Monthly Archives: September 2011

When fame is fleeting

So Kate Gosselin is looking for a job. The former reality TV star (2007-2011) and mother of eight, currently unemployed, is reportedly fretting over finances and seeking a new gig. Prior to meta-motherhood and small-screen divadome Kate was a registered … Continue reading

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Startling Proof!

Currently on Ebay (for the totally reasonable Buy-It-Now price of one million dollars, plus shipping) is this rather awesome photograph – certainly taken circa 1870 in Tennessee, and maybe depicting Nicolas Cage: Coppola nephew and alleged actor. So what do … Continue reading

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Just make something

One of the perversities of American culture, one that has lamentably spread worldwide, is the conflation of the terms, wealth and worth. As in, “What are you worth?” Asking that question is another way of declaring that one’s net value … Continue reading

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A look back, for Labor Day

Times being what they are, teachers probably no longer ask this question I remember being asked often, or at least once a term, way back in grade school: “Where does your dad work?” One at a time, we’d all answer, … Continue reading

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