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By C.D. ALLEN
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With apologies to e-i-c Lisa, this is not the column I promised her for today. I wrote myself into a corner and couldn’t figure out how to salvage it in enough time to get this on the site. If I can make it make sense, I will recycle that one for […]
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I haven’t been at work for the last week.
My roommate (the snake in the car guy who it from my home town) told a few weeks ago that he was driving back for a long week end. That long weekend was last week. His dad’s birthday was in there somewhere. […]
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About three months ago I acquired a new obsession – star notes. Being a collector by nature (as I think most people are to some degree), I can’t help myself. I now compulsively check all the money I handle. I’ve showed them to the people at the stores I frequent […]
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Still with me?
I’m not exactly sure how old I was but I remember being taught the difference between concrete and abstract ideas at a very early age. I think it was English class and was the first time I had ever even considered that something could be both real and unreal. […]
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Two weeks ago, before Independence Day, I wrote that I wanted to write more about time but had run out of room. For all you lucky people that have been waiting anxiously for me to continue – Here we go…
All of our ideas about our selves, our environment and also about our […]
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A very wise and very American man once said, “Freedom is free of the need to be free.”
This year, today, is the 231st anniversary of America’s independence from Great Britain. This is the day that over two centuries ago the founders of this country signed the Declaration of Independence. They decided they would be […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about time. How sometimes it seems like I never have enough and other times it seems like I can’t get rid of it. I think the key word here is seems.
My three main hobbies: reading, video games, movies. I’ve already confessed my love […]
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It’s late in the afternoon as I start to write this, and I can hear thunder outside. My roommate has spread mothballs all around the house, and the smell is making me sick. He says he did it to keep snakes away from the house. Let me tell you why.
About […]
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Yeah, so… I coped out on my birthday. I said I didn’t have anything to say but that’s not entirely accurate. I just didn’t want to talk about getting older. Also, though I didn’t know it at the time, I didn’t want to think about not being as young […]
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Since I’ve already written about driving a taxi for the summer, I suppose it’s safe to write something to include it in further articles.
If you ever thought driving a taxi was only about knowing where things are and getting there fast, then let me tell you that’s just where it starts. […]
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Today is my birthday. Twenty-seven years ago I was born at around 2:30 in the afternoon.
So far I’m glad it happened.
Given that my column is running on the day it is this year I feel obligated to write about it. The problem is that I don’t have any sort of revelation to add. […]
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In this new town that I’ve moved to, I’ve had a little bit of trouble finding a job. I put in a lot of applications at a lot of places but haven’t heard back from anyone so far. For two weeks, I spent my days driving and walking around, signing […]
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A few weeks ago, before I fell asleep and forgot to write something for an entire week, I told a story about getting kicked out of a thrift store. I’m kind of surprised that no one called me out about what I was doing - shopping.
Hi. My name is David, and […]
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By far the most interesting thing I’ve done since visiting and potentially moving to Myrtle Beach is a tour I took of the Meher Spiritual Center. I found myself there because of a misunderstanding and just in time to get shown around. It’s beautiful land, and I’m glad I went.
The […]
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I was kicked out of a thrift store the other day.
I’m driving in a town I’m visiting and happen upon a dirty little strip mall with a tiny grocery store, an everything’s a dollar store and, at the end, a thrift store that’s literally overthrowing junk unto the sidewalk. I’m on my […]
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My little rant last week about Grindhouse got me thinking about zombies. While the movie features actual (in the movie sense) undead, or at least their diseased counterparts, I want to discuss something a little more mundane.
Whether or not a person actually has free will or any real control over themselves […]
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I saw Grindhouse over the weekend. This isn’t what I normally write about but after reading what the “Internet” had to say about this movie I couldn’t resist leaving a message for all the fan-boys out there.
This is not an actual review, by the way.
So, here goes:
Quentin Tarantino is not a genius. […]
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Today I want to talk about silence. I am aware of the irony in doing so.
Anyone that reads this column regularly might remember me talking about “noise” a few times. For those of you that don’t, when I refer to noise I don’t just mean sound. I mean the ever-present […]
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I would like to start this week by thanking reader Mike for suggesting this week’s topic. I hope I can do it justice.
When I wrote about IRL three weeks ago, I focused mainly on how the Internet is falsely assumed to be different from the rest of reality. This week I will (hopefully) […]
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If you’re anything like me (which is both possible and impossible) then sometimes you know things without knowing how you know them. By this I mean intuition. This might sound supernatural to some, but I don’t think it has to be.
First, it’s not for me to say exactly what intuition “is.” […]
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Coming up this weekend is St. Patrick’s Day. For anyone that’s Irish, this means it’s time to celebrate being Irish. By this I mean getting drunk. For anyone not Irish, it means celebrating the fact that the Irish get a holiday. Again, by this I mean getting drunk.
I was […]
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If you’ve ever belonged to a forum, message board, online game, networking site or really ever tried to reconcile what you do “online” with what you do “offline,” then you’ve probably heard the phrase “in real life” a.k.a. IRL.
Now, the idea behind IRL is that what you do online is not related to […]
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Around New Year’s, I visited a friend in Tennessee. He lives in a little town outside of Nashville and plays in a funk band. I spent the night at his show and had a fairly decent amount of fun. It’s about four hours from where I live, so I of course drove. I went […]
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Go is my favorite verb.
There is a movie called Go. There is a game called Go. When you’re little you learn to say, “I have to go” when you need to use the restroom. It’s not uncommon when you get a little older and feel a particular way about someone to ask them […]
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It’s Valentine’s Day. This happens once a year. We buy candy, jewelry, cards and flowers for each other. We take each other out to dinner. Sometimes we do a lot, sometimes a little but it’s all to make someone special feel special. Sometimes we write the whole thing off. Regardless of what you […]
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Geneticists now tell us that we are more or less half of our mothers and half of our fathers. Each of us is a quarter of each of our grandparents, a 16th of each great grandparent, a 32nd of each great great grandparent, etc.Of course this only applies to our genes.
I, personally, am not […]
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I had a conversation with a friend today that seemed to me oddly relevant.
Sorry. A little bit of background: This friend of mine is the kind of guy that’s on top of technology. He’s got the nicest TV of anybody I know. He has all the latest entertainment hardware. All of his gadgets have […]
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Since I spent the last two weeks pretty much on the same topic, I would like to talk about the difference between philosophy and ideology. I mean philosophy here in the personal or possibly functional sense not in the broader academic sense.The ideas are similar in that both are used to describe other ideas. […]
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Hey! Thanks for coming back.
If we are going to formulate any kind of idea about the meaning of “Soul Power,” we should first take a look at the two terms in the phrase.
Power can mean a lot of things, but is still the easiest to define so I’ll start with it.
With regards to […]
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Even though it kind of got eclipsed in the news, I’m sure most of you heard James Brown passed away on Christmas day.
I went to the funeral and have some amazing pictures and video, but I can’t really say anything you can’t already find elsewhere – except perhaps it was the least funeral-like funeral […]