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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:18pm
To: Patrick
call me - some kind of problem on metro on red line - smoke on tracks...come home
reply: Our house lights keep flickering?
Should I buy some more alcohol? I mean blankets, more blankets?
42 more minutes
7:06 PM,Christy
think red line is back now - lights keep flicking

Henry David Thoreau’s mother stopped by once a week to do the writer’s laundry as he mused around Walden Pond.

photos that gain the most traction play into the desires of both journalists and the public for a story with a distinct victim and aggressor.
At the center of most stories we tell, is the struggle between good and evil, If the ingredients are there, that is what journalists will grab onto and present.

Margaret Wise Brown died tragically early at 42, though it should be noted that she died playfully. She was in France, hospitalized for appendicitis (“I’ve really enjoyed this odd French Hospital …” she wrote to a friend), and after the routine operation she seemed to be recovering uneventfully. One morning she kicked her leg can-can style to show a nurse how well she was, and an embolism killed her instantly.

In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sent an animal-breeding expert to Africa in hopes of creating an army of half-man, half-monkey soldiers. Attempts both to inseminate women with monkey sperm and impregnate female chimpanzees with human sperm failed.

He walks over with a Sharpie mounted on a 4-foot stick and begins sketching. He is looking at photographs of natural phenomena and glancing at the images to help him understand the flow and motion of the natural events.

The straight male performer must be attractive enough to serve as a prop, but not so attractive that he becomes the object of desire