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Friday On The Margins Of America

Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 26 September 2012 -

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I came to the mall on Friday afternoon, the first day of the new iPhone. The traffic was backed up on the freeway for thousands of feet from the mall exit. Wow. People in this area have created a thing where they line up on the shoulder of the freeway and inch forward. I went into Whole Foods but I saw...

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American Ingenuity

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Personal 26 September 2012 -

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I was in a place that is a center of knowledge. I got into a conversation about politics with a guy that works there. A young Chinese guy wearing short shorts and a flight bag slung across his shoulder joined us. This place attracts people that want to have an intellectual experience. The guy that works there has a bright spirit that draws people to him....

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Vanity Fair is Slipping

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Commentary 26 September 2012 -

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media criticism

Critiquing the October 2012 issue. Vanity Fair is slipping. This magazine is supposed to be about current events but increasingly it seems to revisit well-worn stories. There's a lot of stuff about the Kennedys and infamous murders that took place decades ago. October's issue contains a piece on James Bond. We're told that he was, "a literary crea...

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Gerard Butler is Sexy!

Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 24 September 2012 -

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gerard butler

That's all I wanted to say.

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Movie Rant

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Commentary, Personal 03 September 2012 -

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movies

What's so difficult about making a movie that a person could go to on a Saturday? All the themes of death, depression, divorce, disease, and dysfunction have been explored. Trust me, I attend film festivals. Cross it off your list and go back to making movies a person would want to watch, if you can do that. If not, get out of the film business. Write poe...

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Well . . .

Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 03 September 2012 -

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city life

I was at a crowded food court. This guy started talking to me. He looked sort of homeless but he had a way with words. It turns out we are both writers. He wanted to know what I did. I was sitting in my wheelchair and he looked homelessy so I thought, do you really want to get into THAT conversation? But I said, "nothing" and asked him what...

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Bring Back Paper Ballots

Posted by Luminosity , in Politics, Recommended 02 September 2012 -

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politics

In my lifetime, paper ballots were counted by hand. They did this at each polling place with a representative from each party watching. The results were tallied and the box with the ballots was sealed and delivered to the elections office. I think that the results were posted on the wall outside the polling place. There were multiple checks on fraud at ev...

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Does picking Ryan signal an intention to steal the election?

Posted by Luminosity , in Politics 02 September 2012 -

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politics

What did Romney hope to gain from adding Ryan to the ticket? According to polls he needs more votes to win and he can't get more votes from Ryan, who is to the right of Atilla the Hun. Anyone who would vote for Ryan would already have been voting for Romney. To broaden his appeal he would have had to add a centrist to the ticket.

Ryan can only increase v...

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What's the Most Frightening Part of the Republican Convention?

Posted by Luminosity , in Politics, Recommended 02 September 2012 -

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politics

(Gleaned from watching Democracy Now's coverage) http://www.democracynow.org
The fact that a few billionaires are trying to buy the next election and won't even answer questions from journalists?
That billionaire Sheldon Adelson's daughter body-slammed a Democracy Now cameraman without provocation and stole his camera simply because they ask...

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Poems and Quotations I

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Poems & Quotations 12 August 2012 -

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quotations, rumi, voltaire

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m,m,m,m

........Rx: Take one Rumi poem in the morning and another one at night.
...................Repeat as necessary.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You...

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