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Aronson wanted a five-to-six-minute clip of a normal-looking couple having sex with condoms, and enjoying it. But few pornographic movies fit the bill. They invariably veered into exotic scenarios: the guy wearing a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform, the midget and the obese woman. “I spent the better part of a week watching the movies,” …
While browsing around the site, I found that the Milk and Cheese vinyl toy set has been knocked down $10 to $59.95. Something to think about when that stimulus package kicks in and we’re all going crazy saving the economy. Think about it, baby. Alcohol, coffee and groceries disappear. Poof, they’re gone. Ethereal nonsense, you’ve …
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If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.” – Henri Ducard How to Create Lasting Change This Year
Good taste is really just a kind of aesthetic vegetarianism. -Robertson Davies The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
I think the way to “solve” the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you’ll leave the right things undone. Good and Bad Procrastination
Growing up Native in Alaska is a collection of oral histories compiled for The CIRI Foundation. In my story in the book, I describe a time in the 1990s when a group of Doyon shareholders wanted to liquidate half the Native corporation’s assets. “What struck me was [this position] comes from a culture where leaders …
Moyra Davey on Random Reading “So how are we to draw up those reading lists finally? I have been fascinated to note how many writers invoke chance and randomness as guiding principles in choosing their books. I am talking about Lynne Sharon Schwartz, who, citing ‘the John Cage-ish principle that if randomness determines the universe …