Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut:
Vonnegut is simply a literary genius. The story is strange, fun, and simply interesting. He makes you invest in and care about his characters no matter how odd they may be. He
also tells the story as an old man would his grand children. There are detours and side stories…
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posted by Tra at 12:56 am
A correspondence between friends.
The other day I got this forward from Cory and this is what happened.
Subject: My Resimay...
To: Nel; Tra
From: Cory
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:08:48 -0400
My Resimay
To hoom it mae cunsern,
I waunt to apply for the job what I saw in the paper.
I kin Type realee qwik wit one finggar and do sum…
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posted by Tra at 12:50 am
I was listening to the radio today, yes some people still use that outdated technology, and they were talking about if money does buy you happiness. There was a survey done in the States by some university that wanted to find the answer to that question and the results pointed to yes. In Households that…
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posted by Tra at 11:31 pm
… Screaming. Why is there always screaming?
I am keenly aware of how early I have been up today and all the days leading up to it. The chaos is doing all kinds of mind warping things to me. I can hear one of our assistants, Elan, yelling to the frigid molecules in the air, but…
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posted by Nel at 11:27 pm
What can I say? When we started out with the idea of a blog it was great, like we had so much to say although when it comes right down to writing it. I can’t. I try to think of things that have some importance or semblance of sanity but am I trying to hard?…
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posted by Cory at 11:49 pm
Mad as a Hatter
It refers to the effects of mercury poisoning to hat makers in the 1800s. A mercury solution was commonly used to turn fur into felt so they were constantly inhaling the fumes. Some of the symptoms included the shakes, loss of coordination, loss of memory, and anxiety which made people seem crazy…
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posted by Tra at 10:31 pm
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson:
Soulful, Wistful and emotionally charged. This book is an alternate coming of age story propelled by loss and redeemed by love with every other range of human emotion in between. Superbly written, it is perhaps one of the very few books that actually explores the idea of growing up as a…
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posted by Nel at 10:27 pm
Max Payne
I don’t know what made me think this was going to be a good movie. Video game movies have a horrible track record of being complete crap. There is a long list of these movies including Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Doom. This movie didn’t fail to disappoint.
For those of you who have never…
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posted by Tra at 1:20 am
Renowned designer Emanuel Ungaro and Breakout Indian Glam Designer Manish Arora have designed individual colour palettes for Mac. There are some beautiful colours. There’s an eye shadow palette from Manish boasts the fiercest, brighter than bright colours that can instantly make your peepers the envy of all the other b*tches around your block. And Ungaro’s…
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posted by Nel at 12:37 am
When I first saw this printed on a t-shirt I was with a couple of my friends and they burst into laughter. I sat there and giggled a bit but that was just a front to hide my confusion. For a long time I didn’t get it. What can I say?
I am a bad speller.
I…
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posted by Tra at 11:56 pm