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    JUL
    2
    2009
    Like my Dad always used to say: "Where there's a will, there's a way to tie it up in probate for YEARS!"

    MAY
    22
    2009
    Like my Dad always used to say, "Tomorrow is another day full of opportunity. If we turn off the alarm clock and shut the drapes tight enough, maybe we can sleep through it."

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    My Birthday...    Thursday
    Hometown...    Washington D.C.
    You can find me...    In the strangest places
    Surprising fact about me...    I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
    Favorite band growing up...    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
    Last good book I read...    "Blindness" by Jose Saramago
    My favorite drink...    Beer
    Favorite website...    The Straight Dope

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    An Encyclopedia of Assholes

    An Encyclopedia of Assholes
    4 star rating
    reading non-fiction, avid reader

    JUL
    5
    2009

    Subtitled "Scumbags, Slimeballs, Sleazoids, Lowlifes, and Jerks Etc" I had very high hopes for entertaining reading when I picked up this book at a downtown Austin independent book shop. What I found was entertaining, and very well written, but without any nominations that would have intelligent, rational humans either jumping up in defense of the proposed sphincter or at least thinking "maybe not such a gaping one after all..."

    For the most part, you read this book and you nod in approval.

    The book is divided into sections with gaping sphincters from the realms of politics, media, the corporate...

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    2 star rating
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    26
    2009



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    Buggheart wrote on May 22, 2009


    Hey! Haven't seen you in ages. It was nice to see your hat and smiling face one the front page when I logged in. :) Hope all is well with you!


    mrkstvns wrote on Jan 28, 2009


    That's a great question, Sharri, because so many museums and cultural sites do close on Monday. Fortunately though, Teotihuacan is open Mondays too, making it a great way to spend the day.


    Mack51 wrote on Jan 26, 2009


    I am going to Teotihuacan in early Feb. Thanks for your tips. Do you know if they are open on Mondays? Thanks, Sharri


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