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The subway ride from Bethesda to Dupont Circle in Washington was dominated by the presence of one man. He was standing behind me, back toward the doors, and he had a disturbing half-smile on his face. His eyelids were droopy, as if he was drugged, and he seemed to be staring into a dimension that…

I’m a pretty exceptional person in all sorts of different ways. Very positive. For instance, right now I am very, very hot, as our apartment is constructed out of fire, and I am also broke, as I just spent all of my money on a poor baseball card investment. But do you see me complaining?…

A few weeks ago I wrote a review of the new A & E show Runaway Squad for Pajiba.com. I’m going to excerpt the very start of the review directly beneath. ***************************** Joe Mazzilli has the blunt appearance of guy who really likes to eat meat. Sausages, in particular. Looking at him, you’d think that…

We never actually penetrated into the city of Buffalo, but stayed on the periphery in a suburb called Amherst. We were only there one night, staying at the Clarion Hotel, a very modest place on an industrial road that catered to Canadians who had driven down to the US in order to fly inexpensively out…

Whenever we make the drive from Toronto to Buffalo, I immediately get a completely different feeling as soon as we cross the border into the States. There are billboards advertising insurance companies and lawyers, and elderly people often man the tollbooths. Abandoned Ferris wheels and cranes, rusted, loom over territories they once ruled. American flags,…

Waiting at the Rideau Center to get on the number five, is a woman with short, spiky hair. She spits on the sidewalk, tossing her head so that her rattail is cast into motion. She’s solidly built, this woman. Maybe she lifts weights. Her posture suggests that she’d be delighted if somebody challenged her to…

A teacher at a charter school in Washington, D.C. found this list on the floor of 3rd grade classroom. It’s a list of 90 different kinds of bitches. Types of Bitches 1) Dirty dumb ass bitches? 2) Aint got no ass bitches? 3) Dusty trick bitches? 4) Fishy bitches? 5) Don’t know how to fight…

  I just found out that Tyra Banks is writing a series of fantasy books. I tell you, that woman can pretty much do anything, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see her on the US archery team in the 2012 Olympics. She is fierce! I went to her website and eagerly…

On Mother’s Day Rachelle and I drove up to Newmarket and had a top-notch brunch with her family. After the meal, we all went to a nearby park, where years ago, Rachelle’s parents used to take their 4 daughters to feed the Canadian Geese. It was a sweet thing to do– a kind of passing…