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Myspace gems

Yep, it’s [http://myspace.com/fukcmyspace] still festering. Check out this diamond in the rough. Myspace is the new wild west, complete with Nigerian scams! Subject: Long-term relationship Body: Hello, My name is Markavellie and I live in the city of Lagos, situated in Nigeria. I’m 6.1ft

Elementary Particles...

It’s ironic that following one of the best books I’ve read in a while (Storm of Swords), I’d read one of the worst. The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq, tells the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno. The former is quiet physics nerd, emotionally dead. His

On Fantasy Part III: World of Warcraft

I was going to wait till I hit my second 60, but its a long and tedious path and I’ve a good bit of grinding to go. Being the last of a three part series (here are one and two), perhaps I can come up with some conclusions. The

From Winter to Spring

Put up two new galleries. Winter and Spring. The first I took on a weekend hike in the North Carolina mountains, along the Appalachian trail. Most everyone we met was a thru-hiker, a little over 100 miles into their trek. It was frigid, temperatures were in the 20s during the

The Oceans of Story

I took a break from Song of Fire and Ice with a lighthearted children’s book by Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Many may recall Rushdie as the writer with a price on his head for The Satanic Verses. Here the subject matter is a bit less

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