8.17.2005

the x factor

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"It's a surprise." Strikes dread into the heart, eh? There was a recent study demonstrating that women who had something sprun...
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8.16.2005

bad kitty

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photograph courtesy of the Weir Farm Trust
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8.13.2005

the smoke standard

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I like to know what time it is, kinda sorta. (The Rolex, friends, has recently been recalibrated, but though I just got it back last week, I...
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8.10.2005

whistling in the graveyard

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Here's to you, Josh. Sorry we didn't have any marijuana to smoke in your memory. All we had was beer and tears. We love you. Why I c...
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8.09.2005

all or nothing?

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photograph by Donna Ferrato The one hand says "todo," all; the other says "nada," nothing. Eenie meenie minie moe. Why I...
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8.07.2005

why

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My friend died today. He was too young to die. His twin babies are like nine months old. I was walking on the street looking at all these o...
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10 days later

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So far today: Cups of coffee: 1 Glasses of ice coffee: 2 Crossword puzzles: 1 Newspapers: 1/2 (well, it's Sunday) Bananas: 1/2 Bowls of ...
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8.05.2005

exhibit a

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"Double Happiness" Taiwan On loan from the Cigarettes from Around the World collection.
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8.04.2005

reality bites

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"But reality can be boring," said the 60-year-old writer. "I love reality," said her sculptor son. "Reality is gre...
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8.03.2005

be here now

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Not to be unduly grim, guys, but the prognosis is death. For all of us. We can cut down the risk factors—the cigarettes, the booze, the eat...
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8.02.2005

nonsmoking establishment

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8.01.2005

addiction update

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Postintervention report: cups of coffee: 1 bananas:1 grapefruit juice: 0 crossword puzzles: 0 diet pepsis: 2 york-klondike ice creams: 1 bot...
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7.31.2005

set for the weekend

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The title of this blog could just as well be Why I Can't Stop... drinking, gambling, shopping, fucking, eating, working, medicating, doi...
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7.25.2005

go fish

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There's a smell in the kitchen. Not like chicken. We have sniffed. We have investigated. We have scrubbed: the garbage cans the lids of ...
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7.22.2005

crash pad

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"She was lying on the floor in the hall naked in front of the fan," my roommate reported. "I moved her to my bed." Later...
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7.21.2005

five o'clock shadow

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glasses of grapefruit juice: 2 cups of coffee: 3 crossword puzzles: 1/2 bananas: 1/2 lunches with friends: 2 beers: 6 full moons: 1 cigarett...
7.19.2005

spitting out seeds

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This is a watermelon. It was cut, like most of our clothing, in China. A lot of our tacky hotel art is painted there too, along with those o...
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7.18.2005

macho woman

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"I don't get why we are having this war in Iraq anyway," said a friend who doesn't read the newspapers much. I tried to ex...
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7.17.2005

addiction report

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Crossword puzzles: 1 (Sunday) Cups of coffee: 2 Beers: 0 Glasses of grapefruit juice: 0 Cigarettes: 1 Why I can't stop smoking: I'm ...
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7.15.2005

readership appeal

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photograph by Chris Garrison In a shameless appeal for readers, I present this as the reason for both why I should stop smoking and why I ca...
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