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Eye of the Heidegger

6.2 miles in 57:41.9 Despite brisk autumnal weather, an early dying iPod, and the sufferings of a 6 A.M. wake-up call, I finished said Turkey Trot in under an hour. This placed me somewhere between old age pensioners, nascently...

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Texas Allegedly

For the reader unaware, condensed visits to my native Houston with their albatrosses and communal inspections often annoy me with a considerable flagrance (and possibly make me insane). I invoke last year's Thanksgiving ramble as a primer for a dilettante...

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Landscape of Manhood

Me. Pre-Turkey Trot. 6:45 A.M. My mother (who fancies technology as adeptly as the U.S. Department of Defense) actually took this picture in landscape format. This, of course, is perfect because I am myself an entire landscape of manhood,...

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Home For Thanksgiving

From W.S. Merwin's The Moving Target and probably a top ten all-time favorite poem. Home For Thanksgiving I bring myself back from the streets that open like long Silent laughs, and the others Spilled into in the way of rivers...

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Proof and the Pudding

A not-so-brief follow-up to my endorsement posting...I do have to say that even after going out late last night, I managed to watch all two hours of the Democratic debate in the wee hours of the morning without falling...

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TFR Endorses Senator Clinton

NEW YORK - In a move designed to counter the amount of voters impacted by Pat Robertson's recent endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for President in the upcoming 2008 election, Adam Chandler, magnate of the new media and proprietor of trustfundreporting.com,...

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Turkey Trot.

I don't even know what a "Turkey Trot" is, I am leery of things that are one species/synonym away from "Goose Step", but I will be embarking on a 10K journey in Houston, Texas on Thanksgiving morning in the...

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Review of Sorts: Radiohead (In Rainbows)

You must be in a very strange place when you listen to a new Radiohead new album. I mean a very strange place in the physical sense, a locality which is not common to you, not a foreign emotional...

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