Monthly Archives: November 2009

Happiness is not only Communism

November 9, 2009 – 11:59 pm

It’s not difficult to make a woman happy. A man only needs to be the following: 1. a friend 2. a companion 3. a lover 4. a brother 5. a father 6. a master 7. a chef 8. an electrician 9. a carpenter 10. a plumber 11. a mechanic 12. a decorator 13. a stylist […]

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GOODBYE LENIN – Movie

November 9, 2009 – 9:01 pm

Communism is dead, but the 2003 comedy GOODBYE LENIN brings back the good old days for a young man’s mother, who has coming out of a coma after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She had been a loyal party member and the doctors fear that she couldn’t handle the new reality, so her son […]

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Party Hat by Slavoj Zizek

November 9, 2009 – 8:41 pm

To read this great opinion piece about the collapse of communism click on the following URL. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09zizek.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=global

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No More Oak Beach Inn

November 9, 2009 – 8:06 am

Oak Beach was a small marshland community at the end of the Jones Beach Causeway. Access to the tidewater island was strictly by boat. The houses were constructed during the 30s and 40s. Electricity was an option. Across the causeway was the Oak Beach Inn. A large clam shack serving the drunk drivers from everywhere […]

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Open Door Thai-Cambodia

November 9, 2009 – 7:48 am

Despite the recent frost in Thai-Cambodian relations thanks to the former PM Thaksin being appointed economic adviser to the Cambodian government, the borders remain open to trade and travelers between the two countries. Soldiers at the checkpoints have explained to tourists that everything was normal. Locals say that isn’t quite the case as the volume […]

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