April 2008
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My Last Moments With My Friend Ray
Nearly eight years ago, I wrote a message titled simply Goodbye, Old Friend. You may still be able to find the original elsewhere online, but I have also added it here, because I didn't ever want to lose it, so I recreated it here just over three years…
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Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz
The other night we decided to take in a show. Not just any show, mind you, but a musical. That alone should be a bit of a warning to you. It's not every day that we go see something different, and it's an even stranger occurrence that we…
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Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day
Today, April 29, 2008, marks the 30th anniversary of Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day. Started way back in 1979, this event offers – you got it – free ice cream. What could be better? Well, perhaps a free steak dinner or just giving you free money, but…
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Do You Have a Sense of Security?
As I'm eating lunch yesterday, who should be on the television but the Pope! He's just pulling into Yankee Stadium in his Popemobile – a modified Mercedes that just looks wacky, with an enclosure on the back where everyone can see him, and presumably he is safe from…