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There is a quote: "Not illness, but health is the great mystery." This may not be the exact phrasing, but the gist is that we are surrounded by germs and yet we remain healthy for the most part. Would anyone know the exact quote and/or the source? Thank you.

I chatted with another LJer some years ago and she lives in northern Italy, Tuscany as I recall.  Anyway, there's a custom among the region's restaurants to hang baggies of water in the kitchen to ward off flies and the baggies have a number written on them?  Like 13 or 42 or 69 or something?  It's, er, bugging me.  It seems she showed me a YouTube ( Read more... )

I used to buy this calendar at Borders Books. It was vivid -- multicolored with a lot of graphic content. It was laid out like a long timeline, horizontal. It was maybe four sheets long, with each month bleeding into the next one. It was useless when it came to actually writing things on the calendar but it had so much strange and interesting ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a Christmas song which I think was alternative. Came out around 2005-2010. One guy was the singer but I think he had a band playing different instruments. And they used see-through glass trucks like from "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" by Maroon 5. It was a music video about being alone on Christmas and being happy with that. In the ( Read more... )

I have no idea of year, band name, or even song title ( Read more... )