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For the past ten years I've been having the same dream. It takes place in small mid-western town and has a heavy "Rockwellian" feel. Randy Newman and I are competing in a three legged race against two other teams consisting of Barbara Walters with Forest

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Personal Finance > Budgets & Saving How to save money on lighting: 1 of 12

As a lighting designer I deal with light bulbs on a daily basis. It is my job to put the right light bulb in the right place! I've lit everything from a baseball fields to clothing stores and a thousand homes. I live and breath these things. If it illuminates I am required to know how brightly, with what color and at what co...
Entertainment > Musicians & Bands Music reviews: Punk rock: 5 of 15

I really don't want my friends to start calling me Mrs. Morisette behind my back. So if you feel a certain descriptive term I use in the forthcoming letter is being thrown around inaccurately please feel free to let me know. I believe peer editing to be a valuable and sadly ignored tool. About five years ago I was involved i...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Fantasy: 36 of 79

Dear Mr. Tesla, I must try to ease my discomfort by starting this letter with an apology as I do not normally attempt unsolicited correspondences with strangers. Being that you are dead though I suspect I worry for not but the mere writing of the above salutation has set into motion a fretful and silent twitter that I know f...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Junior high school memories: 25 of 36

I shower an average of ten times a week. Always in the morning and often before I go to bed. Parts of me sparkle. I have a routine that starts with the head, crosses left to right and ends with the feet. It's a simple top to bottom system that relies heavily on gravity. Simply put, I would never wash my chest before washing ...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Confessions: 10 of 11

In Response To A Question Posed By My Friends The Baha Men The worst thing I think I ever did happened on the way to the bus stop in the seventh grade. It was one of those horrible winter days where it was fifteen degrees, the sky was crystal blue and the two feet of snow on the ground (that had fallen over a month ago) was ...