9 Great Tidbits Of 'Dear Abby' Wisdom

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From:<a href="http://www.forbes.com/">http://www.forbes.com</a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3c3c3c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"></span><br /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although I have unbounded admiration for each of them, I am not King Solomon, the American Medical Association or the U.S. Supreme Court. I am not Portia, Cassandra, or the Delphic Oracle even. I have, in brief, no delusions about myself or about my work. Although I do put forward the mild claim to some pride in both.</em></div><div class="zemanta-img" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; 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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Dear-Abby" class="zemanta-img-configured" height="240" src="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/alisongriswold/files/2013/01/4814653379_201e1c9af5_m.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 5px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; border-right-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 5px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 5px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">So wrote Pauline Phillips, a <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.forbes.com/places/ca/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0f2d5f; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">California</a> housewife who became a household name across the nation as the cheeky syndicated columnist <a class="exit_trigger_set" href="http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0f2d5f; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dear Abby</a>. Phillips died on Wednesday in Minneapolis at the age of 94, more than a decade after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. But the witty, tongue-and-cheek advice that made Abigail Van Buren famous is sure to outlive her.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Phillips got her start after she appeared one morning at The San Francisco Chronicle to see the features editor, whom she had unabashedly told over the phone that she could outdo the current advice columnist. He handed her a stack of papers. She composed her own responses to the letters. She got the job.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">In her 30-plus years as Dear Abby, Phillips answered inquiries from all types: teenage girls, teenage boys, young women, exasperated mothers-in-law, elderly widows and widowers. Though her replies often contained a trademark bite — and would not all be considered politically correct by today’s standards — they were underscored by a prevailing good humor and sympathy. Below are some of her finest, and funniest, moments:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> I’m 19 years old and not very experienced, but my mother told me to be careful of men with mustaches. Is there any truth in this? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anita</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Anita:</strong> Yes … and also be careful of men without them.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> I don’t want to appear conceited but I’m forced to admit that I am one guy who has everything. Women are always flocking around me and telling me how good-looking I am and what a marvelous personality I have. I’m beginning to find this pretty annoying and extremely tiring. I just want to live a normal quiet life. How can I dissuade these hopeful females? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C.W.</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear C.W.:</strong> Keep talking.</div><aside class="vestpocket" data-position="8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 5px; color: black; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 8px; overflow-x: visible; 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margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> Do you think a mother should take her 14-year-old son to get a tattoo or do you think he is old enough to go alone? Please answer before Saturday. This is important. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Must Know</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Must:</strong> If the boy is old enough to get a tattoo — he is old enough to go alone. In this case he is neither.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> When I was going with Irwin he gave me a parakeet, which I taught to say “Irwin.” Well, Irwin and I broke up and now I am going with a fellow named Ronnie. When Ronnie comes over, the parakeet keeps on saying, “Irwin, Irwin,” and of course, Ronnie doesn’t like it. What should I do?<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beth</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Beth:</strong> Either teach the parakeet to say “Ronnie,” or give Irwin the bird.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> I’ve been going with a girl for two years and can’t get her to say yes. What should I do? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joe</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Joe:</strong> What’s the question?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> My husband has always been very close to his mother and she has never cared much for me. I asked my husband if I was drowning and his mother was drowning which one would he save? He said “My mother because I owe her more.” I am so terribly hurt, Abby. What shall I do? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arlene</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Arlene:</strong> Learn to swim.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> My problem is my husband. He wears false teeth — uppers and lowers — and he thinks it’s real funny to take them out at parties and do a Spanish dance using them as castanets. He thinks he is being the life of the party — but I’m embarrassed to death. Should I keep him away from parties, or should I just tell him that he isn’t funny? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marsha</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Marsha:</strong> Let him have a good time … I think it’s hysterical.