Benigngirl

• Happy Birthday, Mr. Gnome de Pluehm

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  The beaver’s powerful jaws are capable of felling blue spruce in less than ten minutes and proved, needless to say, more than a match for the tender limbs of America’s favorite birthday boy. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:57am EST
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• I Think I Only Have A Pair

  It is a fine line between Pop Art and kitsch. When Pop first made its way into the art world in the late 1950’s many regarded the movement as kitsch, basically mundane without any real artistic content. What are we to think of an artist who reverses the order, taking [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:51am EST
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• Chris Blair Saturday evening, October 10, at Gallery Elusie

  So if you are out and about or can be prompted to get out and about, would it not be so lovely to go see Chris Blair's new work at Gallery Elusie? [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:25am EDT
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• A Tale of Two Locks

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  I am super-obsessive about keys (and most things) when I am housesitting (and even when I am not) and if I go out for even a minute, I bring my keys. If I go out on the deck for even a piece of a minute, I unlock the door AND [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:40am EDT
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• Plato’s ideal city-state & stubborn realities

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  Last week I re-read Tracy Kidder's Hometown, because I had not read it in years and it was lying about at one of my temporary house-sitting homes. This particular section struck me and I'd certainly not remembered it from my first reading and so I thought I'd share; Reprinted here with' [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 9:19am EDT
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• Kittens and tales and random updates

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  In the meantime are kittens and cats and gosh, it is such sweet sorrow parting from each place. It seems good housesitters are hard to find, so they say, and I hear many stories of snoopers and the like. And so I am in demand. Everyone should have a talent. [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 7:07pm EDT
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• Benigngirl does not comply

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  According to an article at Total Recall Info, Benigngirl has been ordered for removal by the authorities RECALL INFORMATION June 5—Benign Girl recalls more Toy TELEPHONE SETS—Greece Manufacturer: See Below Product: Kids Toys Start Date: 2009-06-05  End Date: 2009-07-05 Product: Toy telephones – Super telephone Brand: Benign girl Type/number of model: Code No. 143-333 Description: A toy telephone set, comprised [...]
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  Posted: June 30, 2009, 12:45pm EDT
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• Spotlight (and radiolight?) on Mira’s List; an interview with Mira Bartok

  Author/artist Mira Bartók is the creator of Mira’s List, is a free blog for artists, writers, composers and others in the arts. Mira’s List publishes up-to-date information, resources and deadlines for grants, fellowships and artists’ residencies around the world, as well as useful articles on grant-writing and other pertinent topics.[...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2009, 7:39am EDT
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• Pulp Science Fiction Spring Event

  Paper City Studios Announces Spring Open Studios and Installation Event! May 8, 9 and 10, 2009. Paper City Studios’ “Pulp Science Fiction” spring event offers open studios with resident artists working in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, multimedia, performance and fashion design. Guest artists featured in our 5,000 square foot special exhibition [...]
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  Posted: May 05, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
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• Wednesday, April 22, 8-9 AM on Mo Radio

  An evening of TRANS Art and Activism. April 30, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 PM at The Apollo Grill, Eastworks Building, 116 Pleasant St, Easthampton, MA. Co-Sponsored by The Transgender Rights Project of GLAD, The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and MassEquality. [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 1:36pm EDT
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• Advice Columnism for hacks

  Hell, make a garland and wear it around your neck like a giant neck corsage. Better yet, make the whole pile into a garland and then immortalize it in a colorful jello mold and sell it to MOMA for a million dollars, become instantly rich and famous and take a [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 9:23am EDT
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• If I were a puppet

  Better yet, if I were at a puppet show I would be the child on the right, over the word “mundo”. That’s how I most often feel inside. [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 11:27pm EDT
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• Empty Cage Syndrome: Stray Cat Sayonara

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  SAY IT WITH CAKE CAKEY MESSAGES BROUGHT TO YOU BY CakeWrecks Today was a week since Chauncey the Cat’s surgery so it was time to let him go. Somehow he seemed to know this as he was restless. I got to my studio at 10 AM today and pulled back the blankets [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 1:18am EDT
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• Reception April 18, 2009 - Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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  PIONEER WOMEN April 18 – May 30 Artists’ Reception: Saturday, April 18, 3 – 6 PM Amherst, MA, 16 March, 2009--More than 20 women who have settled upon the fertile ground of the Pioneer Valley (Connecticut River Valley) have created new artworks that will premiere in New York City at Tabla Rasa [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2009, 12:50am EDT
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• For $10 you can be in a Kinks Reunion Movie

  For $10 you can be in a Kinks Reunion Movie [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
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• Stray cat update and fucking inkblots

  Now that she's a male I have named him Chauncey, as was the popular choice in my naming-the-cat poll the other day. Captain Marvel Chauncey, the amazing (<--for some reason which I don't yet know, but am certain of) stray cat. Chauncey for short with Marvie as nickname-in-waiting. I mostly' [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
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• Stray cat update III: Help name the newly male cat

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  PART I, PART II, PART IIB POLL WITH MULTIPLE CHOICE AND WRITE-IN OPTIONS FOR NAMING THE CAT AT END OF POST I finally got an appointment to have the stray cat checked, vaccinated and fixed on Wednesday. I was relieved to have the ordeal nearly over and also to have the chance [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
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• Get The Kinks out (of scatter/splitdom)

  Geoff Edgers, The Kinks, Sting, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson, Paul Weller, Robyn Hitchcock. Do you believe in helping in my bizarre but hopefully entertaining quest to reunite the Kinks - and to capture it on film? Or do you simply want to get your name on the thank you section [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 10:04am EDT
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• My stray cat has a friend!

