question:
"Let all heretics know positively that their places of assembly shall be taken from them, whether these are designated under the name of churches, or are called deaconates, or deaneries, or whether meetings of this kind are held in private houses; for all such private places or buildings shall be claimed by the Catholic Church ( Read more... )

there's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
and the bells in the steeple too
and at the 405 an absurd little bird
is popping out to say "cuckoo"


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tomorrow i have to hit the road again: minneapolis, st. paul, rochester (minnesota), eau claire and madison (wisconsin). i have 1,000 amusing storeis but just can't spit em out, because i am on the road so many times!

stay tuned.

overheard in nycGuy: And she had the nerve; she didn't even ask me to be her friend. She just sent me her profile ( Read more... )

cookie salon tonight, with lights and crackles and swank tunes.


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Queer: Stop calling your arms "guns"!

--Times Square shuttle


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linkFour U.S. soldiers face disciplinary action for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels... but they will not be prosecuted because their actions were motivated by hygienic concerns, the military said Saturday. TV footage... showed American soldiers setting fire to the bodies and then boasting about the act on loudspeakers to taunt insurgents ( Read more... )

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link
Milwaukee [is] ranked as the seventh-poorest city in the nation with 41 percent of its children living in poverty.

one place i'm interviewing:
link1/31/05 - Faced with mounting financial losses and declining patient volumes, St. Michael Hospital is closing 69 beds and consolidating other services... [on] Milwaukee's north side, a population ( Read more... )

1. new war news now posted at http://domystic.wildhunt.org/warnews/index.html here's a sample:

linkDENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm ( Read more... )

( early bird gets it. )