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its not the beard that makes the bear. it's the bear that makes the beard.

my old job was turning my hair white so i took one at my favorite company in new york. i start monday.

that means, i'd like to see friends / etc. soon. and also, any leads on apartments? i am not having much luck so far.

i've been following with interest the recent discovery that the 19-year-old author of how opal mehta got kissed, got wild, and got a life, 'borrowed' some passages from the works of some other chick lit author.

like most people, i tried to compare the offending passage with the original and asked, did she plagiarize, did she internalize the source ( Read more... )

joseph stiglitz said here that the iraq war will cost between $750 BILLION and $1.2 TRILLION, depending on whether we leave in 2006 or 2015.

granted that's a total, not annual, figure, but to put it in perspective, it represents between 6 and 10% of the 2005 U.S. GDP and between 30-51% of the 2005 federal budget (expenditures) ... wtf, man?

You scored as Outcast. You are someone who doesn't belong in his main social area (work, school, the street) Has only a few friends, but usually doesn't really hang out with them. Your Someone who is told by his betters that he has wisdom beyond his years, but yout peers may make fun of you for it. But your heart is mature, calm and kind. Your ( Read more... )

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please rate THESE items on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 sucks eggs and 10 rules:

1) pants that zip off into shorts
2) origami food
3) squeezable meatloaf
4) footballs that have built in airfans so you dont get hot on the field
5) tuxedo sweaters

please rate these two life ideas (for me) on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being 'it's perfect', 1 being 'this idea sucks eggs'.

MOVING TO L.A. AND TRYING TO WRITE FILMS.

MOVING TO L.A. AND TRYING TO WRITE FOR TV SITCOMS.

to do:
see every buster keaton film ever made
ditto charlie chaplin