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Entries from June 30th, 2006

Ketchup Decantation – The Definitive Report

June 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Fascinations

How To Pour Ketchup From A Glass Bottle As it is written, Shake and shake the ketchup bottle None will come And then a lottle1 DrHGuy’s Decadent Qualifications One should first understand that DrHGuy is exclusively interested in the skill of ketchup-pouring, and then only on a conceptual and dilettantish basis. In fact, were it [...]

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How To (Correctly) Not Take Medications As Prescribed

June 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations

Want to improve your healthcare and the healthcare system at large? … and, in the process, decrease medical costs? … without changing doctors, moving into an ashram, or giving up any of your disgusting vices? Remember this promise from Take Your Blog Reader To Work Day? Finally, sometime in the next few days, I’ll let [...]

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The Way Cool Booty Song

June 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Music

The [Booty Got] Back Story Fact #1: In the beginning, at least as far as this topic is concerned, was Found Magazine, and Found Magazine’s raison d’etre was — and still is … collect[ing] found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse [...]

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The Sexy Microsoft Windows XP Ad

June 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations

No, that’s not a typo. This is a sexy ad promoting the soon to be outdated Microsoft operating system, not the latest Apple iWhatever. Of course, unless you hang around the internet too much, you’ve never seen this ad. Who else — if not DrHGuy — is gonna tell you about this stuff? The Production [...]

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Get Wet

June 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Media

The Prelude I’m especially parsimonious about recommending blogs. For one thing, it feels at least a tad presumptuous for me to tell anyone else to read another blog. But, I have every confidence that I can overcome the obstacle of ostentatious humility. And, I do worry about making so many recommendations that any impact such [...]

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Porter and Dolly Are Both OK

June 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Self-Referential

In yesterday’s post, I cavalierly raised some worrisome issues without resolving them. Porter & Dolly For example, Then, I speculated on Dolly’s feelings about Porter Wagoner after their professional split and tried to recall if Porter were still alive. According to the Dead or Alive? web site, Porter Wagoner is still alive and will celebrate [...]

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Freud and His Damn Dog – Roy Grinker On Being Analyzed By Sigmund Freud

June 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations

On a rainy Sunday in northern Illinois, ones thoughts naturally turn to Freudian anecdotes.

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Breeding Turkeys: A Short Story By Julie Showalter

June 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Published

Julie’s1 short story, Breeding Turkeys, is now available. To download a PDF version of Julie’s Breeding Turkeys in manuscript form, right-click on the next link, and choose “Save Target As …” Download: Breeding Turkeys.pdf _____________________Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author with whom I had a outrageously wonderful 20 [...]

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Nude! Nude! Nude! Teachers! Teachers! Teachers!

June 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, HOAG Site

The Search For Nude School Teachers Newbie blogger that I am, I treasure each and every viewer, regardless of the route through which he or she arrived at the perpetual gala that is the Heck Of A Guy Blog. I do, however, have a special place in my heart for the cyber-pilgrim who, according to [...]

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Then They Stay Dead

June 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie Showalter, Poetry, Self-Referential

Sometimes, it seems that predestination and fate are hard core realities rather than abstract concepts, and the notion of choice becomes as impotent and meaningless as an obscure and once disputed grammatical rule of a long dead language. Sometimes, I have no choice about the content and direction of my thoughts. Today is one of [...]

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