Category Archives: Space

Golden Showers in Space

July 1, 2011 – 6:57 pm

Somehow Shirley Bassey the singer of GOLDFINGER earned the reputation for loving golden showers. Supposedly drinking piss was good for her voice. NASA has lent this myth credence by installing a water-recycling system to cleanse the the astronauts’ urine for drinking another time. “We did blind taste tests of the water,” said NASA’s Bob Bagdigian, […]

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Earth Saved by a Whisker

November 12, 2009 – 8:44 am

My work schedule from Thanksgiving to Christmas is seven days a week. I’m fine with those hours. More work. More money. Money I will spent next week when I fly from New York to Bangkok to see my families. The 9000-mile trip takes approximately 26 hours. Faster than my great-grand aunt Bert’s journey by sea […]

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Rescue from Above

July 20, 2009 – 2:55 am

Business in Thailand is a mirror of America only more dire. No tourists. No jobs in hotels, restaurants, or bars. The villages are repopulated by returnees from Bangkok and the resort areas. Many Thais think that Thaksin can right the situation within hours of his return. They obviously have little grasp of the economic disaster […]

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STAR TREK 2009

May 11, 2009 – 9:33 pm

I used to go to the movies all the time. Movies were an event. I saw THE HARDER THEY COME at the Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge. TOWERING INFERNO on Times Square and APOCALYPSE NOW at the Ziegfield Theater. First day. First Screening. These moments were magic, however the movie-going experience has become tawdry with […]

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Hawaii Missile Threat

April 8, 2009 – 12:26 pm

North Korea launched a Taepodong-2 rocket in the general direction on Hawaii. No sirens sounded in Pearl Harbor. The missile failed to achieve orbit, although the hardline worker state crowed about their propaganda “victory” on state TV and the state organ newspaper declared the test as a “historic event that sounded the cannon’s roar of […]

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