Category : Obtuse Observations

15th September 2006 : Talk Smack, or Step Back?

Being a smartass is great fun, but you've got to know the limits. There's a time and place for snappy sass, and then there are situations where your smart mouth may get you beaten, expelled, arrested, or worse. Mostly, the level of lip you can get away w… more »
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13th September 2006 : E.F. Hutton, Where Art Thou?

These are uncertain times in which we live. I remember an age not long ago when things were simpler, when a body could make sense of the world around. There was a reassuring clarity back then, a blanket of predictable routine and rhetoric shielding us fr… more »
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18th August 2006 : The Hyperactive Hypochondriac

We all have that one friend -- the 'worrier'. That's the person -- usually female, in my experience, though I'm not nearly brave enough to hypothesize why it might be so -- who's always looking out for trouble. And for the worrier, the bogeyman comes in… more »
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16th August 2006 : I Never Knew I Knew So Much!

A few years ago, I bought my mother a book. It was called Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten. I never read it myself, but I'm told it's a folksy, common-sense look at the important lessons we're taught at an early age, and how we… more »
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10) You still imagine yourself participating when you watch steamy love scenes at the movies -- only now you consider how you'd break a damned hip, if you were to carry on like that. 9) Your idea of a date involves an episode of 'Diagnosis: Murder' and… more »
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