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March 2010
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My wife loves Johnny Depp. We're watching The NInth Gate for the umpteenth time. Then the line she loves so much comes up on screen. Boris Balkan looks at Dean Corso, "There's no one more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash." My wife beams, "Ooo, I LOVE that line."
My wife and I are eating at Virginia Kitchen in Herndon. It's a favorite hangout that serves breakfast and lunch only. Linc, the owner has three kids and always askes how our radio show, or book, or project of the moment is going. Today she had pot roast and I had a tomato and cheese omlette. Cynthia notes one of the booths has a piece of it's covering coming off. It's a homey kind of place and the people are all characters. She finishes a bite and laughs, "They didn't waste a penny on ambience here."
"We have a rodent infestation," I say as I watch a cadre of squirrels bound around our deck. My wife has thrown out a bag of pistachios scattering them all over the deck. "They're not rodents," my Bunny chimes in. "Yes they are dear. Rabbits, squirrels, rats, they are all rodents." i respond. She points to their cute little mohawk emulating tails, "It's all in the hair dear, it's all in the hair."
"Fred supervises then naps for a bit, then supervises and naps some more." Cynthia is talking about our cat Fred. Anyone who's met Fred likes him. I even occassionally tweet as Fred. He has more followers than most people.
"You should aspire to be Fred." As she walks off I realize she's right.
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A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.
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My wife and I are driving to the New Orleans airport and we pass a billboard that says, "COMPLETE HERBAL AND DETOX CENTER, PARADISE ADULT VIDEO" She looks at me and says, "That's why we're all demento down here."
"That Nasty Bug. That's the only thing I'll kill." My wife is expounding her views on the stink bugs that have plagued the east coast now for several months. Literally everyone has them in their house and we have one on the TV. She says this, but it's always me who has to dispatch the poor little creatures.
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"You want more Goldfish?" I ask the Bunny, as I point to the empty papel towel which only moments before was piled with Goldfish. "They all swam away.." She laughs out loud.
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"Did you hear that? And you wonder why I'm half crazy all the time." My wife and I are sitting in the office. She is on hold with Blue Cross Blue Satan. We are listening to endless commericals about sleep apnea, how they'll be right with us, and how they give to the community. "I don't want them to give to the community! I want them to lower my rates! These people have more money than dirt!"
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"Great movie." The Bunny is making a comment about Altered States. We've been on a kick recently, watching it three or four times in as many months."It's a great movie." She continues, "It only took me twenty years to understand it."
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