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The Slap and Tickle Tango
It wouldn't be so bad if I was the only one totally pwned in this relationship, but did my cat have to be brought into it, too?
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Rosemary's Maybes
Has the shock value of Rosemary's Baby paled over time? Or do you just have to be Roman Catholic to be scared by its simplistic pseudo-religious themes?
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Cocoa Condom Coffee Klatsch
When Pastry Chef Chris gave Hoosierella the 18 extra chocolate-flavored condoms in May at our weekly Lido's Caffé coffee klatsch in Oak Park, no one expected them to come back.
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Shorny
Goatee down, goldilocks curls to go. Yours Truly takes a long-needed trip to the barber shop and comes back a bit too happy for his own good. It's all tongue-in-cheek fun. Or tongue-in-something. Watch the video and judge for yourself.
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Dense Hudson on Thicke Double Bill
Had Jennifer Hudson's show (and showmanship, for that matter) been as electric as Robin Thicke's, the sour notes in the second-half of the double-billed evening would have been easier to swallow. Surprisingly, neither were.
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Lost and Found
Lost: Something I had for four years. Can't fathom where it got to. Watch the video and see if you can help me figure it out.
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Living in Public
The loss of a new friend from public spotlight-itis makes me wonder whether it's worth it to continue living my life as an open blog. Right now, I don't have an answer to that question. I'm just taking the fall...
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Metta Message
Recently, I was reminded that I'm alive when an unexpected event stopped my mind long enough to realize the fact.
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Xanadu and the Meaning of Life
Buddhist dharma (and the teachings of every other religion I can think of) would suggest we all have an intrinsic nature of being beyond the mundane world we take for granted as reality. But as the price for coming to hang out on Earth for awhile, we forget our ineffable--or if you will, Divine--nat
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At Home in Bedford Falls
I will never be George Bailey. My tolerance for others and wisdom with money leave a lot to be desired. But we have one thing in common: we've both had the punishing desire to run away. Try as he might, George never did manage to follow his dreams out of old Bedford Falls. In the end, that turned ou
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CrackBook Ho
I've persisted in owning no fewer than 11 Macs in 12 years. When Macs work, they work--so well, in fact, that we tend to forget when they don't. Even when, as in my case, they don't work a lot of the time.
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Top 10 Worst Excuses For Blowing Off a Date (Feb 09)
I haven't just been suffering through a string of bad dates this year. Like any improperly imperfect gay man my age, lately I've also been getting more than my fair share of standups, slowdowns, and excuses for breaking them in the first place. Some of the excuses have been outlandish, others blatan