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> My boyfriend took me out for my twenty-first birthday and wanted to show me a very special good time. I usually don’t go in much for drinking, but since it was an occasion to celebrate, I had three Martinis. During the dinner we split a bottle of champagne. After dinner we each had two brandies. Did I do wrong? <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blondie</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Blondie:</strong> Probably.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Abby:</strong> I am 44 years old and would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rose</em><br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Rose:</strong> So would I.</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">http://www.nytimes.com</a><br /><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/19/sports/19armstrong3_337/19armstrong3_337-articleLarge-v2.jpg" /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="articleSpanImage" style="margin-bottom: 8px; width: 600px;"><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/01/19/sports/19armstrong3_337/19armstrong3_337-articleLarge-v2.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="caption" itemprop="description" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em;">Lance Armstrong, shown in 2003, showed more emotion in the second part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey.</div></span></div><nyt_byline><h6 class="byline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px;">By <span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/juliet_macur/index.html" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/juliet_macur/index.html" rel="author" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by JULIET MACUR"><span itemprop="name">JULIET MACUR</span></a></span> and <span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/ian_austen/index.html" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/ian_austen/index.html" rel="author" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by IAN AUSTEN">IAN AUSTEN</a></span></span></h6></nyt_byline><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Published: January 18, 2013</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h6><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 22px;">In an extensive interview with <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/oprah_winfrey/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Oprah Winfrey.">Oprah Winfrey</a> that was shown over two nights, <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/lance_armstrong/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about Lance Armstrong.">Lance Armstrong</a> admitted publicly for the first time that he doped throughout his cycling career. He revealed that all seven of his <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/tour_de_france_bicycle_race/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about the Tour de France (Bicycle Race).">Tour de France</a> victories were fueled by doping, that he never felt bad about cheating, and that he had covered up a positive drug test at the 1999 Tour with a backdated doctor’s prescription for banned cortisone.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br /><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong, the once defiant cyclist, also became choked up when he discussed how he told his oldest child that the rumors about Armstrong’s doping were true.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Even with all that, the interview will most likely be remembered for what it was missing.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong had not subjected himself to questioning from anyone in the news media since United States antidoping officials laid out their case against him in October. He chose not to appeal their ruling, leaving him with a lifetime ban from Olympic sports.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">He personally chose Winfrey for his big reveal, and it went predictably. Winfrey allowed him to share his thoughts and elicited emotions from him, but she consistently failed to ask critical follow-up questions that would have addressed the most vexing aspects of Armstrong’s deception.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">She did not press him on who helped him dope or cover up his drug use for more than a decade. Nor did she ask him why he chose to take banned performance-enhancing substances even after cancer had threatened his life.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Winfrey also did not push him to answer whether he had admitted to doctors in an Indianapolis hospital in 1996 that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, a confession a former teammate and his wife claimed they overheard that day. To get to the bottom of his deceit, antidoping officials said, Armstrong has to be willing to provide more details.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“He spoke to a talk-show host,” David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said from Montreal on Friday. “I don’t think any of it amounted to assistance to the antidoping community, let alone substantial assistance. You bundle it all up and say, ‘So what?’</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Jeffrey M. Tillotson, the lawyer for an insurance company that unsuccessfully withheld a $5 million bonus from Armstrong on the basis that he had cheated to win the Tour de France in 2004, said his client would make a decision over the weekend about whether to sue Armstrong. If it proceeds, the company, SCA Promotions, will seek $12 million, the total it paid Armstrong in bonuses and legal fees.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“It seemed to us that he was more sorry that he had been caught than for what he had done,” Tillotson said. “If he’s serious about rehabbing himself, he needs to start making amends to the people he bullied and vilified, and he needs to start paying money back.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong, who said he once believed himself to be invincible, explained in the portion of the interview broadcast Friday night that he started to take steps toward redemption last month. Then, after dozens of questions had already been lobbed his way, he became emotional when he described how he told his 13-year-old son, Luke, that yes, his father had cheated by doping. That talk happened last month over the holidays, Armstrong said as he fought back tears.