Category: writing / books
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What Scares Me
Given the time of year, a lot of people have been writing about what scares them (see EvilFlu, CarissaJaded, SnoopDogg). Never one to avoid a bandwagon, here is what scares me: WolvesTo me, a wolf with its teeth bared is one of the most frightening images I can think of. If something is going to…
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Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven tells three interwoven true stories: the history of the Mormon faith, the current life of Mormon fundamentalists, and the 1984 murders of an innocent woman and her baby daughter at the hands of brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, two such fundamentalists. The implication is that the Lafferty murders were not…
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The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 4
Good news everyone!1 I’m still single. That means I continue to check free internet dating sites once in a while, scouring them for the worst of the worst to mercilessly mock for your entertainment. And I mean it when I say “once in a while.” It doesn’t take long to find this stuff. The saddest…
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