Cosmic
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Go Read.
Any snark would just be detritus on the pristine surface of that man's ever
expanding worldview.
Far Fucking Out
Via
8 hours ago
Who, Us?
"...provides a ruefully funny running commentary from a homeless writer blogging from the public library. The subject is mostly local and national politics, but from a perspective far removed from the Villagers' presumptions, and with the occasional whiplash-inducing detail on life as it's lived with chronic depression and no permanent address."
scott of World O' Crap
WE'RE NO LONGER HOMELESS, NOR TYPING FROM THE LIBRARY. DOES THAT MAKE THE ENTIRE PLUG INOPERATIVE? WE'RE STILL BI-POLAR, IF THAT'S ANY HELP.
Readability Index:
Yet refreshingly juvenile.
We're Laughing Right Now. Why Aren't You?
I think we can all agree that it is intrinsically funny when someone who has so little interaction with the real world that they are running a blog uses that blog to air their deep insights into the personalities and inter-personal issues of other people.
— Herr Doktor Bimler, of The Anti-Podes
(The above, while not directed specifically at this web log, certainly applies.)
FDL News: Roundup
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Going to knock off a bit early today, unless anything major occurs. Have a
safe New Year, and wish along with me for a better decade starting tomorrow.
• A...
Obama's New Year's Eve Wishes (VIDEO)
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Before President Obama left for his Hawaii vacation, he recorded a video
message offering his best wishes for the New Year. Transcript and video
below.
...
Celebrity New Year's Resolutions
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Jason Segel pledges to work out less, Mandy Moore will pick up a guitar,
Hugh Grant may become a cattle driver, and Susan Sarandon just wants to have
fun. ...
YEAR IN REVIEW: Obama’s bloody re-election calculus
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YEAR IN REVIEW: Obama’s bloody re-election calculus By Thomas H. Johnson and
M. Chris Mason, Foreign Policy, December 10, 2009 Obama’s new “strategy” is
no...
Ensign Ambushed on Sex Scandal
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Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) does his first CNN interview expecting to discuss
terrorism but gets grilled on his sex scandal instead. It's must-watch
video.
Classic TV Moment
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Sen. John Ensign goes on CNN to demagogue the terrorism issue and gets
ambushed with a series of questions he's never answered about his affair and
the eth...
New Year’s Eve in Afghanistan
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Our buddy Michael Yon just forwarded a link to his latest post from the
front, and we wanted you all to see it as you get ready to celebrate the
arrival of...
Celebrate 2010 with a Kalashnikov!
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OK, we don’t mean emptying a full mag into the sky — that would be
inconsiderate. This year, we’ll celebrate with a different kind of shot from
a Kalashnik...
The War Nerd Looks At Yemen: An Exile Classic
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This article was first published in The eXile on November 13, 2002.
Reading the leaks from Washington, you can tell we’re gearing up to do
something in Y...
Mrs. Palin's Style Review or Happy New Year, Sarah!
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I read this article by Cathy Horyn in the New York Times last week when I
was swamped with holiday madness. Ms. Horyn compares the very different
sartorial...
Mufti Usmani Holds Blackwater Responsible for Blast
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*Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism*, also USAID Officer
Arrested with Terrorists in Islamabad and "Extraditing Headley will Expose
CIA"
*...
Wingnut Wrapup
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The last load of garbage for the year. Yes, Green Eagle never sleeps (more
than 14 or 15 hours a day, on average) when it comes to rooting out right
wing l...
Today's Bonus Video Link
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Did you watch the Kennedy Centers Honors telecast the other night? This
year, they honored Dave Brubeck, Robert DeNiro, Grace Bumbry, Mel Brooks and
Bruce ...
What If Al Gore Criticized Bush After 9/11?
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Shouldn’t we all be supporting our President right now? Aren’t we all Americans? United we stand, divided we fall? These colors don’t run? Well, not if you’r...
Bill S. Walks a Mile in Rob Lowe’s Christmas Shoes
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I’ve got a treat for you, kids. Today we’re fortunate to be visited by
longtime Wo’C guest columnist Bill S., scourge of wingnut movies and critics
alike, ...
Double End Times
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So 2009 passes into history, and so does the first decade of this new
century – on the night of a full moon and a partial lunar eclipse. But the
eclipse wo...
