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Entries from August 31st, 2006

Pish-Posh Pastiche Post

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles

Check Out This Junk If you read the title, you have already been treated to my only significant original contribution to this post. The remainder is an indulgence in the notion that an accumulation of worthless items somehow has a value the individual items lack. This is, as anyone who has attended an arts & [...]

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Meeting Fictional Characters

August 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Media

Celebrities As I mentioned in an earlier post,1 I have had only two or three minor interactions with celebrities and have laid eyes on perhaps another half-dozen in settings other than performances (e.g., I watched Valerie Harper cross Michigan Avenue). That I recall these instances at all indicates that I am susceptible to the fascination [...]

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Books About Houses: A Handful Of Madeleines

August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Madeleines, Media

Five books recommended for anyone who is buying a house, who already owns a house, who lives, has lived or might someday live in a house, who has ever played house, … Why Read About Building Houses? First, none of these books falls in the Do-It-Yourself Project genre. Nor are they polemical tracts about ecologically [...]

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Contracting With Patients To Follow Prescribed Treatment

August 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles

Contracting For Compliance , the post this Friday past at AlignMap, my professional blog and web site, deals with a West Virginia program that would provide certain healthcare benefits, in addition to those covered in a basic healthcare plan, to individuals covered by Medicaid if and only if they formally agreed (i.e., signed a contract) [...]

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I Was Sinking Deep In Sin … wheeeeeeeee

August 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles

Hear The Invitation; Come Whosoever Will For your Sunday morning salvation, The [Occasionally] Right Rev. DrHGuy invites you to Objective: Christian Ministries (AKA Objective: Ministries) It may be that only a lapsed hard-core fundamentalist such as DrHGuy can fully appreciate Objective: Christian Ministries. As the opening line of Saved! puts it, I’ve been born again [...]

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Saturday Is Not Just The Day After Friday

August 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines

The word “weekend,” which started life as the grammatically correct “week-end,” lost its hyphen somewhere along the way, ceasing to be merely the end of the week and acquiring, instead, an autonomous and sovereign existence. From Waiting For The Weekend by Witold Rybeczynski

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Awesome-o Sends Greetings

August 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Friends-Family

One of the gifts Julie brought to our marriage was a dandy extended family. Especially notable are two nieces, whom our own children, AKA Da Boyz, have always assumed had no other purpose in life other than serving as their own playmates/baby-sitters/enablers. Although the younger of these nieces (whose childhood ambition was, like every other [...]

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It's Not Just Another Movie Singalong

August 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles, Media

I have found few cinematic phenomena to be more gratifying than well-scripted spontaneity. And, of the multitude of scenes exemplifying that trait, the most heartwarming and most reliably satisfying, it seems to me, are those sequences which feature a group of cast members breaking into an informal, joyous sing-along, dance-along, or sing-&-dance-along, suffusing the moment [...]

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Arts and Crafts Day

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items

Amuse yourselves by painting like Jackson Pollock.

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Almost There

August 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

Don’t Worry – Of Course We’ll Be Finished Today The move to to the current site of 1HeckOfAGuy.com is almost complete. I just pulled the switch to render the old HeckOfAGuy subdomain into cyberdust. Depending on how rapidly I can tidy up the old place and how many unforeseen hassles I have to de-hassle, I [...]

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