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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – #8 SAMSON
Examples of individuals renowned for physical strength are not common in the Bible. One whom most children are soon made aware of, however, is Samson, the revered Hebrew man of steel who would in time...
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HANDS
Wednesday morning I pulled the garbage bins out into the street for collection. When I went back for the second one I discovered a lizard had been sleeping under the first. In dragging out the bin,...
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JAYNE MANSFIELD UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS
By Jim Linderman Jayne Mansfield may have been one of the most photographed women in the world during her brief lifetime, but even fifty years after her death they are “still out there” pun intended....
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ANT WEATHER
In New York City, the insects I encountered most frequently were cockroaches. In L.A. it was ants. My respect for each is naturally profound, but it differs according to their specific forms of social...
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
By dixē.flatlin3 I’ve spent weeks trying to figure out what topic I should close out the year with and I have vacillated between many. Then it happened, I heard something on the radio that caused such...
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EPIC BATTLES #5 TICONDEROGA 1777
The English army was 7,000 strong, including Germans, Indians, at least one pregnant woman and Baroness Riedesel and her three children. The American army was around 3,000 and they held the fort. The...
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THE GAME
Deepak Chopra runs a center for spiritual giddy-up in southern California. His forte is mind-body medicine and he includes golf as a means for contemplating the essential balance between the two. In...
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THE WONDER OF ATLANTIS
In their book When the Sky Fell, Rand and Rose Flem Ath present convincing evidence that Antarctica was in fact the mythical Atlantis. Taking their cue from Charles Hapgood’s Maps of the Ancient Sea...
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OVENSTUFFER PASSES
The death of the Frank Perdue revealed many insights into a feathers-to-riches career that according to The New York Times grossed 2.8 billion in its last year alone. “It takes a tough man to raise a...
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GOING ROGUE: TAXIDERMY IN THE MODERN WORLD
By Jim Linderman I am not sure why taxidermists so often freeze their subjects in fight rather than flight. It makes for dramatic presentation, but most animals I have come across in my life have been...
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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – #3 NOAH
As most children will tell you, one human being alone is responsible for the remarkable abundance of fauna that inhabits the planet. According to the Biblical Genesis, it was Noah, the kindly old gent...
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FOODIE FTW!
By dixē.flatlin3 As a teenager I decided to become a vegetarian. I had developed a dislike for the flavor and texture of animal products, it was not an intentional political statement or act of...
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NEW YORK GIANTS
In 1868, New York cigar-maker George Hull got into a discussion with an Iowa evangelist about the reference to giants in the book of Genesis. George was not a particularly religious man, but he was no...
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SOAP IN THE BUSH – IN AND OUT OF AFRICA
When Baroness, Karen Von Blixen, aka ‘everywoman’ Meryl Streep, discovers that the one brother she’s in love with is not content with just doing her, and the other brother is busy doing everyone left...
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BETTIE PAGE WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN: CELEBRITY BRANDING AND SURFACE DEEP...
By Jim Linderman Not seen in over 50 years, and certainly not identified as Bettie Page at the time of publication, these photographs were in such questionable taste even the “notorious” pin-up model...
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STARBUCKS: A MILLION ASSHOLES PUCKERED EACH DAY
A short man, with short white hair and a short white beard is reading the list of drinks on the wall above the counter. He wears a white Polo shirt and voluminous pressed Levis. “What does Espresso...
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BUGS/LIFE
Director Samuel Orr presents us with a painstakingly beautiful account of the unique 17-year lifecycle of Cicadas. The video is a trailer, a promo, a ‘greatest hits’ version of the full-length movie...
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WE HAVE TO TALK
To a man, the four most terrifying words in the English language. The Los Angeles Police Academy sits in a corner of Elysian Park – one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Its palm-shaded hills...
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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – # 5 MOSES
In the Stage Musical The Ten Commandments, Val Kilmer stars as – or as the poster would have it – actually “is” Moses. According to The L.A. Weekly, the production was originally “launched” in France,...
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HYPNOTIST COLLECTORS AND WALKING ANTIQUES: NYLA THOMPSON AND THE DISHONESTY...
By Jim Linderman Pioneer folk art collector Herbert Hemphill, Jr. was on a mission in the early 1970s. The first director of the nascent Museum of American Folk Art and compulsive collector of same...
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