I want to think for a few minutes about a truism of sorts that I recently noticed, something that maybe you consider old news but that’s nevertheless interesting to me right now.
I was rereading some old entries from my personal blog that used to be at this URL. Public utterances — at least in intent, [...]
Laura Veirs @ Mercury Lounge, 5/15/06
Johanna Kunin @ Parkside Lounge, 5/17/06
Last Monday at Mercury, crouching behind her merchandise counter, Laura Veirs scribbled something in her diary before standing up to sell me some CDs. My rule of thumb: if I hit a show for someone on my iPod whose record I don’t actually own, I’ll [...]
The 1970s was a golden decade for TV in Britain. We were dazzled by the glamour of imports such as Starsky and Hutch and The Streets of San Francisco. (And I mean dazzled.) We also reveled in homegrown offerings from game shows to soap operas to police and hospital dramas.
The Generation Game was a big [...]
Dear Cedric,
I feel so revitalized after a colonic. Why is that?
Tom C.
Dear Tom,
Sucker! That feeling of revitalization is called a placebo effect. How much money are you paying for that colonic? $100? Instead, why don’t you take that money, buy some Metamucil, and use the change to wipe your sorry [...]
About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine went on vacation with her husband and family. They stayed at a beachfront hotel, where they spent several pleasant afternoons strolling along the shore, ocean kayaking and enjoying beachfront dining.
One morning, my friend asked her husband to walk down to a seaside cafe for [...]