An acquaintance of mine has a house that backs up against a nature preserve. He lives there for the sake of family rather than out of an affinity for wildlife. These past few years, he's been out of town, and I wonder if I should have left a note on his door to warn him. Cal will gleefully oblige should I ask him to perform the duty.

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There was once a man who had a wife who became ill. As she was dying, she admonished him never to betray her memory by loving another after she died. She promised that if he did, she would haunt him ( Read more... )

For those of you not still too embarrassed to emerge from seclusion, allow me to put a different spin on yesterday's theme.

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Surviving New York: A Guide for Humans

1. Get to know your cab driver. If he or she smells of the grave, you are about to become a meal for a revenant or ghul. Aim for the head and find another cab.
2. The large dog you just passed on the street is not really a dog, and that was not a milkbone in its mouth.
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Consider, for a few moments, where the English language would be without Shakespeare. Would you still be going to your bedroom, or would someone have had to come up with a better way to describe the space in which we sleep? (Incidentally, the current definition isn't what Shakespeare actually meant.) You might not enter into negotiations, or be ( Read more... )