RADIATION
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As I recover from whatever laid me low, the Dark Matter is back…“Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may have spotted the cl...
"Future History of The Nothing Man"
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(Thematic basis for this song: A "Nowhere Man" - due to economic privation -
for 2010)
[image: MailBoxDrive]
By Alex Constantine
*All rights reser...
The End of the Decade
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Oh, my dear Lord, let's hope the next one is better.
The farther down this corporatist, military/industrialist, fundamentalist,
predatory-capitalist right-...
Thematic Photographic - Feet
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Each week Carmi at Written, Inc. has challenged readers with a theme for
photographic inspiration. This week the photographic challenge continues
with the ...
you look so fine
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this holiday season has been full of perpetually reincarnated fictional
british heroes: on christmas day we got to see our favorite time lord, as
well as...
Glenn Beck's Nazi Fans
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*After an ADL report says Beck may foment violence, I visit racist Web sites
to see if their denizens are listening *
*By Alexander Zaitchik* | Salon | N...
The Story Of American Workplaces
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*(This post is part of Brave New Films' 16 Deaths Per Day campaign, for
which I am a blogger fellow.)*
Steven Greenhouse reports in the New York Times that...
PrePaid Legal, BlastOff Network, Better Life
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*BLASTOFF* with *Jenny Lens
*
You are here because you are either fans of the people I photographed or my
photos. I'm *looking for a few, qualified, moti...
HAPPINESS IS A 40 PROOF MELON ON A 90 DEGREE DAY
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The heat has made me restless, thirsty and irritable. Not the 'water' kind of thirsty but the Big Daddy Dino kind of thirsty. The 'Fill my glass and let's ge...
Yes! Mr. Ranger Sir!
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Why is it the "Ranger's/People" at the Griffith Observatory are such a bunch
of control freaks??? Are they fighting a war for 9-11 or something??? Every
ti...
Who loves ya, baby?
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This is the official site of the Savalas Family. This site is maintained by real
Savalas family members. We maintain it to honor the legacy left us by our
...
Better Bullshit Detectors needed
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Hello. I'm calling from the Zapotec culture in pre-Colombian Mexico. Is that the Toraba.com auction house? I'd like to inquire about a suit of samurai-era Ja...
The Golden Rule
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Perhaps the most galling characteristic of the banksters -- aside from their
utter lack of common sense or basic empathy -- is their sheer cluelessness.
It...
The Perfect Year
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Scissorheads – Thanks to you it has been another perfect year – from the
bottom of my toes, to the tip of my nose, I want to thank each of you for
the fun,...
Punk in Indonesia
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This podcast's first story - in addition to having a bunch of other good and
enlightening stuff - is about Marjinal, Indonesia's top punk band. They
speak ...
New Year’s Eve in Yoshiwara
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My kinda town. Updated techno score by the New Pollutants.
Robot Maria dance number is quasi-NSFW…but all of your co-workers are
already smashed, so wha...
Top Albums of 2009
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All in one post. GO! Jack Oblivian The Disco Outlaw Goner While Greg
Oblivian has become a bit of a garage rock superstar, and Eric Oblivian has
turned Gon...
Happy 2010!
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The spectacular fireworks display from Sydney, Australia last night, where
of course, it’s already tomorrow. Best wishes to everyone for a safe and
happy N...
Working on New Year's Eve
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I have always considered New Year's Eve to be "amateur night", so working it
has never been a hardship. In fact, the only occasions I refuse to work are
th...
No Masterpieces, No Flops #1
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In a recent post Scott Walters invites readers to participate in a
discussion about Quality by throwing out this curveball: there's no such
thing as Qualit...
“This is How Conservatives Are Made”
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The Corner, as my fellow intellectual masochists know, is the daily blog of
the formerly-relevant National Review. Like the Jewish resorts in the
Catskills...
Favorites of the Aughts...
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I will remember the Aughts warmly, as if they constituted a time period that
spanned ten years.
Favorite Five Films:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
Burnsie--Secret Agent Book Cover Critic
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My dear friend, the director of the S-town library, gave me a beautiful
Channukah gift of this book (people see crazy covers and they think of me,
go figur...
