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

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Oscar Nomination Thoughts

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Well, it's kind of an interesting Oscar year. While last year was generally a weak movie year, there were some fine movies out. The big...
Monday, January 23, 2006

William Tenn Event - Saturday, January 28, 7:30pm, 937 Liberty Ave

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Benefit for the Production of a Documentary Film on William Tenn Malacandra Productions presents An evening to benefit production of the doc...
Sunday, January 08, 2006

More Red State Family Values - Censoring Brokeback Mountain at a Utah Multiplex

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I'd really like to see Brokeback Mountain , a movie that has yet to reach Pittsburgh for some reason or another. Interestingly, it'...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

New Job, New Nephew and Applesauce Gingerbread

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OK, so this is something of a mix of things! This has been an interesting week. I started a new job with a very small company on Monday. I...
Sunday, December 25, 2005

Meme of Four

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I enjoy doing mini-surveys/quizzes, though I like to try to trace them back to see where they started. I still haven't found the actual...
Saturday, December 24, 2005

Happy Holidays!

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Saturday Morning Edition's Scott Simon read a wonderful piece on this morning's show called "A Modern Day Mary and Joseph....
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Senator Specter: Begin Impeachment Proceedings NOW

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Dear Senator Specter: I am horrified by the way our civil liberties are being trampled by the Republican party in general and by our adminis...
Sunday, December 18, 2005

Temporary Domain Problems

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If you've tried to access anything at dpsinfo.com, you might have seen a temp page from Network Solutions. If you've been expecting...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

Wicked Legalized Ticket Scalping

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We had high hopes of being able to see Wicked when it came to Pittsburgh this winter. We knew tickets would go on sale on Monday, December...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Tigra, 1993-2005

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Our cat recently turned 12 and seemed in pretty good shape. About two weeks ago, we noticed she was having trouble getting up the stairs. ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Howard Dean Comes to Pittsburgh and Why I Am a Registered Democrat

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On a rainy October night, Howard Dean showed up at a very well-attended fundraiser. Since I've been unemployed for most of this year, I...
Wednesday, October 19, 2005

A Little Novel Progress

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As it typically goes, I fall in and out of fiction writer's block with great regularity. This year, I've written more fiction than ...
Thursday, October 13, 2005

Busy, Traveling and More Busy...

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I've been pretty busy lately, as my lack of posting here can probably indicate. I started a full-time two-month contract job, helping to...
Monday, October 03, 2005

My Letter to the President Re Harriet Miers

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Dear Sir, The notion of nominating an individual without any experience as a judge to our highest court is completely appalling. However, ...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Marching in Washington Against the War

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While I've been to a number of rallies in DC over the years, this is the first anti-war rally I've been to. During the Viet Nam era...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Whad'Ya Know?

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Yup, if you listened to Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know , broadcast over NPR from Cleveland this morning, that was me at the end of t...
Sunday, September 04, 2005

Government by Gumby

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"My brain hurts!" (the Gumbies on Monty Python ) We've long suspected that the average IQ of the average member of the Bush g...
Friday, September 02, 2005

Dead: New Orleans and the Myth of the Responsive Government

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Well, there's no doubt about it now - if you are poor, and there's any kind of emergency, there's no such thing as a government ...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

More Junk Movies...The Emporer Has No Clothes

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I'm a movie fan. I used to go to at least 2 movies every month in the theater. Until this week, I think the last movie I'd seen in ...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

How Well Travelled Are You?

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OK, this one is Charlie Stross's fault... Your Travel Profile: You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (100%) Yo...
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