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“I said, listen, there’s been a lot of questions about your dad, my career, whether I doped or did not dope, and I’ve always denied, I’ve always been ruthless and defiant about that, which is probably why you trusted me, which makes it even sicker,” Armstrong said he told his son, the oldest of his five children. “I want you to know it’s true.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">At times, Winfrey’s interview seemed more like a therapy session than an inquisition, with Armstrong admitting that he was narcissistic and had been in therapy — and that he should be in therapy regularly because his life was so complicated.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In the end, the interview most likely accomplished what Armstrong had hoped: it was the vehicle through which he admitted to the public that he had cheated by doping, which he had lied about for more than a decade. But his answers were just the first step to clawing back his once stellar reputation.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">On Friday, Armstrong appeared more contrite than he had during the part of the interview that was shown Thursday, yet he still insisted that he was clean when he made his comeback to cycling in 2009 after a brief retirement, an assertion the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_states_anti-doping_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about United States Anti-Doping Agency">United States Anti-Doping Agency</a> said was untrue. He also implied that his lifetime ban from all Olympic sports was unfair because some of his former teammates who testified about their doping and the doping on Armstrong’s teams received only six-month bans.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Richard Pound, the founding chairman of WADA and a member of the International Olympic Committee, said he was unmoved by Armstrong’s televised mea culpa.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“If what he’s looking for is some kind of reconstruction of his image, instead of providing entertainment with Oprah Winfrey, he’s got a long way to go,” Pound said Friday from his Montreal office.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong acknowledged to Winfrey during Friday’s broadcast that he has a long way to go before winning back the public’s trust. He said he understood why people recently turned on him because they felt angry and betrayed.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“I lied to you and I’m sorry,” he said before acknowledging that he might have lost many of his supporters for good. “I am committed to spending as long as I have to to make amends, knowing full well that I won’t get very many back.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong also said that the scandal has cost him $75 million in lost sponsors, all of whom abandoned him last fall after Usada made public 1,000 pages of evidence that Armstrong had doped.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“In a way, I just assumed we would get to that point,” he said of his sponsors’ leaving. “The story was getting out of control.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In closing her interview, Winfrey asked Armstrong a question that left him perplexed.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“Will you rise again?” she said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Armstrong said: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know what’s out there.”</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Then, as the interview drew to a close, Armstrong said: “The ultimate crime is the betrayal of these people that supported me and believed in me.”</div></div>

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Some Serious Questions About the New Horror Movie 'Mama'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From:<a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/">http://www.theatlanticwire.com</a><br /><img src="http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2013/01/18/mama07/large.jpg" /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br /><div class="meta vcard" style="color: #7d7d7d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; height: 18px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="autor fn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/authors/richard-lawson/" style="color: #7d7d7d; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: underline;" title="Richard Lawson">RICHARD LAWSON</a></span><span class="pageviews" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/site/divider12.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 11px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: none;">3,698 Views</span><span class="date updated" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/site/divider12.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; float: left; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 11px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">JAN 18, 2013</span></div><div class="content" style="clear: right; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;">Riding the subway back downtown after a screening of the new ghost movie <em style="font-size: 15px;">Mama</em>, my viewing partner and I posed few questions to each other about what we'd just seen. We continued asking these questions even once we were off the subway and comfortably ensconced in a window seat at a snug East Village bar. We had lots of questions, is the point. And so, in lieu of writing a full-on review of this senseless and tediously dumb movie, I'm just going to, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline;">as an homage to Pete Wells</a>, pose some of those questions, put them out into the inter-ether and wait not-very-expectantly for a response. Beware: spoilers abound.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">1.</b> Why is the creepy abandoned cabin in the Virginia woods, where a ruined financier (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who's just killed his business partners and wife takes his two daughters to kill them, decked out in dusty 1970s furniture? I mean, that's fine, cabins got abandoned in the '70s same as any decade, but then what specific connection does the 140-year-old ghost who saves the girls from their daddy have with this relatively contemporary (and, if you cleaned it up, quite lovely) abode? And why does the camera linger on the name of the house, written on a little plaque outside, if the name plays no part in the rest of the movie? Is this all just spooky set-up with no real meaning behind it?