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Neufchâtel 2

A fella tried to recreate a French cheese called Neufchâtel here in the states and ended up making cream cheese instead.

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Laraha, Valencia, Curaçao, and Superman

The London events made me think of the nature versus nurture, oranges, and Superman. If Kal-El stayed on Krypton, would he have sold shoes?

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Ship of Thesus Paradox

If every cell in you is replaced every 10 years and you have completely different beliefs than you did 10 years ago, are you really the same person at all?

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Hills from which we look and caves in which we hide

Him: I remember your ex. She was a ______. Me: I don’t think so. No 30 year old woman in a happy relationship looks to cheat. I wasn’t very nice to her. Him: I knew you back then, you weren’t that bad. Me: We all have our three lives: public, private, and secret. Spent the […]

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the air of December, I swear I remember it that way

My insomnia has made it’s usual reappearance. No idea why. It’s irritating. Less irritating is that people have been making reappearances in my Venn Diagram lately as well. There was my friend from church that I ran into on the street. She’s moving to Boston and starting grad school next year. There’s also my buddy […]

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Static

Location: three hours ago, leaving office Mood: drained Music: got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone All the static electricity in my building somehow accumulates in my room. That’s cause about once an hour I’ll touch something in my room and a huge spark’ll jump from me to that thing. My […]

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Jill

Location: 21:34 yest, grocery shopping w/a pretty lady Mood: proud Music: I’m happy for you I think I’m gonna take that drive Breaking with tradition, the Sexologist/SX’s real name’s Jill McDevitt. She owns a sex novelty shop called Feminique Boutique in Philadelphia. ———- My religion says, quite plainly, that there is a separation of church […]

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Elsewho

Dreaming of my possible pasts © Roy A. Hammond/WLIW New York Rain: Can I borrow your phone? Me: (absentmindedly) Sure. Rain: Here you go. Me: Thanks. Hey – what’d you do? Rain: Nuthin! So paranoid… My mind’s elsewhere, and elsewho, again. At least it’s the weekend. I’m in a 300 year old building in Passau […]

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There’s no place to hide

Location: 21:00 yest, ordering another roti in Jackson Heights Mood: full Music: remember when you used to pick out my shirts? What do you think of those happy dreams where you wake up and it was just that – a happy dream? Is it better to have them so it’s real, if only for a […]