Suddenly, the line makes sense.

Suddenly, the line makes sense.

I generally think that astrology/numerology is bullshit, but I'm willing to make an exception for this:

Your Birthdate: July 5
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At 5:00 pm I walked from Cummings to 57th Street Books on a mission to find the drug* I'd been craving for six months. At first I couldn't find it--not at the front table--nor on the Mystery shelves--I was about to ask an employee--when I turned around and realized I had passed the cardboard display thing.

With trembling hands I held the book, ( Read more... )

Watch this.

The sound you hear in the background? Maureen squealing like a little schoolgirl and wondering what car to rent to head down to Nashville in 2007.

Mario Spezi has been released from prison.

From Douglas Preston:

My dear friends,

This morning, unexpectedly, an independent three-judge panel annulled the imprisonment of the Italian journalist Mario Spezi and ordered his immediate release. He was set free unconditionally, not even under house arrest. The judges clearly did not think very highly of ( Read more... )

Because free speech is important. Even if it's in another country.

The Italian province of Perugia has arrested a journalist for muckraking.
From his co-writer Douglas Preston:

My dear colleagues,

Today, the police came and arrested Mario Spezi, my close friend and writing partner. They lured him outside his apartment in Florence with a false story ( Read more... )

I've mostly been using this LJ for leaving comments onto friends'/community journals, not for an LJ in itself; I had a weblog. However, I think I've grown to like the LJ format--and besides, it allows me to have a different persona than I've exhibited on the Serious Political Weblog (which I haven't updated since October, and which had at its peak ( Read more... )

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