There’s actually a competitive sport called wife carrying. Finland – like other geographic locations that are cold and dark half the year – comes up with some bizarre ways to pass the time. They even set up an obstacle course for participants. What’s the background? Back in the day: “Raids on surrounding villages, with the […]
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Ned, the big regional VP, came in yesterday to pick up his mail, and he said it looks like we’ll be ramping up next week – that is, we’ve either just signed or are very nearly signing a contract, and it’s time to pack up the office with employees again and get busy. Yellow departed
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On the way home from kickboxing tonight, I was reading Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (believe it or not, yes, I’m a Hemingway fan). And I stumbled across this lovely passage: “There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and
The world bores me today. As today is Bomb the Shit Out of Fallujah day, I find it appropriate that I drop off the radar early and get back to work on my blood & sand novel. I need to hit 54 pages today
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NEW YORK (AP) — A 25-year-old from Georgia who was distraught over President Bush’s re-election apparently killed himself at Ground Zero.
Amanda’s got some thoughts up on a silly Salon piece about the still-popular idea that women should only be dating men who are taller than they are. Television continues to push the monstrous sexual dimorphism thing for no good reason, except to make people feel bad about themselves if they’re not paired up “correctly” (or
There’s an interesting interview up with novelist Tom Wolfe – “I do think that if you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.”
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Had my first sparring class yesterday. Ended up being 3 hours worth of classes, as I showed up for pilates at 10:15, and the sparring class wasn’t until noon, so I had an hour of pilates, an hour of boxing (partnered mitts), and then an hour of sparring. Do you have any idea how badly
Read the original here. Read the “find and replace” version below: MIXED Sexualities AND MIXED Marriages by Herbert Ravenel Sass (From The Atlantic Monthly, circa 1956) WHAT may well be the most important physical fact in the story of the United States is one which is seldom emphasized in our history books. It is the
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Off to the library to renew my warfare and arab history books. Then I seriously need to come back and go jogging – haven’t done that in awhile. Boxing tomorrow. 100 pages by the 20th. In the meantime, here’s some more New Zealand goodness:
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