Monday, June 30, 2008

samuel clemens

Beasts of the East...Still

Samuel Clemens Samuel ClemensPortrait of Samuel Clemens, 1835.Why is it that the New England Patriots have, what one could consider, one of the easiest schedules in the NFL? 7-9, 4-12, and 1-15. That would be the 2007 records of our division rivals Buffalo, New York, and Miami. In 2007, we handed our AFC East rivals a handy 0-6 with the closest game, believe it or not, being a paltry 10 point win over the Jets in Game 14. 2 AFC East teams have STILL not decided on a quarterback: the Jets and the Dolphins. Can you imagine that kind of instability a read
OBT: George Carlin!
 pronounced Samuel Clemens �sole, Samuel Langhorne Clemens This is a huge chunk of childhood, and formative years, and personal thought processing, and just a part of my being gone . . . Comedian George Carlin dies at 71 Anti-Establishment icon gained fame with his ‘Seven Dirty Words’ routine BREAKING NEWS, updated 48 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a read
Biology Never Was The Same: Mark Borrello [Greg Laden's Blog]
He began life as Samuel L. Clemens Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference, I'd like to relate at least the essence, as I saw it, of an excellent talk by Mark Borrello. I've seen Mark speak at least three times including yesterday, and soon after his talk we continued on the topic in a conversation over lunch and beers, so my comments here are less a summary of Mark's talk at the Evolution 2008 conference than a more general reaction to what I believe to be his main points. Everyone knows that history read
The Wishing Tag
 to see the Samuel Clemens House.Samuel Clemens, most noted for his The Wishing Tag I picked this tag up from Arv from ...on the Wall The rules are simple, all you have to do is to thoughtfully consider the following, and choose one item for each of the categories below. (Be sure to describe your reasons for choosing) 1) One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read? I have to confess that the Tao Te Ching has been on my book shelf for years... and I have never read it in it's entirety.... maybe someday I'll do that! 2) One song that you li read
Somebody Stop Me…Please
 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) ever  Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, On Vogue’s accessories closet, fashion faux pas, another closed indie bookstore, crazier addictions and even crazier promises to stop, and a great pile of books: There’s a scene in an episode of “Sex in the City” where Carrie Bradshaw is given access to Vogue’s accessories closet. Held in a room the size of a normal person’s living room are accessories on loan from every high fashion designer in the industry; some of the items most people never get to see unless they have a bank account of li read

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