30 Nov 2004, 12:33 p.m.

I Experience Cinema, You View Film, He Watches Movies

I should have checked CAPAlert before taking my mom to Ray; it would have warned us about the excessive sex. Probably the only major movies out that I could comfortably watch with my mom are …

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29 Nov 2004, 16:02 p.m.

More Than Reading Schneier At Lunch, This Reveals My Geekiness

Today I suddenly got mad about the Mercator Projection.

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29 Nov 2004, 15:44 p.m.

Books I Read When I Was Too Young to Really Understand Them

Back to Eden. A denunciation of modern, unholy, unhealthy eating patterns, and a handbook of herbs and more natural healing methods. Lots of enemas. This fascinated me for the anecdotes; I just flipped through the …

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28 Nov 2004, 10:56 a.m.

Then Again, Seeing "Kinsey" With My Mom Would Have Been Pretty Awkward

Sumana is back from a DC Thanksgiving. I picked up the slip opinion of Leocal v. Ashcroft at the Supreme Court, saw my old pal John Stange, sightsaw with my sister and cousin, and ate …

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23 Nov 2004, 21:34 p.m.

It's A Faaaaaaake

Leonard and I watched a bit of an America's Test Kitchen about Chicken Diavola, which does indeed mean "devil-style." CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL: So tell us a little bit about Chicken Diavola. Diavola. Am I saying that …

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22 Nov 2004, 15:16 p.m.

Aha

Elephant Pharmacy IS a chain!

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22 Nov 2004, 14:36 p.m.

In Santiago And A Hospital

For some reason, mild violence struck twice around Bush at APEC this weekend. Reporters scuffled for the best seats at a press conference, and Chilean and US Secret Service bodyguards got into a fracas over …

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19 Nov 2004, 16:56 p.m.

I Hope to Go

Will Franken hits the Odeon tonight.

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19 Nov 2004, 9:43 a.m.

Unexpected

Why does Apologies Accepted make me cry?

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18 Nov 2004, 18:32 p.m.

Wish List

Life is suffering, as Gautama Buddha and George Orwell both said, and the less you want the happier you'll be, to paraphrase Buddha but probably not Orwell. That actually worked for me when I was …

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