer that Sarah Jessica Parker will want to play on screen,...

Desert Rain

"In Wallace Dorian’s intriguing first novella, “Desert Rain,” he takes his heroine Cynthia Ryan into a heart of darkness. But unlike Joseph Conrad’s famous classic, Cynthia’s journey takes her into America’s southwest while making a film of the Kachina cult and...

Liberal and Christian... Whaaaa?

"I am liberal. I didn't duck when I said it, either. I didn't mumble it with my hand over my lips. I didn't use an acceptable euphemism like "Progressive Democrat" that won't impede my election chances. I said it loud and proud. OK, shift gears now. I am a Christian. Now...

Don't Forget the Derby!

"In the days of the Golden Hollywood era, the Brown Derby was the place to be. The Derby started as a cute little restaurant in Hollywood shaped like a derby hat. It soon spread to 3 other locations throughout Hollywood, all of which were bombarded with old time movie stars,...

The Lack of Movement - movement

"He was slow. He was stocky. He was hilarious. He was the fat kid. Growing up, you knew him too. He was in every community, in every genre of the schoolyard hierarchy from tunnel-slide roughian to the double-dog-dare-girl kisser. The fat kid traversed time appearing in your...