It has been a while, since health organizations and the government have been trying to implement measures to drop considerably the number of obese people in the UK. A survey [ … ]
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Turn and Cough It Up
The Dismembered Black Knight’s immortal punchline, “’Tis but a flesh wound,” really rounds into form when you’re living without health insurance. Since I can’t even afford antibiotics to battle the [ … ]
It’s All in a Name
Men are taught very young that what women really want is tall, dark and handsome. Well, as a 5-foot 6-inch redhead shaped like a bowling pin, I find those qualifications [ … ]
Ice-Fishing: One Man’s Pursuit of Manliness
There are two groups of people in Northern Minnesota – those that hunt, fish, and own snow-mobiles, and those that do not. The ones that belong to the first camp [ … ]
URBAN WARFARE
I received this invitation to attend the Congress For The New Urbanism (CNU) Press Luncheon with my friend held at the Metropolitan Pavilion here in New York City. It was [ … ]
The Lower East Side
Long Live the Revolution Long Live the Revolution of the Pseudo Anarchist Hippy Bohemian Squatter Revolutionary Lower East Side In Alphabet City where God Bless America becomes God Fuck America [ … ]
Death of a Neighborhood
In 1985, I saw the movie “Beat Street” that’s about break dancing and grafitti artists living in the South Bronx and I thought “Wow!” I wanna be like them. So [ … ]
Humming Along
Every so often, I feel the world is coming to an end. It can be because of straightforward news, like that they’ve just upgraded the terror alert. Or, it can [ … ]
The Loss of Dr. Thompson and Our American Dream
After several days underground, I have at last emerged, ready to reflect on the recent and tragic loss of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. For a twenty-three year old writer struggling [ … ]
The Great Social Security Scare
President Bush has wasted little time cashing in what little political capital he has gained with his majority election this past November. Just weeks into his second term, Mr. Bush [ … ]