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Not-so-Occasional Comments on Life, Death and Many Things in Between by Laurie Mann

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Bush and Cheney Partying Like It's 1984...

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Did you ever imagine there would come a time when the executive branch of our government would say things like this about Amnesty Internatio...
Monday, May 30, 2005

Send a "Thanks, George" Note to Senator Voinovich!

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I was reading Leslie Turek's blog where she quoted from Debra Pickett's column in the Chicago Sun-Times . Pickett wrote about man...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Moderation Comments and Novel Progress

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Three cheers for the return of moderation to the Senate (and maybe even the House). It would be nice to not loose our country to the loony ...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Medical Services: Central Massachusetts Versus Western Pennsylvania

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I'm not sure where to start/where to go with this discussion, but I'm puzzled. I live in Western Pennsylvania. We're all in rea...
Thursday, May 19, 2005

Mini Review and Commentary on Revenge of the Sith

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We went to the 9am showing out at the Waterfront. The theater was probably about 1/4 full (but the 3, 5, and 7 pm showings were all listed ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

More Voting Screw-ups

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Well, we all know how things went in November? Think things are any better? Apparently not. I had no problem voting in November. I went to...
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Star Wars in All Its Forms - Honeymooning with Wookiees

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We've been getting in the spirit of the upcoming Star Wars finale by watching the movies. We watched Phantom Menace on Friday and Attac...
Saturday, May 14, 2005

Good News/Bad News Kind of a Day

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Well, first the bad news - I didn't get hired for a full time job, but at least they wrote to me to tell me so (unlike another place whe...
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Non-Smoking Restaurants and that Novel Obsession....

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We've discovered another two restaurants considerate of non-smokers in the Pittsburgh area: Red Robin (out at the Waterfront, just down...
Friday, May 06, 2005

Spring in Pittsburgh

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Two signs, one a little old but one from today, that spring is really here: I'm not sure what the salmon-colored flowers are, but we tho...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Up to 45,000 Words...

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I hit 45,000 words today. Well over 1/2 way through it. I've been envisioning this story for a while, since at least late 2000. The fi...
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Letter to Senator Specter on S. 786

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I appeal to you to please not vote for Senator Santorum's S. 786 - National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005. As written, it could p...

My Linguistic Profile...

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45% Yankee 35% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I'm not ...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Santorum Bought by AccuWeather, Lock, Stock and Barrel

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Do you think you have a right to get free weather information from the government's weather service? Rick doesn't think so - he thi...

Progress Continues on the Novel

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I hit 37,000 words this afternoon, which I suspect is somewhere close to being half way through. If I continue at my current pace, I should...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Missing in Action: Environmental Protection Agencies...

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I spent last week working on Pittsburgh 2005: Conference on Health and Environment . It was a fascinating conference. As I wound up helpi...
Monday, April 11, 2005

If Ya Can't Beat 'Em...The Unitarian Jihad (Reform) Strikes Again!

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I saw the Unitarian Jihad comments from Jon Carroll all over the place, both in political and SF-related blogs over the last few days. So I...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace

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Russell wrote the splendid The Sparrow and Children of God in the late '90s, and went on to win the Campbell Award for best new write...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Really Writing, Not Just Tinkering

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So up until about three weeks ago, I had about 17,000 words of a novel on my PC, one I started thinking of about four years ago. From time ...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

Ayelet Waldman's Excellent Adventure

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I've been a huge fan of Michael Chabon since I read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh back in the '80s. He went on to write The Wonder B...
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