:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, May 07, 2004 ::

Haiku

if you live you die
nothing lasts forever now
we are immortals

:: Jim Nichols 5/07/2004 10:16:00 PM [+] ::
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So this insane guy comes up to me as I'm walking out of the drugstore and asks for a paperclip. I tell him I don't have one. He walks off quite distressed. It got me to thinking, man it would suck to be him. Not only is he insane, but no one has a paper clip he can use.

:: Jim Nichols 5/07/2004 08:33:00 PM [+] ::
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This is the start of a story. Its a short story, so don't worry about getting comfortable, it will be over before you have time to think about it. And its not like I want you to think about any of this anyways. I'm just writing because I have nothing else to do. You're just reading for the same reason. Maybe you think you should have something to do. Maybe this is just my two cents to help you along the way to get to that no-where special that you've always dreamed of getting to. I don't know and I don't really care. All I know is this is my first short story. Its about a boy with fire engine red hair. He eats too fast and can't digest his food very well. Sometimes he chokes. This is a short story about the last time he choked. He swallowed so hard and then he turned blue. He turned blue, and everyone around him began to scream. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. He wanted to breath, but he couldn't. This is the part of the story where the boy with fire engine red hair dies. THis is the point where you ask yourself why you kept reading. This is the point where I ask myself why I don't stop writing....

:: Jim Nichols 5/07/2004 01:22:00 AM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | Health | Pensioner's 'Do Not Resuscitate' tattoo:

"Ms Polack, 85, from Lyndhurst in Hampshire, is so concerned about unwanted medical care that she has invested in a ?25 tattoo across the front of her chest.
It reads 'Do Not Resuscitate' in capital letters and is set around a red heart with a line through it. "

:: Jim Nichols 5/06/2004 11:27:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - New Finds Put Maya Culture Back a Few Centuries:

"Archeologists excavating a 2,500-year-old Maya city in Guatemala have unearthed buildings and massive carvings indicating the presence of a royal metropolis of more than 10,000 people at a time when, scientists had previously believed, the Maya were only simple farmers. "

:: Jim Nichols 5/05/2004 11:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Study: California economy hinges on housing - 2004-05-05 - Sacramento Business Journal:

"New-home construction helped drive California's economic recovery in 2003 as the industry generated $59 billion in economic activity and more than 526,000 jobs, according to a new study by the Sacramento Regional Research Institute paid for by the California Building Industry Association. "

:: Jim Nichols 5/05/2004 08:44:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Rall's 'Tillman' Cartoon Pulled by MSNBC.com:

"A cartoon questioning late footballer-turned-soldier Pat Tillman's credentials as a 'hero' was pulled from MSNBC.com this afternoon. The drawing also brought Ted Rall 110 e-mails in less than 15 minutes. "

:: Jim Nichols 5/04/2004 03:31:00 PM [+] ::
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"No one gets the relationship they deserve. For some this is a cause of unending resentment, for some people it is the source of unending desire. And for some people the most important thing is that they have found something that doesn't end." --Adam Phillips

:: Jim Nichols 5/02/2004 04:07:00 PM [+] ::
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