In the movie “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, Lana Turner stands with her hands on her hips and snarls at John Garfield: I used to think the reason I fell for you was because you were smart. Now I find out that you are smart, she says. It’s a really great line in a really great film. I mention it here apropos of nothing. Or everything maybe. I get those two mixed up all the time.

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"Everything is everything." I wrote that once when I was on acid. Scribbled it. Scrawled it. Boy was I proud. It sounded deep. It sounded profound. I said to myself, I bet no one else ever thought that before. Turns out I was wrong. Everyone has.

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In '94, I went to Mardi Gras with the boyfriend du jour. A few weeks later, Kurt Cobain died. He joined that club. The 27 Club. It was very sad. But not a surprise. Everyone thought he would join that club.

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Or, suna setchin, 砂雪隠 (snow-hide).

A feature of some Japanese tea gardens, located near the inner waiting bower, symbolic of a host's regard for his guests…no, that’s not quite the right idea…

In  order to explain  this rightly, you have to remember that every detail of a tea garden serves some purpose. There is a distinction between the inner and outer gardens (and perhaps one or more additional zones), in that worldly cares are, perhaps, still present,  in this

American musician and combat specialist, born in 1989 in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents were both quite wealthy -- her father had made his fortune on the rhino-fighting circuit, while her mother was an extremely successful pirate and opera singer. Swift spent several years working on the family's Christmas tree farm; usually, these only make money in December, but Taylor was an expert on the hard sell, so they managed to sell Christmas trees all year long, including to