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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Oscars 2008 Recap

Best Way to Make Best Actress “Not There”
Every year the Academy changes up the Oscars to try and make better, faster, stronger. It’s the Six Million Dollar Man of television really.
Usually one of those tactics is to just drown out the nobodies when they are giving their speeches so that they are forced to stop [...]

Women’s Genitalia: Cosmo calls it like they see it?

My good friend Suzanne was kind enough to tell me about the March 2008 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Besides featuring the talented Rihanna on the cover, it also titallates readers and lures them over to the magazine stand with its usual circus of SEX, SEX, and CHEATING.
But that wasn’t what caught my eye and really [...]

Why Do Paper Cuts Hurt So Much?

Waking up to this blanket of snow is as unfamiliar as if I had stepped into a movie scene for White Christmas. This is the winter I imagined. This is what I expected from Connecticut. But we’ve had lovely, undefined days, mostly. The kind that almost ache in their beauty: winter sunshine stretching out as [...]

Magazines I Never Ordered

Or, My So-Called “Partnership Orders”

I got this “bill” in my mailbox the other day.
It came on the heels of the 2008 February issue of Wired Magazine, with a cover shot of Sarah Silverman looking as confused for being in my house as I was for having her there.
Now, I don’t have anything against Sarah [...]

High Crimes: The Fate of Mount Everest in an Age of Greed

I met a photographer for the Hartford Courant, Michael Kodas, at Green Drinks the other night and it turns out he is also the author of this book. High Crimes.
I’ve always been skeptical about mountain climbers, especially those who climb places that are truly death-defying. I think this might have something to do with the [...]

Nothing New

Brought to you by The Letter “R”… as in Reuse.

It’s really hard to not shop.
This is mostly because, I am discovering, our American life is not truly designed for things like:

Freedom
Justice
Democracy
Share and share alike

but is actually designed for things like:

Credit card debt
Paris Hilton
Bud Light Ads

I think this is primarily why we all sort of [...]

A Cold Day

It doesn’t make sense, when the day starts with sunshine and ends, wet and unsettled, grey and cold.
It doesn’t make sense, when a friend comes. Rings the bell. Shines the light. Then disappears, shuts the door behind them, to seal in the silence.
It doesn’t make sense, at all, the emptiness of a womb, while the [...]

Eli Manning, Give Back Your Hybrid Escalade!

Who doesn’t love a hero? And after a gorgeous performance in Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning deserves to be one.
So, with 2008 marked already as the Year of Green, I can only humbly ask that our first hero of the year, Giants quarterback Eli Manning, give BACK to Cadillac the keys to their hybrid Escalade [...]

Creative Technology Has a Problem

Sim Wong Hoo, I’m Coming for YOU!

This guy pictured here is the CEO of Creative Technology. My plan is to get an interview with him and pin him down. Why?
I have an mp3 player.
It isn’t an iPod, it’s one of HIS mp3 players, a Creative Nomad Muvo2. I bought it about five years ago. It’s really [...]