Monthly Archives: January 2013

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January 21, 2013 – 10:16 pm

In his 2008 inaugeral speech Barack Obama declared that the USA was a country of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-believers. “Non-believers.” I hadn’t ever heard anyone mention ‘non-believers’ without adding ‘hang em’ and for the first time in my life since renouncing the God of my ancestors I realized that I was part of the […]

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The Cardiac Danger of Illicit Sex / Asia

January 19, 2013 – 8:48 pm

Several years ago while surveying 5,529 heart attack deaths in Asia, Dr Wong Teck Wee discovered that 34 fatalities occurred during sex and 27 of those deaths occurred while the male was engaged in an act of illicit sex i.e. adultery. The Universiti Putra Malaysia cardiologist concluded from these findings that stress of illicit sex […]

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GRAY VINYL LP RELEASE PARTY

January 18, 2013 – 1:29 pm

In 1979 New York was an open city for artists and the greatest rising star of the downtown scene was Jean-Michel Basquiat. The iconic grafittist branched out from painting to form GRAY, a noise band with friends Shannon Dawson, Michael Holman, Nick Taylor, Wayne Clifford and Vincent Gallo. They played at Max’s, Tier 3, CBGB, […]

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Chance Encounters of a Presidential Kind

January 17, 2013 – 12:46 pm

Presidents run in high circles with world leaders, government officials, senators, financiers. Most Americans will never meet their President. The layers of security are supposedly impenetrable with a phalanx of Secret Service agents preventing any unauthorized encounters, but the screen around Barack Obama failed at a state dinner in 2009, when two party-crashers gained access […]

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Guns For Everyone

January 17, 2013 – 12:32 pm

Obsessed with twelve year-old Jodie Foster portrayal of the child prostitute John Hinkley saw TAXI DRIVER fifteen times in a row. He stalked the actress to Yale and wrote her many letters including this one from 1981. “Over the past seven months I’ve left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint […]

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