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5 Things Everyone Should Know About Alzheimer’s
1) It is an incurable, degenerative, and terminal brain disease that slowly destroys memory and cognition. The earliest symptom is typically the inability to acquire new memories. As the disease progresses, long-term memory begins to disappear, confusion and irritability become common, language … Continue reading
Vote Wisely
Tuesday is Election Day. Perhaps we should rename it Vote Day, in hopes that more people will take the hint. I’m still undecided on several of the candidates. For example, I’ve got to cast a vote for the 14th district of the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged amateur politicians, Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, Bush, Democrats, Election Day, news media, Obama, politicians, Politics, professional politicians, Republican Party, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Baggers, tea party, Tea Party rhetoric, term limits, Vote Day, Vote Wisely, voter frustration
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Howl For Allen Ginsberg
Like most, I began my “Beat” literary journey with Jack Kerouac and then went on to William S. Burroughs before getting around to Allen Ginsberg. After all, Ginsberg wrote poetry, not the kind of stuff you necessarily sit around a … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Film, Literature
Tagged Aaron Tveit, Allen Ginsberg, Beat, Beat generation, Beat literature, Beat movement, Bob Balaban, Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, Carl Solomon, City Lights Books, counterculture, David Strathairn, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Howl, Howl and Other Poems, Howl the movie, James Franco, Jeack Kerouac, Jon Hamm, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassady, obscenity trial, Peter Orlovsky, poetry, William Burroughs, William Carlos Williams, William S. Burroughs
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Halliburton to Blame for BP Oil Well Catastrophe?
Sometimes I wish I believed in conspiracy theories. This one is a gem. It turns out that one of the reasons for the BP gulf oil spill, the largest offshore oil spill in US history, was faulty cement used to seal … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged BP, British Petroleum, Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, Bush administration, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, government corruption, gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Iraqi War, KBR, oil spill, tax dollars, tea party, Vice President Cheney, War in Iraq
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This Little Piggy Went To Heaven
This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef is a strange name for a strange place. A strange, wonderful, glorious place. Owned by the same folks who brought us Artichoke and Led Zeppole, This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef is really nothing more … Continue reading
Posted in Eats
Tagged Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, East Village, Little Piggy, Little Piggy Had Roast Beef East Village, Little Piggy Had Roast Beef NYC, Little Piggy Had Roast Beef restaurant, Little Piggy Had Roast Beef review, Manhattan, New York, New York City, NYC, Roast Beef, Roast Beef Sandwich, This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef
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MMMMMMMMMMotorino
Motorino was a tough nut to crack. Located on 12th Street near First Avenue, the East Village outpost of this Brooklyn pizzeria is way too small for its reputation. And I’m not big on waiting in lines, especially in a … Continue reading
New Sex Study Proves To Be A Tease
Boing! Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion (is it too late to change my major?) released the most comprehensive survey of American sexuality since the true emergence of the Internet, including online dating, social networking, and porn of every … Continue reading
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Tagged Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, Center for Sexual Health Promotion, Did Al Gore invent fisting?, Indiana University, Internet, Internet porn, online porn, Pubic Hair Removal among Women in the United States, Sasha Grey, sex research, sex study, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, The Joy of Enemas, Trojan condoms, Web porn, World Wide Web
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INTELLIGENT ANIMALS: Dolphins Blow Bubbles
My friend Darryl forwarded the video clip below. The dolphins in this aquarium not only blow bubble rings out of their blowholes, but they then play with them – sticking their heads through the rings or twirling them like pretzels with their noses. … Continue reading
THE NON-EVENT: Shock & Awe TV
The Event (and no, I’m not going to flip the second “e” because that’s as silly as this insipid fricken show) combines all the sappy plot lines of every modern disaster movie with the alien intrigue and government conspiracies that kept The X … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Burning Love Institute, burningloveinstitute.com, Chase, Inception, Lost, NBC, NBC's The Event, Reservoir Dogs, television, The Event, The X Files, West Wing
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