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Entries from January 29th, 2007

Blog Imperiled – Help Summoned

January 29th, 2007 · Comments Off · HOAG Site

Because the technical problems that have plagued this site for two months persist despite the best efforts of ordinary mortals, I have induced the mighty SuperShane to come to the rescue.

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Leonard Cohen On The Loose – Rare Concert Songs, Comments, & Covers By Leonard Cohen

January 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Leonard Cohen

Now, what do you want me to do? I mean, I could do anything for you. I could take off my jacket. I could sing naked. I mean we are all here with our terribly shabby human limitations. What can I possibly do except sing a few of these .. ..appallingly simple songs that I’ve [...]

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In Search Of The Heartland Spa Clothes Fairy

January 27th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations

The #1 character at the Heartland spa, the protagonist of its cast, its VIP, BMOC, and mascot/star player/coach rolled into one is (cue fanfare) The Clothes Fairy. But, that’s not the weird part.

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2006 HOAGIE Awards & Internet Popularity Tutorial

January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off · HOAG Site

What Are You Looking At? Heck Of A Guy 2006: Made From Contented Posts Now that the Heck Of A Guy 2006 review has considered the place of Heck Of A Guy posts in the blogosphere, why DrHGuy publishes posts, the quantity and categories of those posts, and who is reading the posts, attention turns [...]

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Leonard Cohen Song You May Have Heard But (Probably) Not This Way

January 25th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen, Music

Who By Fire -The Leonard Cohen & Sonny Rollins Version Night Music With David Sanborn, co-hosted by Jools Holland, ran on TV from 1988 to 1989, featuring guests such as Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Warren Zevon, Charlie Haden, The Residents, The Pixies, and Pere Ubu. A memorable highlight of the show was Sonny [...]

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Celebrity NonCompliance

January 25th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations

Another celebrity has made an appearance starring in Non-Adherence To Medical Treatment at AlignMap.com.1 If you liked Letterman, Pills, & Compliance Enhancement, You’ll love Paris Hilton & Patient Noncompliance _____________________AlignMap.com is my other, ostensibly more professional blog that focuses on patient adherence to treatment [↩]

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Elvis's Rolls Royce – Another Leonard Cohen Song That You Have (Probably) Never Heard

January 24th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen, Music

Leonard Cohen Was (Was Not). No, this isn’t an argument with myself. Leonard Cohen & Was (Was Not) is a collaboration that led to a Leonard Cohen song that you’ve probably never heard, although it’s (relatively) easy to find. So, yes, you should be ashamed of yourself

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Favorite A.E. Housman Poems Served Straight Up

January 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Media, Poetry

XXVII from More Poems To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill. X from Last Poems Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, [...]

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Know When To Hold Them, Know When To Fold Them

January 18th, 2007 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Self-Referential

¡No más! ¡No más! It required the formation of an Axis of Evil that included both my sons, the company that handles my satellite internet access, the hosting site of this blog, The Mazda Motor Corporation, the Automobile Association of America, Dell, Inc., a major bank, a healthcare insurance company, two local workmen, a trash [...]

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No-Fat No-Exit Cooking

January 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Bagatelles

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook1 We have recently been lucky enough to discover several previously lost diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre stuck in between the cushions of our office sofa. These diaries reveal a young Sartre obsessed not with the void, but with food. Apparently Sartre, before discovering philosophy, had hoped to write “a cookbook [...]

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