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May 12, 2004
Zulch Auto Works
There really was a Zulch Auto Works in San Bernardino, a brick cube to the west of the freeway, to...
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Incident in the Dining Room
So proud to be better than me is he of the fat lower lip and chocolate frosting curls.
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February 26, 2004
The Bible, Passion, and Jewish-Christian Relations
We must ask "Why this Gospel? Why not one of the other three, none of which include the divisive line?
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February 20, 2004
Heart Attacks: Are You at Risk?
Karyn and I want you to know that women are at risk for heart attacks.
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February 09, 2004
The Breast of the Virgin
Many years ago, when I was in Greece, I picked up an icon of the Virgin Mary in a jewelry store and sent it home to my mother.
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February 02, 2004
Mars and Venus
No amount of New Age synthesis of bad astronomy (astrology), bad corporate style mysticism (e.g. the Transcendental Meditation movement), and bad pop psychology is going to convince me that we're limited to being the paper mache idols that degree mill-made "Ph.d" Gray erects.
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December 25, 2003
Christmas Past
When I was young, Christmas was a day on which we spent some time outside on the back lawn.
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September 28, 2003
Sign of the Cross
I never managed to quite shake the Catholic out of myself. Not that it is such a bad thing.
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September 16, 2003
The Other Road
I loved literature: I got As in high school and scored a 5 on the AP literature examination. Writing was what I did well.
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June 20, 2003
Scott Joplin
I worked out a system of pressing the flesh of my upper arm as I lay on my dormitory bed listening to the Maple Leaf Rag and other syncopations of the American Chopin.
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June 16, 2003
The East Coast of Crete
We went because there was a Minoan palace, one of the grand stone halls they built when they dreaded pirates who were hung like bulls splashing in from the sea and raping their bare-breasted queens.
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June 07, 2003
Dialogue
>Cheri: Hey, Joel. That's a nice sweater you've got on. Where did you get it?
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May 18, 2003
Kalamata
I'd actually been through it twice on a bus filled with American college students.
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April 26, 2003
Sistine Chapel 1979
Who will buy this wonderful religion? I thought I heard them saying to each other.
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October 25, 2002
Roaches (Insects)
Barbara Fletcher wrote about facing her first live roach. The occasion caused me to rhapsodize upon one of my own favorite roach horror stories.
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