May 2010
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Melissa and I drove to Atlanta, back when we were...
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And Just Like That You're Back In New York: A...
Scene: JFK airport. Mike steps outside and lights up a cigarette. He inhales. He’s approached by a charming man in his late twenties.
Charming Man: Can I bum a cigarette?
Mike: Sorry, last one.
Mike Shakes the empty cigarette pack and tosses it in the trash for emphasis. The Charming Man approaches an airport employee wearing dark coveralls and a Yankees cap. He asks for a...
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I am a terrible creature of habit. Even at my laziest, my slothful inactivity tends to fall into an established routine. So I sort of shocked myself by buying a ticket, this morning, to Florida, leaving tomorrow and returning Wednesday evening. (That Jet Blue was offering ten dollar seats definitely spurred my decision. Still.) It felt good to be reminded that I can, if I so choose, make an...
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“It’s dope, and bitches like to suck it.” Does anyone remember that quote attributed to Mark Wahlberg, sometime back when he was going by the less mature appellation Marky Mark and palling around with something called the Funky Bunch, when asked about his third nipple? I sure do. We used to, around the time that line circulated, insert it into conversations, use it as a...
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The Times Online has a piece on the legacy of novelist Stieg Larsson, he of the outrageously popular Millennium Trilogy which began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Several writers were asked to account for the phenomenal success of his books. “Rachel Johnson, the novelist, said: ‘The Larsson books are basically plot, violence, violent sex, interspersed with Salander and...
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