I am not one of those sports fans that complains about how much players make. With the amount of money that the teams and these leagues make, it makes perfect sense to me that the players, particularly the big stars, share in the riches that their rare skills manage to create. I am not, however, nearly as tolerant of the diva behavior that is so common these days. In team sports, there has to be at last some semblance of a team attitude from its players, in my opinion.  I have mentioned before that Terrell Owens is my least favorite football player, and that is exactly why. He doesn’t cheat, doesn’t get arrested, and does not take drugs, to my knowledge.  He is, however, an atrocious teammate, by all accounts. He destroys teams. This column is not, however, about Owens. [Read more →]

Tags: sports by Alan Spoll
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10. One gross of surgical masks

9. His first nose

8. His subpoena collection

7. Tito

6. The Elephant Man’s bones

5. His ninth nose

4. Bubbles the Chimp’s bones

3. A mobile made out of dangling babies

2. A water bed that sleeps 20 (10 adults)

1. His current nose

Tags: art & entertainment, Bob Sullivan's top ten everything by Bob Sullivan
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On March 15, I celebrated yet another birthday. Since food is such a huge part of my life, where to have dinner on my birthday is usually a wrenching decision for me……but not this year. [Read more →]

Tags: recipes & food by Jessica Alfreds
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Before I go to sleep at night, sometimes I ask the universe a question about my destiny. The answer, as bizarre as it may seem, usually comes in the form of a song that wakes me up on my clock radio the next morning. While I haven’t done this in a while, last night I once again had the urge.  I asked the universe (God, the light, soul guides, my future self, whatever you wanna call it) what is going to happen on December 22, 2012 — the day after the Mayan calendar abruptly ends. The answer I received really surprised me. [Read more →]

Tags: religion & philosophy, television by Marc Oromaner
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I’m slowly getting sucked into Facebook and I’m beginning to suspect that it’s a cult. First, they want to know way too much about me. Like, what I listen to and what I read and which movies I like best. They want details about me I didn’t know I had (I’m apparently somehow just like Judy Garland and yet also a Ren Faire dork) — which makes me want to stay up all night telling them and ignoring my family and buying weird things from the ads down the sides. Creepy attention, sleep deprivation, isolation, handing over money — the only thing different from a cult is that Facebook has crappy singalongs. [Read more →]

Tags: advice, technology by Ruby Mac
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To nobody’s surprise Megan Joy was voted off American Idol last night. While I’m more than happy to see the shimmy plagued singer go, I did feel bad about the way it ended. [Read more →]

Tags: television by Jaclyn Roth
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How much is a trillion dollars? We’re hearing that number more and more. A trillion-dollar bailout. More trillions to come. Trillions upon trillions of debt. Here’s a visual explanation I found that makes it clear that a trillion is, like, really a lot of dollars. (Via Hit and Run).

Tags: money by Scott Stein
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I’ve been a student of crime since I was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia in the 1960s.

I devoured crime fiction and thrillers. I read, and reread, Ian Fleming, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ed McBain, and of course, Edgar Allen Poe. [Read more →]

Tags: books & writing, on thrillers and crime by Paul Davis
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 I’m sure a question on all of your minds in the past few weeks has been, “When am I going to be able to read some solid commentary about the downfall of the environment?” I hear you and I agree with that question. On Tuesday, a couple of democrats got together and wrote a bill about reducing emissions, et al. And you know, whatever, that’s great. I hope they recycle the paper they wrote it on. But, I have to ask, where does that leave us, the people who don’t know about bills or science but would still like to less-kill the earth? Well, I’ll tell you where it should leave us, in five easy environment anagram steps. 

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Tags: environment & nature, Kelly Conaboy saves the world by Kelly Conaboy
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Federal tax hike on cigarettes? Smokers feeling abused? Didn’t anybody see it coming?

In my novel The Alphabet Challenge (ENC Press, 2003), I foresaw it years ago. I also foresaw it getting much worse: [Read more →]

Tags: books & writing, Pitney patrol by Olga Gardner Galvin
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March 9, 2009
I dream I am in Las Vegas, but not on the strip. It’s time to go home and as I walk through a park I see an animal with the body of a kangaroo, but with a much more frightening head. At first, I play it cool and try to walk slowly but purposefully. The animal sees me and starts coming towards me. I run for the meeting place and just make it. Dave assures me the animal is fake, but I know it isn’t. [Read more →]

Tags: Fred's dreams by Fred Siegel
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American Idol had its contestants singing the top 100 songs downloaded on iTunes last night. Overall the show was pretty good. Here’s the good, the bad and the fugly, in no particular order: [Read more →]

Tags: television by Jaclyn Roth
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There are so many things that could be potentially cliche about Nami Mun’s Miles from Nowhere: the title, the cover, the characters, the plot — just about everything. The main character, Joon, runs away from home when she is twelve. Her father has left the family, which drives her mother to insanity. After leaving her mother, Joon goes down the inevitable path of drugs and prostitution as she copes on the streets of New York City. But there is something keeping this novel from falling into the trap: Nami Mun’s writing. [Read more →]

Tags: books & writing by Season Evans
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This is brilliant.

Tags: damned lies, recipes & food by Jaclyn Roth
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A “man date” (not to be confused with what the electorate gave President Obama) is a platonic social outing with another male that may lead to friendship. So why does Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd), a young, handsome realtor engaged to his attractive girlfriend Zooey (Rashida Jones), need to go on “man dates”? [Read more →]

Tags: Gail sees a movie, movies by Gail D. Rosen
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