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The Nipple Revisited

The Nipple Revisited

Tomorrow, I will be posting an eChapbook, a long short story titled Security.  Breasts figure prominently in my story, or - not to make too fine a po

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Attachment And Truth

Attachment And Truth

Here is a story which Thich Nhat Hanh recounts in his book, The Art of Power: The Buddha told the story of a merchant, a widower, who went away on a

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Dissing the Oscars – Wrap Up

Dissing the Oscars - Wrap Up

I feel so dirty, like I've been watching porn against my will.  Now it's time to step into the shower and wash away that disgusting feeling that come

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Dissing the Oscars – Up

Dissing the Oscars - Up

At last I look at the 10th and final film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar by the esteemed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:  Up, an ani

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This Week In Canada Eh

This Week In Canada Eh

Here's a wrap-up of all the news from the Great White North that's fit to post for the week ending Friday March 5th, 2010. The Winter Olympic Games

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Dissing the Oscars – An Education

Dissing the Oscars - An Education

Lone Scherfig's An Education is the 9th of the Best Picture nominees I consider as I gear up for the Academy Awards this Sunday March 7th.  Like a

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Freedom to Screw Up

I think one of the greatest freedoms we can accord one another is the freedom to be mistaken.

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Dissing the Oscars – Inglorious Basterds & A Serious Man

Dissing the Oscars - Inglorious Basterds & A Serious Man

Three more days until the Oscars and four more Best Pictures nominees to get through in my "Dissing the Oscars" series.  If I'm going to look at them

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Dissing the Oscars – The Hurt Locker

Dissing the Oscars - The Hurt Locker

The worst review I could find of Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker comes from Variety.  Nevertheless, it is better than the best review of The Blind

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Dissing the Oscars – The Blind Side

Dissing the Oscars - The Blind Side

The Blind Side is the fifth Best Picture nominee I consider in my quest for the worst movie review of an Oscar contender.  I have to confess that I m

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Poem – My Mother’s Bones

Poem - My Mother's Bones

They've widened highway 69 up through Parry Sound. Now, perched on outcrops and staring from their rocky ledges, are the Inukshuks, granite rubbl

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This Week In Canada

This Week In Canada

Here's a roundup of important news in Canada for the week ending Friday February 26th, 2010: Olympic Women's Figure Skating Topping the list i

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