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Guest Posts

Beautiful Boy, A book review

by The Beautiful Fraud on July 8, 2009

Note: this post is by my very good friend Lesley, who also writes as The Beautiful Fraud. One day I’m going to talk her into having a blog of her own but until then I am honored that she lets me post her work.
The other day I felt a bit sheepish after I said I [...]

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Paying the Piper

by Guest on May 29, 2009

by Jaimie Marzullo
It’s so tired, so predictable, that we almost wish it wasn’t so. Like a pimp in a fuzzy purple hat and a girl on a dog leash, or a drug dealer with diamond-encrusted fingers standing on a corner in the poorest part of the ghetto. Like Achilles, like Macbeth and perhaps most of [...]

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Beef Cheek Casserole

by Guest on May 27, 2009

Or, yummy unctuous guest post (the food, not the writer)

Tracy’s recent blog on chicken in a can revealed a surprisingly high level of food squeamishness among her readers. It seems that you are not fans of the shiny gristly alien bits that hang off untrimmed meat. Not me, I reserve [...]

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Or, guest post by Numb Nuggets!
I met Numb Nuggets on Twitter and quickly learned he has a great sense of humor as well as being an all around nice guy. Be sure to check out his blog, it’s full of laughs as well as more moving posts, including the touching story of his wife’s battle [...]

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Bringing Your Best

by Madame Fabulous on December 31, 2008

I remember going to the grocery store one afternoon to pick up the usual supply of frozen blueberries, diet protein powder, green tea and potato chips, and noticing a woman who was wearing a grubby track suit with her hair in curlers. I very discreetly stared at her, with my basket of diet and junk [...]

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