the recipe for success
I may not be Erasmus of Rotterdam or Pharrell. But I'll tell you what: after ten hours of work and a good fraction of that being tolerable bullshit, three glasses of red wine and New Order's Greatest...
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i am tired of your dodge ball circus act
Before your next postBefore your next likeBefore your next tweetBefore your next blog (or "blah-g" as my friend Rose says)Before your next instagram Before your next on-line bracketBefore your next...
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Dear Avid Readers,I would like you all to know that I have divorced my wife. It was a very difficult decision but the truth is that I've been in love with my friend Rose my whole life and now it's...
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"Has anyone ever told you that you look like Louis C.K.?"
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always believe
The Ultimate Warrior was never my favorite. I was a really angry ten year old when he beat Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 6. Partly this hatred was Freudian: I had older parents and so I found much more...
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hate crime on time
Timmy the Tim turns 34 today. It's his Walter Payton year! Much like the dark lord and the Lord, there are a lot of differences between Timmy the Tim and 34.1. Walter Payton's nickname is Sweetness....
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I just read a continuing medical education article about Ivy League students using ADHD meds (mostly central nervous system stimulants) either via prescription or illicitly obtained to help keep up...
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You've trudged back to your office after caring for patients in three separate locations over thirteen hours. You just want to finish your notes and collapse into bed. You don't even care what you...
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love is in the air
Sixteen days on the internal medicine wards is a long, long time. Twenty two days in a row of work without a break can be maddening. The only hopes of survival are chicken tender wraps, Dr. Pepper...
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cd tower
1996 - 2014You and I have been together a long time. I bought you with my KMart discount at my very first job. You were there when I had mono. You were there when I fell in love. You were there...
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weight set
Well old friend, you have to go too. Not because of my wife, but because I just don't work-out at home any more. Thanks for being an awesome 15th birthday present. Thanks for helping me stop being a...
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regarding today's U.S.A.- Portugal match
I can't remember the last time I felt this way. Oh wait, I absolutely can remember the last time I felt this way! And the time before that!And the time before that!Michael Bradley: I love your...
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just like a feeling i need, it's no joke
Seeing New Order on July 3rd, 2014 pretty damn awesome.Seeing New Order with the people who got those songs stuck in my three-year-old head all those years ago, pretty damn awesome. As music goes,...
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witness
I have all these photographs on my phone, my Ipad, my computer. Nothing tangible, but readily accessible. Easily at my fingertips but could be lost forever in a moment of catastrophe big or small. I...
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it was ten years ago today
Kid Shay and I hunted all around downtown Chicago for picture frames. It's a long story. Not just any picture frames, but the perfect picture frames. And we found them. Ten years later, Kid Shay is...
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Here in Middle America, things are quiet enough for me to spend time on subjects of very little importance. One example of this leisure is my obsession with the names being bestowed on children of the...
View Articledid you know...
that significant portions of ISIS used to be known as the "Sons of Iraq". When they were on the American payroll, that is. So when John McCain and Lindsey Graham say we should be listening to John...
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