Tag: random musings
member name: Mike Ball
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September 01, 2006 12:06 PM EDT --
First published September 1, 2006
I recently had my first colonoscopy.
Ta-daa!
Ok, I admit we're not talking about coming home with a Pulitzer here, but I'm still pretty darned proud of myself. . . .
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May 06, 2006 09:33 PM EDT --
First published February 3, 2006
When I was a kid, my parents loved to humiliate me by hugging me in public, or to crush my dreams of glory by keeping me from sky-diving off the tool shed. Back then, . . .
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January 04, 2007 01:50 AM EST --
Not too long ago I treated my readers to the details of my colonoscopy, an often-feared medical procedure that turned out to be a bit of a technological miracle. Of course, after that little excursion . . .
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May 02, 2006 11:57 AM EDT --
First published January 13, 2006
This is a little out of season, but I'm posting it at the request of Heather.
You know, to me the worst thing about a Midwestern winter is not the gray skies. It's . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:50 PM EST --
I got an iPod for Christmas. This proves that you can accomplish just about anything if you put your mind to it. And if you're willing to whine a lot.
Now, I realize that not too long ago I wrote . . .
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May 23, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
The Gig is finished. My throat has recovered to the extent that I can croak out whole sentences. I've polished most of the flop sweat off the guitars. I've collected my check. And through the whole . . .
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May 07, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
First published February 10, 2006
Last week in this column we tackled the use of "blogs" by "Generation Y," or "Generation Z" or "Generation Shrek" or whatever . . .
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May 15, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
What I've Learned So Far... Today
Your Daily (Almost) Dose of Satire
May 13, 2006
One of the most common bumper stickers seen on the road in the past year or so reads, "Don't Blame Me, I . . .
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May 04, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
Not too long ago I had to wear a suit. Honest, a jacket, a tie and everything.
And socks!
It was my nephew's wedding, and my wife convinced me that the Dockers, golf shirt and dress flip flops . . .
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April 16, 2006 08:02 PM EDT --
First published April 16, 2006
Well, it's Easter. This weekend commemorates the sacrifice that Jesus made for all of us when he was crucified, suffered, and died for the sins of all mankind, then . . .
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April 19, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
First published August 26, 2005
All the time my son was growing up I coached his ice hockey teams. This means that I spent years standing around ice rinks, plotting complex strategies and line combinations . . .
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April 29, 2006 01:07 PM EDT --
It was just after a session of sunset barefooting, and two of my friends were carrying me up the dock from the lake. My wife was standing on the shore with her hands on her hips in that universal wife-pose . . .
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June 01, 2006 11:14 PM EDT --
Your Daily (More Or Less) Dose of Satire
June 2, 2006
Three separate research papers published in the June 1, 2006 issue of the journal Nature all indicate that 55 million years ago the Arctic enjoyed . . .
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December 24, 2006 02:42 AM EST --
Well, we’re in it now. There’s snow on the ground, and every public building you walk into has either Bing Crosby or Weezer crooning about it. Holiday cards have started coming in from all . . .
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January 21, 2007 06:48 PM EST --
My son and I recently went into a candle store to buy my wife a candle for a gift. On purpose. Just the two of us guys.
What could we have been thinking?
When I was a kid, there were two kinds of candles . . .
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May 16, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
I have a gig coming up. How cool is that?
For those of you who are not rock legends - or who have never watched a television show or a movie about rock legends – or who have been living on one of . . .
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April 15, 2006 01:38 PM EDT --
First published October 21, 2005
It's October, so a lot of people around here have already taken their stuff out of the water and stored it away for the winter. These are the same people who didn't . . .
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November 08, 2006 10:05 PM EST --
What I've Learned So Far... Today
Now that the elections are over, an eerie silence hangs like a pall over the American countryside. Phones have stopped ringing. People no longer arrive home to find . . .
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November 29, 2006 08:30 PM EST --
What I've Learned So Far... Today
Washington DC, November 29, 2006
George W. Bush today once again emphatically asserted that Iraq had not slipped into civil war.
Natalie Clap, the Third Assistant . . .
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April 09, 2006 08:59 PM EDT --
First published July 9, 2005
As I mentioned in this column a few weeks ago, I have a Doberman named Brenna, who happens to be the biggest baby of all dogs. Ok, I know what you're going to say; that . . .
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