Monthly Archives: October 2009

Bad Math

October 3, 2009 – 12:52 pm

Math is a difficult field of study. Most Americans fail to comprehend anything beyond multiplication and division. Algebra is a foreign language and calculus terra incognita. If it weren’t for calculators most people in the world couldn’t count numbers higher than their fingers and even taking off their shoes wouldn’t put them much further than […]

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In the Words of Albert Finney

October 2, 2009 – 6:40 pm

Few films are as bittersweet romantic as the comic road movie TWO FOR THE ROAD starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. The two play star-crossed lovers traveling throughout Europe. Their honeymoon brings them to a country hotel in France, where they observed older couples speechlessly dining together. “What kind of people don’t speak to each […]

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Sophie’s Phnom Penh RIP

October 1, 2009 – 10:53 pm

The most wicked bar in the world Sophie’s of Phnom Penh has been reported to be closed forever by a reader of mangozeen. My last visit to the second-floor short-time bar was in 2007. The doors were shut by order of the city governor to allow the working girls a long holiday. The long holiday […]

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Chicago versus Rio

October 1, 2009 – 10:18 pm

President Obama has flown to Copenhagen to promote his hometown Chicago as host for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The otehr fcront-runner is Rio de Janiero. The right-wing media has attacked the president for abandoning the health care debate as well as featuring several vicious killings in Chicago to embarass the nation’s leader. On particular murder […]

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WHITE BIRD by it’s a beautiful day

October 1, 2009 – 10:01 pm

1969. The year is vintage. Some much good. Some much bad. Today I was riding the subway to work. Newspapers strew across the platform. The commuters grim. Wife #2 in Thailand unhappy with my love. My funds low. No prospects of more money. Despair was inevitable until the lilting violin of It’s a Beautiful Day […]

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