Tweet, twit, twat
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Click to embiggen Check the time stamp, Meg. When the little hand is on the 12... I don't even want to think about where your big hand is. Regards, Tengrain
Shock and Awe
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Well, Thers, the war must go on, and nothing says war more than Romanian
music videos. Am I the only one that thinks that it’s a bad idea to keep a
pistol ...
Holiday Contest Hiatus
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My usual Thursday Contest Game Puzzle Thing has been postponed for the
holidays. I'll kick it off again next Thursday, Jan 7, 2010, so look for it
then!
...
Worst News Of The Past Two Days Of The Decade
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I TRIED, really, to come up with some End of the Naughts schtick. Okay, not really, but as a thought experiment, which centered not on "come up with an idea...
Drowning, Not Waving
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Megan McArdle is doing what Megan McArdle loves best, arguing with another
blogger. Nothing calls attention to one's self like playing the victim, and
McAr...
Where Every Day Is Opposite Day
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Mickey's take on health care is pretty formulaic at this point, so there
really isn't much to examine. The man has literally three concepts that he
trots o...
evidently you can’t trust press tv
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Three internationals injured in Cairo protests Ma’an News Agency, Dec 31
2009 Two women and a man were injured by Egyptian police during
demonstrations wit...
A McIlheran hypothesis
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Maybe the Journal-Sentinel has said that the more you make your readers "roll on the floor laughing" with posts rife of "lunacy," the more hits you will gene...
In Which We Wrap It The Hell Up Just In Time
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'09 The Year In Review
by MOLLY LAMBERT
What the fuck happened this year? Seriously. I sat down to write this list
and already I can't remember a single...
Rush Limbaugh Deathwatch
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Damn.
Early reports had him actually dead, which means he likely suffered a very
serious attack before they were able to clamp him down with bungee cords ...
A public service announcement.
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I spent yesterday morning struggling with a nasty piece of malware,
Antivirus Live. This piece of shit takes over your system by, among other
things, rewri...
We Get Mail
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So yesterday’s mail finally brought a letter from BlueCross BlueShield of
Tennessee. It reads:
On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 10:00 a.m., BlueCross BlueShie...
DBTL 51B: City of Shadows - Intervention
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*This is the latest installment in the **Drowned Baby Timeline**, an
alternate history where Adolf Hitler drowned at birth. With no spellbinding
demagogue ...
God’s killing spree of 2009!
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Holy crap, God sure was busy killing his way through Hollywood this year.
What is up that guy’s ass lately? You’d think the guy would just sit back,
relax ...
Rush Limbaugh Fakes Heart Attack for More Oxycontin
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In an Impious Digest exclusive, it was revealed today that Rush Limbaugh
faked a heart attack for more Oxycontin. Limbaugh, pictured here whilst
faking a...
Smudged & Fiddled with
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Whatever the fuck is Ann Althouse on about...now? Wait, what am I even saying? She's talking shit! Rush Limbaugh has said on his show many times that once th...
Just Once
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Just once I’d like to read a news article in the western media that talks
about Yemen without including the line “…is the ancestral home of Osama bin
Laden...
Today's Birthdays!
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1869: Henri Matisse 1908: Simon Wiesenthal 1921: Rocky Graziano 1941: Sarah Miles 1942: Andy Summers 1943: John Denver 1943: Ben Kingsley 1947: Tim Matheson ...
Best New Year’s Resolutions Ever
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If asked about your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010, the best response is “I
am far from perfect, but self-criticism sessions went out with Chairman Mao.
S...
Gay for a day!
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I don't know what the problem is, but I haven't been getting as much
attention from men lately. Just last Friday I had to sneak an empty beer
bottle out of...
Wednesday Cover: Creepy #9
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One last Creepy cover by Frank Frazetta for 2009. I picked this one because
it played nicely into the sword & sorcery kick I've been on this month.
Enjoy.
That Was the Decade that Wasn't
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And you thought the eighties sucked!!!
"The child walks into the elementary school nurse's office on a Friday
afternoon, He is crying. He is hungry. He doe...
The Trap (2007)
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AKA Klopka
*Isolation and Murder in The Trap *
“I’m trying to do at least something right in the end.”
*The Trap* (*Klopka*) a Serbian noir film from di...
Eyes not shot
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It's December 24, and that cable channel has already begun its marathon
showing of A Christmas Story, the film which has become our Official Holiday
Classi...
