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Turmpentine and Patches
By Regina SPektor

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks. She hadnt been a virgin, and he hadnt been a god. So she named the baby Elvis. To make up for the royalty he lacked, and from then on its turpentine and patches. From then on its cold Cambells from a can. They were just too jerks playing...
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Theres nothing but momentum keeping me in the lanes

Headaches are fine, but for a couple days now its like an industrial vice is cutting into me. Just thought Id share. Actually though Im OK, but I continue to be upset about the war. Im not practiced in the art of being upset. Some people are experts, truly masters of their rage, but I havent...
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I'm sorry for thinking that I knew what I was doing. I guess what I do best is look like... I am in control. -- Alix Olson

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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot.
-- Dalai Lama

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From...
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The press gives war a kind of mythic narrative that war, in fact, doesn't have - Chris Hedges.

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George Bush, the liberator. He loves the people, and he kills them because he loves them. "Being dead is better than being a victim of a tyrant like Saddam, he explains. To what extent is Bush making judgments based on wisdom, and to what extent is...
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Thoughts must proceed to paper... quickly... finally understand, bush is infalliable, cannot make an error, his administration is merely plagued by coincidence. Therefore it seems like he is full of shit, while he is actually following his heart and not making use of PR techniques or spin.

It's a coincidence that the US would, by attacking Iraq, acquire a working stronghold within the middle of...
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This song is on my mind, "The consequence of Sounds." Its by the girl over yonder, the tiny Russian New Yorker with the piano and the voice and the fingers and the ability to create a clever summation of various relevant things. Now onto the song which is already in progress. So the piano is playful yet thrusting, the words are rambling yet focused....The worlds...
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When I read people who write honestly, I know my eyes light up on occasion. There is a form of communication that is subtle, that is sort of like "I know and approve of the mind-set that impelled you to write that way" And then there is the dead. Always knowing theres a flaw.

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These are tea suggestions,

Passion Tazo

The tea tastes like...
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This entry is going to be a little strange, so consider yourself warned. I saw a web page that got me thinking about evolution. Evolution seems to be the winning argument and I openly admit to a belief that evolution is right. But we perhaps wrongly assume that there are only two options to choose from, either evolution is true or else creation is true,...
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The second free Matrix Anime is available for download at www.intothematrix.com. Its pretty good though only about three minutes long.

It rained heavily today. I shared my umbrella with some anonymous woman while waiting for the bus, and as a result am thoroughly soaked on one side.

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History he seems to suggest is important not so that we can avoid past mistakes, but as a predictor of what we corrupt souls are likely to do to one another.
- David Hoppe

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Sentiment without...
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We hear the word spirits through a series of narrowing declenations of meaning that are worse almost than not understanding. Shamans speak of spirit the way a quantum physicist might speak of 'charm' It is a technical gloss for a very complicated concept.
- Terence McKenna

I saw the most disturbing thing on tv the other night. A chef was cooking a fish, and he was cooking in such a way that the fish actually continued to live during the cooking process and then when he was finished, he served up the fish to a nice asian family that had decided to have a pleasant evening together in a comfortable and...
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