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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008An eyewitness account of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The implications of the Human Genome Project. Heart transplantation, liver transplantation in an HIV-positive person with hemophilia, and surgery to separate conjoined twins (twice!). Dollhouse scenes of brutal deaths. Growing pharmaceuticals like food crops. Liquid breathing. Cocaine plastic. The secret of color-changing Silly Putty, hugging [...]
Edgar and Me
Monday, December 24th, 2007When I moved to Baltimore in 1982 I knew nothing about the city except that it had a pioneering trauma center, and Edgar Allan Poe is buried there. I’d read in the Memphis Commercial Appeal about the mysterious visitor who left cognac and roses at Poe’s grave every year on the night of January 18th, [...]
To Oh-Oh-Seven
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007The leg’s in the smoker and the Juice is on ice Gore rests on laurels at Vick’s dog fights Goodbye Fredo, fade-out Sopranos Pootie YouTube nappy-headed hos Bubble bursts, bridge falls down Six entombed underground Surges, purges, foot-tapping urges Castro’s not dead, but Ladybird is Helmsley’s pooch, Gere’s smooch Lindsay’s hooch, Britney’s cooch Blackwater [...]
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