Re: Where the Orient Meets the Internet

And now a cautionary tale about why you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
Back in the 1990s, the European band Noor Shimaal put out an album of North African music. In Arabic, “noor” means “light” and “shimaal” means “north” so roughly translated “noor shimaal”  is “northern light”. My friend, Zara Noor (Terri Massa), [...]

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Re: Watering Holes in the Great Waste Land

Winter time, not just sick time, tends to be my television watching time. Not having tuned in for awhile, I was shocked at some of the changes that have taken place in Telly World.
For starters, since when is every other show on the tube a knockoff of either “Law and Order” or “CSI”? I mean, [...]

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Re: Door Stop Wars

*Insert Imperial March theme music here*
The University of Arnor, thanks to its penny-wise, pound-foolish fiscal policy, contracts out its custodial services to the lowest possible bidder.  The end result, apart from spotty cleaning, is that we are occasionally treated to bizarre episodes like the following ….
*Insert Star Wars Opening fanfare here*
Last week, in a library [...]

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Re: It’s a Crime

Fan-made Oscar poster by JoshMC.
The more I watch the “Dark Knight”, the more impressed I am. This not simply a good Batman movie or even a superlative Heath Ledger vehicle–it is a new classic. And it’s a shame that it has been shut out of contention for “Best Picture”.
“Batman: The Dark Knight” is, at its [...]

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Re: Diseased Thoughts

So I just spent the past week lying on the sofa suffering through the worst sinus infection known to man and, as a result, watched way, way too much daytime television. Commercials included. After seeing the trailer for “Friday the 13th, Part 23″ again for the fiftieth time, I had to wonder: is a hockey-masked, [...]

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