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You'll never guess…
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Warning: scary stuff "For the love of God, Montresor…" [[[shiver]]]
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Thanks to Jeff Woodward for sending me this poignant story about a bottle of Jim Beam. I should arrange to leave something of this sort for my grandchildren to find. I wrote something similar back in 2005.
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…at least a little, even as I think "Wow, that was really stupid." And I've never been cheated that way.
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Is it possible that the name of the goalkeeper of the US women's soccer team is really Hope Solo? It's not a made-up name describing her job? I don't think many novelists would be so audacious with a character's name. Well, in any case, I wish them well. Unfortunately I probably won't have time to…
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‘Depressed’ ferret flees Siberian circus (Link removed due to reported malware found at the destination, a story in the Moscow Times.)
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Whenever Windows starts badgering me about this, which as you might guess it's doing right now, I remember that old warning from somewhere back in the '60s or '70s: "When I want your advice I'll beat it out of you."
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Sounds interesting. Not that I need another Internet distraction.
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From Smithsonian magazine: In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London. I posted that only because it made me laugh, but it got me to thinking: I grew up near Huntsville, Alabama,…
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A somewhat idle question, but: yesterday my wife and I were discussing the phenomenon of men who marry again fairly soon after their wives die, and that this seems to happen more often than widows remarrying. The context was of people well up in years, no longer raising families, which is a rather different circumstance.…
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