Thursday, July 10, 2008
History of Booze
Tidbits from Sam Anderson's review of "Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol" by Iain Gately 1. Romans perfered wine, but barbarians loved their beer. (Mal's reaction; I somehow always knew my ancestors were barbarians. Contrary to my last post, I do love beer over wine.) 2. Aztec's legal drinking...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Me, Sideways...Too much wine and not enough computer knowledge
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Mini Me and Giselle
Now that I've gotten past the Verne Troyer - aka Mini Me - sex tape scandal, I can move on to other spurned, dissed or otherwise betrayed copulating couples. I'm not a huge fan of Ballet, but my 17 year old son, a rock/ice climber and snowboarder, met and took to a ballerina-in-training last summer...
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Who Spends $3,000 a month on Porn Websites?
The Peter Cook-Christie Brinkley divorce is in full swing and with it come those admissions we come to expect in high profile/ low intellect pairings (or from Governors of high-profile states)...affairs with teenagers, porn addictions. But, wait a minute. This guy, Cook, had a supermodel wife and a...
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Friday, July 4, 2008
Zohan Vs. Hancock
Would you choose an alcoholic homeless black superhero, who in a drunken stupor indiscriminately kills multiple cops (off camera) while belching and apprehending bad guys - or a one-man-army octogenarian-screwing Israeli commando who just wants to ditch the whole Mid-East conflict thing and make...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Exorcist, Revised
I was about to call in the production crew for a remake of Exorcist two nights ago. Stuff was spewing from my body (upper and lower) at such violent and alarming rates - and in such volume - I felt as if I'd been possessed. The last time I had such a bad intestinal bug, it was on my HONEYMOON 25...
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Ocean Ills
Just hours before I'm to take off for Long Beach Island on the New Jersey Shore to "hang" with a few girl buddies for a few days, I read an alarming, but none-too-surprising article in last week's New York Times Magazine about the trash and toxins being coughed up by the world's oceans. Put there,...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Seeing Paris like a Queen
I'm back now - and suffering from a mild case of jet lag. Worth it, though, for the spectacular experiences I had in Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris. I won't go into much detail here, because an exhaustive account would exhaust every reader. Lets just hit the highlights, shall we? I was pulled by a...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Lausanne and Paris bound today
At 7:30 tonight, Jeff and I will be winging our way to Switzerland for a week of ostentatious excess. Though I'm excited about getting away, I have an extreme fear of flying that makes "getting there" fraught with anxiety. Once I'm on the ground, however, I'm back to my funny, frisky self....
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Hurricane Season
Phil was splayed on the roof of his parents house, rifle in hand. Keen to every movement, my High-School cousin was inexplicably playing SWAT pro. It was the summer of 1979, and as I drove up the short driveway of his house in the Garden District of New Orleans, I nodded hello up to him through the...
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