  UPDATE: Check out my new live cat cam! I set it in her cage when she was not looking… UPDATE II: She’s a boy! The stray cat saga continues. And now Cholla has a friend, who she is sponsoring, care of my friend Maureen. Parker seems to have a lot in common with [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
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• Cheap Websites now, for training purposes

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  I am training a friend (not the stray cat - a human) to design and program websites. She will be a natural as she can already fix and reformat computers and cars, and is a poet. Poets and musicians make great programmers. And people with crazy-amazing focus. So for training purposes [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:09am EDT
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• Trapped stray cat update

  THIS WAS NOT REALLY MY PLAN: CAT TRAPPING PART II (WHICH COMES AFTER PART I) My daily horoscope warned me yesterday - and last week - about too many goings with flows. But I didn’t listen. It seems easiest to just go along with whatever I am being told/asked/ordered/encouraged to do [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 9:34am EDT
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• The story of Cholla/Bastette, my studio-mate

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  UPDATE: GOT A PICTURE OF HER HAVING A BATH IN HER CRIB. So a few months ago this stray, possibly feral, cat appeared in our building. I was sitting outside the landlord’s office testing the routers because I had no internet connection and I had plugged my laptop directly into the [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2009, 8:09am EDT
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• What are you doing April 25th?

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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
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• The day The Economy failed to forward the Lotus Totus email.

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  UPDATE: In an effort to uncover the author of the Touts I have sent the following appeal: “Dear Geraldo Rivera, Can you please do an expose on the Lotus Totus, like you did with the ‘wrestling’ industry? That was awesome! Thanks, Mo” What really happened to The Economy? It just hit me [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 10:46pm EDT
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• Free skin care with/in your morning coffee

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  HOMEOPATHIC SKIN CARE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS, WITH RELATED BREAKFASTY AND SEEMINGLY OVER-CAFFEINATED FASHIONS [fashion source] COFFEE GROUNDS AS CLEANSER I started using my coffee grounds on my skin months ago after hearing of a friend of a friend who saved the grounds and used them as a shower scrub. Always looking for [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 11:44am EST
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• Click here for Obama sushi rolls

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  Click here Then you will have the magic permission to click here… [source] [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 7:10pm EST
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• A Random Roundup

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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 11:53am EST
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• Shit.

  A sobering read: http://michaelannland.blogspot.com/2009/02/black-youth-beaten-then-arrested1-lets.html [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 10:34am EST
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• Wicked Spanish

  While recently unpacking old boxes I found my student ID from the Colegio de Espana (1984!) as well as my boarding pass and itinerary. That was an hilarious summer, which I have started writing down, and one for which I have also found the photos and study materials, and for [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 8:47am EST
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• You can shave the baby

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  I received an email from a non-related, doppelganger-like acquaintance in California the other day about supporting (which I did) a benefit for cancer in which she will shave her head. So I thought I’d post the link here in case that might serve to help her cause. I’d say that’s [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2009, 2:02pm EST
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• Gay Penguins Become Surrogate Parents in China

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  I found this story today at The Daily Mail. It seems Zoo keepers have determined that these two penguins are gay. They were thrown out of their colony for stealing eggs. The crafty little guys would go up to parents and lay stones at their feet and then run off with [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 10:55am EST
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• Fabulous Art Finds, with Essence of Existentialist Apropos(ities)

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  I found these FAFs over at BestWeekEver and I am just speechless. So I borrowed other bits of speech that seemed to best explain the existence of these… these inexplicabilities. In awe, your pal Mo. THE TOP 50 CRAZIEST PAINTINGS OF ANIMALS.  See all 50 here…. [source] POSSIBLY RELATED POSTS, MOICALLY GENERATED…. Uninspirational [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 9:42pm EST
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• People Got a Lotta Nerve

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  Some of the dogs up for adoption were rescued from that nasty, nasty man, Michael Vick, who I vaguely recall that I once compared to that irresponsible mining guy and Paris Hilton. <--Clearly I don't get a lot of things. It's a way of life. Or maybe it's a life [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 9:11pm EST
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• Who do we see about Pink Flamingos and Homelessness?

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  When John Waters came to Northampton a few years back and did a stand up thing at The Academy of Music, he said that a man had once approached him saying, "My family saw "Hairspray" and we loved it. Then we rented "Pink Flamingos" and were totally disgusted. Who do [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 2:47pm EST
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• You may not have a car, at all…

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  Monday Morning Music Gift- FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY (click link below and ’save as’) William DeVaughn - MP3–> william-devaughn-be-thankful-for-what-you-got Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac Gangsta whitewalls TV antennas in the back You may not have a car at all But remember brothers and sisters You can still stand tall Just be thankful for what [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2009, 11:55am EST
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• So long, Fred Knittle. Gosh, you rocked.

