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Mike Tidwell in today’s Washington Post: “December should be national Green-Free Month. Instead of continuing our faddish and counterproductive emphasis on small, voluntary actions, we sho… more →
Sixteen Tons
Somebody Gets It
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sledpress wrote 2 days ago: Mike Tidwell in today’s Washington Post: “December should be national Green-Free Month. … more →
Signs Of Market Recovery
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sledpress wrote 2 weeks ago: I think. Or maybe just signs of douchebag infestation. Thing is, I was driven to antihistamines last … more →
Not If I See You First
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sledpress wrote 2 weeks ago: I blistered my arms and abs in the gym, did a few planks, played around with single-arm pullups on t … more →
Torque
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sledpress wrote 3 weeks ago: I have encountered nearly every musculoskeletal overuse syndrome there is, if not self-inflicted the … more →
Little Sled
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sledpress wrote 4 weeks ago: My father’s widow, the Serpent Woman, has been cleaning out his desk and file cabinet. His des … more →
A Boy And His Bog
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: Yes, that kind of bog: for those of the non-UK persuasion, the restroom, the little boys’ room … more →
Butt Woman (IV): or, No Pressure
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: I was in the gym next to the sled press I love so dearly, doing the Plough pose as part of my warmup … more →
Alma Mahler, or, Falling Short Of Ideals
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: Every so often I catch myself reviewing my credentials as a femme d’un certain age with a chec … more →
Epidemic Of Fat Dumb Young Crooks Crashes Combat Readiness
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: Well, I saw this coming. Fifty years ago Adelle Davis pointed to the cholesterol plaques in ther art … more →
Autumn Landscape With Cranes
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: It has been raining almost continuously for the past couple of weeks, occasionally saturating some j … more →
Grey Riesling
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: A respectable lifetime ago, when I was at college in a historically peculiar little place in medium- … more →
Fifty Bucks
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sledpress wrote 1 month ago: My Albino Ex, a quirky sort, had one relationship that was more sacred than any other: his bond with … more →
Wedding Gifts, Or, The Persistence Of Memory
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: When I got married, it was done rather evasively, because no one I am related to is anyone that anyo … more →
Sondheim, For No Particular Reason
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: Yes, the music is Leonard Bernstein’s, but I had forgotten that Sondheim wrote the lyrics. Thi … more →
Dancing Will Resume After A Slight DeLay
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: Tom DeLay to Quit Dancing with the Stars So much for being the hammer. Wuss. … more →
Kewpie Groupie
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: I seem to have attracted a gym groupie. I’m blaming Arnoldo, who foisted him on me for curb se … more →
Thieves' Oil
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: Recently I surfed up a reference to a compound called Thieves’ Oil, for which there seem to be … more →
Malapropism
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: Some stories, even though quotidian and circumstantial, should not die with the original teller. Whe … more →
Professional Ethics
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sledpress wrote 2 months ago: One of the gym’s perennial denizens is a fro-topped, vaguely Italian-American character who go … more →
