The Exorcist?

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A demon who must be exposed, or exposing the demon? “He’s a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But, he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen. Remember that, do not …

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Hard Candy Christmas

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Time rushes in, no matter what watch I wear. It smothers me with the work that will propel me to the end of my graduate school career, and it pleasures me by ushering in the holidays, and with them reasonable cause for playing endless covers of Joni Mitchell’s River. A …

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You Had Me At “Publish” and “Ping”

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Monday, November 22, 2004: I was listening to Viladi’s Four Seasons, and Bowling for Soup’s 1985. It was 9 months since we invaded Iraq, but far from a time when the average citizen would become aware of the national fiscal evisceration heading our way. Having discovered that the pedophile preserving …

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Harbor People

I ran into her when she spoke at various colloquia my third year as an undergraduate. We didn’t become genuinely acquainted until some time later at a Blues bar in St. Mark’s Place — during the later part of my final undergraduate year. She would eventually, in a city 3 …

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Midweek Smile with Barry

Before I die I want to dance to Barry White’s My First, My Last, My Everything in a Unisex Bathroom.

Going Gentle On Their Minds

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Texas, a Sisyphean task. Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? Three in ten Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don’t know Between you and me, I’m pretty sure the Texans surveyed were confusing history with film. I have no excuse …

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