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  UPDATE: For my radio show this week, 8-9 AM Wednesday, January 7, at WXOJ-LP FM, streaming at www.valleyfreeradio.org, I will be repeating an interview with Jean Florio, John Larereo, and Diane Porcella from Young at Heart Chorus, which first aired on March 7, 2007. They were hilarious guests and it [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2009, 10:03pm EST
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• For Evaluation Purposes Only

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  Anyway, for my cake (for a friend's birthday) I had to cook all the layers separately in a rectangular pan, and then caramelize the pear slices, and then build the whole thing and soak it with my homemade Pear Moscato (Liquors 44 was out of pear liqueur and I only [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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• Mountains above, mountains below

  A few weeks ago I was emailing with a Psychic - one I’d had readings from on two occasions - and he said something about something as if to say he felt out of sorts but could not put his finger on it. So I opened the I-Ching and randomly pointed at [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2009, 6:44pm EST
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• Learn to Duck: Mobile Igloos and Manolo Blahniks

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  --"Well, damnit, it is hard to climb up high enough in my Manolo Blahniks to reach the roof of my 2009 Colossus SUV and sweep all that icky snow off and it gets all over me and I might have to change my outfit but I can't because I have [...]
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  Posted: December 22, 2008, 10:17am EST
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• Living La Subterranean Las Vegas Vida

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  As much as the article does a fine job of describing the house and its former owner and creator, I want to know about living in the house. I want to know how it felt for the muralist and how Gerald and his wife felt when they lived here and [...]
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  Posted: December 21, 2008, 2:36pm EST
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• She’s the kind I like to flaunt, and take to dinner

  THE FOLLOWING POST HAS AN IMAGINARY SOUNDTRACK SO IF YOU 'LISTEN' CLOSELY, YOU'LL HEAR, "SHE'S A LADY", BY TOM JONES World's Tallest Snowman Made In Maine By David Sharp, Associated Press BETHEL, Maine (AP) — The world's tallest snowman is no man. (Thanks Joe Ringey, for the link) The "snowwoman" towering over this [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2008, 9:21am EST
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• The Stop The Pike Hike organizers are politely asked to cease their “Boston Toll Party”

  It takes 2 minutes to sign this petition. please sign it. So the mayor asked the guys to stop their one-day boycott of the pike boycott because of it’s potential negative impact on certain geo- and demographics. But he does support their protest against the toll doublings. I am confused as to [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2008, 9:32am EST
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• A Day without Gays

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  Squeezing from the bottom only works with toothpaste. Economically squeezing from the bottom might just elicit protests and I kinda wish there'd be more. [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2008, 11:52am EST
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• Uninspirational words in perhaps uninspirational times

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  One of the women on the boat was not "working together", hence our losing battle with the elements. Every time we'd ride a rapid and water would splash she'd shriek and use her oar to cover her face so the blue eyeshadow, mascara, foundation and lip gloss would not get [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 8:07pm EST
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• You’re invited to help save The Bing! Even if just by being there.

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  The Bing, an old single screen theater in Springfield, reminds me of dollar nights as a kid when I'd ride my bike there with friends and how, under the cover of relative darkness, we'd turn around and peek at the older kids making out in the back corner row. I [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 1:34pm EST
  by benigngirl

• Vinh Chau in the Springfield Xelta

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  Vinh Chau Vietnamese Restaurant 409 Dickinson St Springfield, MA 01108 (413) 731-8858 I recommend the make-your-own Spring Rolls, under the steamed vermicelli section of the menu. You get a bowl of hot water, a stack of rice papers, and a platter of stuff including fresh mint, vermicelli, lettuce, bean sprouts, and crushed peanuts. You [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 6:46am EST
  by benigngirl

• The big deal about Brie

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  "What Yuppies have discovered is nothing less than a new plane of consciousness, a state of Transcendental Acquisition, in which the perfection of their possessions enables them to rise above the messy turmoil of their emotional lives. They know that Beauty is Truth, and Truth is Beauty, which is why [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2008, 1:19pm EST
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• The Do Not Call Registry

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  So now cell phone numbers have been released to telemarketers. This means you can and likely will be called on your cell phone. But you can register for the Do Not Call Registry in under 30 seconds and it surely beats complaining about getting those calls. For more information, https://donotcall.gov/ It takes [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2008, 7:37am EST
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• My broken leg and Mr. Lif at Pearl Street

  So here is a message from Mr. Lif: What's up Northampton?! I'm just checking in to let y'all know that I'm amped for the show this Friday, Nov 21st at Pearl Street. "Why is Mr. Lif so excited about the show?" you may be asking yourself. Allow me to tell. For months [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2008, 7:18pm EST
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• Paul Miller, Painterly Thriller

  A decade ago I would meet Paul in a bookstore in Gloucester with any number of other interesting characters : poets, sculptors, painters, et cetera for our Friday afternoon salon : great fun all around, but I found one source of entertainment which never palled : that of concealing with [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2008, 8:51am EST
  by benigngirl