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Wisdom Teeth Removal… All Five of Them

I have just returned from having my five wisdom teeth removed. As I sit here and type, the lower half of my head is completely numb. I cannot feel my lower lip at all, nor chin, nor can I swallow … Continue reading

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Acts of the Apostles – By John F. X. Sundman

A friend gave me this work of fiction on my birthday last year. He met the author while travelling and started a conversation with him. The book centers on technology and in their conversation, the name of my computer mentor, … Continue reading

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Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television & the First Amendment – Newton N. Minow and Craig L. Lamay

Typical of my wormholing (i.e. following one reference to a particular topic, then another this references, then yet another, deeper and deeper and deeper.) this book perfectly echoes my utter disgust of television. However, where my opinion and argument ends, … Continue reading

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World Trade Center – Part II

As I walked down the concreted canyons of the New York financial disctrict, stepping through soot-laided streets, past armed militia and police barracades, breathing dusty air and catching glimpses of the broken skeletons of what was once the World Trade … Continue reading

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World Trade Center – Part 1

Well, its been awhile since a rambling, stream of consciousness monologue has flowed out of my head, but I seem to have caught myself in a moment between moments, like I slipped on the One True Ring, and wish to … Continue reading

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A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

Not only was this one of those rare books that has you from the opening pages promising greatness at ever turn of the phrase, it delivered on its promise. I started it unintentionally in an inopportune time, for I was … Continue reading

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Father Joe – The Man Who Saved my Soul – By Tony Hendra

Remember the film This is Spinal Tap? (How can you not!) Remember the band’s manager in the film, the blonde British bloke? That is Tony Hendra. He is probably better known as the editor of National Lampoons, but neither here … Continue reading

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The Crusades – By Zoe Oldenbourg

If ever there was a book written which one could call “glorious”, this is most certainly it. Zoe Oldenbourg has composed a book, based on historical documents, poems and the various memoirs of many historians of the time about the … Continue reading

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The Bear Comes Home – By Rafi Zabor

The Bear Come Home stars Bear, the main character. He is a bear. A real life, walking talking brown bear. He lives in NYC with his master Jones, who won Bear in a card game when he was just a … Continue reading

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Bourbon Street – New Orleans, Louisiana

Remember college days? Remember the dorms and the off campus apartments and the courtyards and the free-flowing kegs of beer and the booze and the drugs and the utter, exhilarating fun of being amidst a sea of like-minded individuals ‘in … Continue reading

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South Street Seaport – New York, New York

The Perfect Storm was a bad movie. Bad acting, poor writing and in this day where technology allows us to archive every conceivable vision, horrible special effects. But as I try to remind myself often, even bad movies have their … Continue reading

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Psychiatry and the Cinema – By. Krin Gabbard and Glen O. Gabbard

What I knew before even opening this book, was that even though it was written in the late eighties, the authors chose to focus on the films of the fifties and sixties. In discussing the introduction, the exploration, then the … Continue reading

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Last Supper – Bar Harbor, Maine

My last evening on my trip, I find myself in Bar Harbor. Due to an extremely, extreme hike up and down Mt Katahdin, I find that my legs are quite and utterly useless. I cannot walk, not well anyway. Thus … Continue reading

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