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My Cat vs Human “True Love” Poster
A few months ago I started regularly reading a web comic called Cat vs Human. It’s really crazy just how closely Yasmine Surovec’s experiences with her boyfriend and her cats mirrors mine and my wife’s experiences. Her insight into cat behavior and the strange situations that arise from letting cats into your household and into…
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Lazy Postal Workers? East 14th Street “POS” Office
As it’s name implies (see above image), this “POS” office performed poorly today. Despite the fact that there was more than one person in our apartment all day (excluding the ‘must have been in the bathroom and didn’t hear when I knocked’ excuse), I found a missed delivery notice in the mailbox, stating that I…
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New Semester, New Books
Fall Semester started yesterday. I didn’t have much of a break, since I took courses over the Summer, but two and a half weeks off seemed long enough to me. I spent most of that time rotting my brain with video games. I haven’t sat around playing video games for hours on end in years…
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Back to Boka: Delicious Fried Chicken
Last May I went to a restaurant called Boka: Bon Chon on St Mark’s place in Manhattan. I wanted to take my mom out for something nice for Mother’s Day and she’d never had Korean food so it seemed like a good choice. We were both very satisfied with the food we ate, and after…
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The Mortality of Man, As Expressed in the Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh
(Orpheus in the Greek underworld. On the left, Hades and Persephone are seated on their thrones. Orpheus is attempting to win his wife’s freedom from the underworld through his beautiful music.) The final paper that I wrote for ‘World Civilizations: Pre-History to 1500’ dealt with the concept of man’s mortality in the Odyssey and The…
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The Limelight Market
The Limelight Market, located at the corner of 6th Avenue and 20th Street, is a pretty interesting place, but mostly because of the building it occupies. As you can tell from the exterior, this building used to be a church. When you get inside, you’ll see that the chapel has been converted into a series…
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A 30 Dollar Cup of Pre-Digested Coffee
What you’re looking at is 30 dollars in a cup, believe it or not. This is Kopi Luwak Arabica. Why is it so expensive? Well… It’s all in the digestion… or production… process. You see, this coffee is made from beans that have been previously digested and crapped out by an Asian palm civet. In…
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The Power of Religious Texts in History
This is something I wrote for a World Civilizations: Pre-History to 1500 (101) class. The task was to pick a piece of literature, from religious texts to epic poems to economic records found at archaeological sites, and then describe how that work affected history. I suppose you could say I took the easy way out…
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I am now a stalker, says the crazy neighbor.
After getting off the bus, I turned the corner and started walking up the street towards my mom’s apartment building. Just after turning the corner, I saw the woman that lives next door to my mom. She stopped for some reason and turned around and when she saw me she threw up her hands and…
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