We become what we repeatedly think; therefore, excellence is a habit, not an act.--Aristotle

Esprit de Corpse: Group Announcement and Community Art/Writing Project

Here we go. Genesis of this is over here, if you are not familiar. In essence this is a traveling book, accumulating art and writing along the way. It is a form of The Exquisite Corpse.

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The Green-Eyed Snowman

Patty took mounds of the white fluffy stuff and rolled and patted the stuff into a sphere. She used some more and made a slightly smaller sphere and put it atop the large one. Then she made a small sphere and put that on top of the medium-sized one.

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Atlantis: Any Truth to Legend? Was anyone even in the Americas that far back?

The legend of the glory and the sinking of the fabled continent or island of Atlantis has haunted the corridors of human history ever since the time of Plato (and if it did exist, then it has haunted us since about 10,000 BC).

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Bacon Perfume and Chocolate Chip Cologne

Tonight at supper another female coworker and I were discussing alluring scents.

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Curbit, the Happy Happy Pumpkin

Curbit was just an average to small pumpkin. Sometimes she felt smaller than she was. She'd spent her whole life, all summer and midway into autumn trying so hard to grow big and plump. The life purpose of a pumpkin is to be useful and Curbit believed she had to be big.

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Restaurant Review: Blue Heron Bistro

I will admit from the start that this place in downtown Coos Bay, Oregon has been one of my favorite restaurants since I arrived in town and found work. My budget does not allow me to eat there often; it's a rare treat.

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Bologna Amputation and Thinsectic Delaputty

Today MSNBC.com published an article by Eric Bland for Discovery about the Army developing 'synthetic telepathy' for sending messages.(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27162401/).

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LVS2: Week 7

And both Andy and JLP Coos have made it through the 6 weeks required to earn the iPhone. Now, whoever is the Last Viner Standing will win the grand prize! Congrats to you both! Week 7 links in this thread please, folks!

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Mysterious Whale Found in Michigan

Grand Rapids, Michigan has a whale. How did this whale get to Michigan?

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Happy Birthday to the Smoot Unit

The Smoot Unit turned 50 years old last week.You can read all about that at the Laughing Squid in a nice little article by Dave Schumaker written October 3, 2008.

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Neurontin and Subjective Pain

Newsweek's Mary Charmichael reported today in an article entitled "Phizer's Headache: Lawsuit charges drugmaker was deceptive about Neurontin": After it paid $430 million to settle a 2004 lawsuit over illegal promotion of its anti-seizure drug Neurontin, Pfizer, the world's lar …

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Last Viner Standing - Special Topic #6: Mystery

As we pull into the sixth week of the Last Viner Standing contest, hosted by the esteemed Mr. Bilokonsky, I am happy to put forth this week's Friday Special Topic..... Mystery.

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Book Review: The Myth of the Goddess

The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image was written by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, first published in 1991 by Arkana, a division of Penguin Books. Anne Baring has also written: The Mystic VisionThe One Work The Divine FeminineThe Birds Who Flew Beyond Time

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Health Insurance for 47,000,000

Is health insurance only for those lucky enough to be healthy and wealthy? Today MSNBC.com published an article by Jonathan Cohn, a writer for Self Magazine, When you are denied health insurance: Sometimes even healthy people can't get a company to sell them a policy (http://w …

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LVS: Week 6 (For the iPhone!)

This is it, Andy and JLP Coos - if you can make it through this week, one of you gets an iphone. You've both done a tremendous job so far, and I wish you both the best of luck!

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Jaxball

This is my 25th article for the Last Viner Standing 2 competition. This time our assignment is to create a game similar to Calvinball. "Age of Drollhouse" is what people are calling it. I LOVE Calvinball. Jaxball is based on the childhood game of jacks.

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Border Collies Don't LIKE Rutabaga

National rutabaga month was September and I did not celebrate. I did not even know until today that there was a national rutabaga month. I also did not know that Forest Grove, Oregon has been the rutabaga capital of the world since 1951.

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Lisa Morris of Florida

On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, MSNBC.com's Herb Weisbaum wrote about the "Canadian granny scam."

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Film Review: Righteous Kill

The title of this film is "Righteous Kill" not "Kills" or "Killing."

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Melamine Food Contamination

Milk Chocolate and Melamine In early 2007, melamine in pet food killed many cats and dogs. In the recent few weeks Chinese baby formula contaminated with melamine has caused illness in many thousands of children, some of them dying.

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Last Viner Standing: Week Five

And then there were two. Good luck, kids - gotta make it through 10 more articles to be eligible for the iPhone. Please, in the name of all that is holy: neither of you quit early! Post links below!

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The Other Grandfather

A person in my life that I would meet is my mother's father. He died of alcoholism and tertiary syphilis before I was born. I have a lot of questions and comments. To protect the innocent and even the not so innocent, I will call him "Tog" in this article.

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Bird Noodle Soup

It HitWhether it was cold or flu, I do not know, but Sunday afternoon it hit me like a brick. I had just finished my job at the restaurant and felt fine. I had changed clothes and punched into my second job as transcriptionist at a hospital at 3:30 p.m.

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Metron Trouble

Metron Integrated Health Systems is in trouble again and President Mark Piersma was not available for comment, according to The Kalamazoo Gazette today.

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54, still read MAD mag; still aspiring to be "one of the usual gang of idiots." Working in medical field for 30+ years. Also worked in news 5 years.

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