Pretentious College Student Goes To Mass
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Yep. It's Christmas Eve which means it's time for my family's annual visit
to church, which means I went to Mass, despite (as readers of this blog are
like...
Mooseblogging: Holiday Satchmo special
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Because few things go better with Louis Armstrong:
We are off for the rest of the holidays, engaging in merry-making, which of
course involves drinking,...
Senate Bill Passes - What Now?
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Conventional wisdom states that the House has to roll over during
reconcilliation. Because, hey look - the Senate only just barely managed
their supermajo...
Before I saw Avatar . . .
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Before I saw *Avatar*, I believed that science fantasy action romance movies
were just science fantasy action romance movies, and that popcorn was just
pop...
This Isn't Likely To Turn Out Well
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1. I am bothered by people outside, on streetcars, in stores, etc., watching
me.
Isn't everyone?
2. There's no point in doing things for people; you only ...
They're At It Again
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Well I though I was through posting for the year, but this story by Chris
Rodda grabbed my attention. *Wheel of Fortune* was hosting a Heroes's Week
and on...
Meet The Press - December 20, 2009
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Guests:
David Axelrod
Howard Dean
Joe Scarborough
Markos Moulistas
Ed Gillespie
Tavis Smiley
****************************
Gregory: Axel did you win or sell ...
On second thought, fuck you
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So I’ve just read what seems like the 10,000th post bewailing (or calling
for) the death of Health Care Reform. Well. No one could be more surprised
than m...
Snowman
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It is a classroom, one of many on the hall. As is true of each classroom, there is a sign next to the door. But where most of these signs offer a number and ...
I for one welcome our new cephalopod overlords
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Octopuses discover tool use: A team led by biologist Julian Finn of Museum
Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, was observing 20 veined octopuses
(Amphioctopu...
QOTD
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Question Of The Day: Why was President Barack Obama given the Nobel Peace
Prize?
Answer: Because there's no such thing as the Nobel Prize For American
Pre...
Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog.
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Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing c...
There is no place like Nebraska
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The boys are definitely the squarest.Nelson said he and other senators, "perhaps" including Democrats, plan to introduce an amendment "something like Stupak"...
Gave it a year. Grade? F.
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JP-B sez: Ever since Joe Wilson’s crass display during Obama’s speech back
in September, I’ve been truly fearful of what lies ahead for our country. I
see ...
FML
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What’s new with me, you ask? Well, I pretty much had the world’s best job
and I done got laid off. Is it bad that the first thing I thought was
“yessssss...
Quicksulphur
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Apres Levitt et Dubner, et à cher frère Cadre. When America had industry we
were in the unique position of being so big that you could feasibly dump a
thou...
Subtopia Lecture: Ruin Machine
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[image: wusd-fall09lectLRG]
Dear all. It’s been way too long for the eerie subtopian silence to not
finally come to an end, I know (and appreciate your pati...
Elvis Gets Wired The Wrong Way
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There are apocryphal stories that say Elvis Presley's last words were, "My
only regret is that I didn't live long enough to record a song with The Meat
...
Going Public
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Amidst all the hollering about Obama's plan for health care reform and the
"Public Option", it's becoming easy to lose sight of the larger picture. So
perh...
All Aboard the FAIL Train
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Serial philanderer who repeatedly exploited 9/11 to consider running for
governor of New York. Will once again bet everything on Florida. In related
news, ...
Unfunkked Eleven is melting.
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Testing, testing, is this thing on? I didn't die over vacation, if you were
wondering. But I feel like I'm pretty well blogged out, and I've enjoyed not
ha...
Sometimes There Are No Words
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One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible
loss.
Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.
WE'VE MOVED!
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Get your SCAN on now at the new The Black Snob site on The Secret Council of
American Negroes' new homepage! Check out the latest report on the
revolutio...
Volto em Fevereiro de 2009
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Decreto hoje, iniciadas as minhas férias! kkkk... As quais, até fevereiro de
2009, estarão implicando também na minha participação por aqui! Porém, tem
mui...
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IM FINALLY BACK IN ICELAND...AND SOOOOO HAPPY ;)
An American guy sent me this the other day on myspace, check it out. Proves
Im not crazy...or well at least...
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