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">2.</b> Why does the financier's brother Lucas (also Coster-Waldau) — who spent five years looking for his two nieces before they are discovered, feral and wild, in the cabin — deserve to have custody of the girls over their mother's sister? I get that she's frosty and blonde and Lucas is a hip artist with a rocker grrl wife/girlfriend named Annabel (Jessica Chastain), but beyond that? Why is this barely working guy with a reluctant life partner such a better candidate than this woman of equal relation to the children who can offer them stability and seeming affluence? Are we simply to go along with the movie's early failings in logic and sense-making because we're told to?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">3.</b> Back to those feral children, you're telling me, <em style="font-size: 15px;">Mama</em>, that two little girls running around like animals in a pretty well-situated cabin in Virginia of all places weren't found for <em style="font-size: 15px;">five years</em>? What, did the locals forget that cabin existed? Or did they just think, "Aw heck, those littl'uns probably aren't in that furnished cabin, that'd be crazy"?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">4.</b> Why do Annabel and Lucas so unquestioningly agree to live in the house that the creepy psychiatrist Dr. Dreyfuss (Daniel Kash) offers them? What even is this house? And if it's a science house, meant for observation of patients, where are the cameras? Also what? Do such things even exist? Surely this isn't just some lame excuse to get the characters out of their cramped apartment and into a spooky, dark, drafty home, right?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">5.</b> If one of the two girls, the younger one Lilly (the rather remarkable Isabelle Nélisse), is as feral as she appears to be, would she really be sent to live with relative strangers so quickly? And would the two girls really be left alone with their uncle's girlfriend after the uncle suffers a mysterious accident and is laid up in the hospital? If Dr. Dreyfuss has these kids in an observation house, where's the observation? He stops by like twice in the movie, shouldn't he be there more often?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">6.</b> And when exactly does Dr. Dreyfuss figure out that the girls have brought a ghostly presence with them? When did he have time to write all the stuff that, of course, Annabel eventually finds and reads? Is Dr. Dreyfuss evil? Simply curious about the supernatural? It can't be that he's simply a hollow device used for the dispensing of exposition, can it?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">7.</b> About this ghost: if she has as many powers as she displays in the film's turgid and nonsensical climax, why doesn't she just use her scary ghost abilities on the first night? Or when the girls were at the hospital after they were discovered? What use does a 140-year-old ghost hellbent on one thing have with toying with people? Why all the subtle scares? Why not just fly over there and grab the kids at the first possible moment? Does it seem odd to anyone else that a ghost would be concerned with the plot mechanics of a steadily mounting suspense story?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">8.</b> And hey, once we find out what the ghost's ultimate mission is, where's the explanation for why she didn't just do it five years ago, the day she found the two little ones in the cabin? What was the wait for? Do ghosts just change their minds like that, say "Oh hey, actually I want to do this with you now," after five years together? Is capriciousness a common ghostly trait, or does the movie just invent shit when it wants to because why the hell not?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">9.</b> What exactly are the <em style="font-size: 15px;">rules</em> of this movie? Is the ghost flying to and from the cabin and the science house? Or are those holes in the walls with moths crawling out of them some sort of portal system, like the space tunnels in <em style="font-size: 15px;">Contact</em>? If so, why bother? Seems awfully elaborate for an extremely powerful supernatural being, doesn't it? And why do the two little girls seem to know that Mama will get jealous and go after Annabel and Lucas? Has Mama gone after people in the past? Does that mean that people <em style="font-size: 15px;">did</em>find them in the cabin, but Mama just killed them? If so, why didn't anyone notice that people kept going missing near that cabin? And why didn't Mama kill the two old guys who eventually found the girls and took them away? Was she out on an errand? Where is Mama when she's not around?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">10.</b> What happened to Annabel and Lucas's little dachshund? Why did he just disappear after one or two scenes?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">11.</b> Why does a ghost, possibly the ghost of Lucas's brother but possibly Mama, type "M A M A M A M A M A M A" on a hospital computer before Lucas has a prophetic dream? What's the point of that? Also, why do some current horror movie makers think computers are scary when computers are not scary? And why do some current horror movie makers think that cheap computer animated ghouls are scary when they just look like dumb videogames? Why does Mama move like a stickbug when she is the ghost of a person, not the ghost of a stickbug? If Mama can possess people's bodies, as she does at one point, why didn't she do that to Jessica Chastain way in the beginning of the movie? Why does Mama keep doing arbitrary, poorly designed things that are supposed to look scary? Are these people, including director Andrés Muschietti, simply winging it, making up stuff as they go along? Are people really supposed to pay $13 to see someone pile lame special effects on top of a sorta interesting initial premise and enjoy it?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">12.</b> Is this really the kind of thing that producer Guillermo del Toro wants to attach his name to?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">13.</b> Why does it seem so hard these days for people to make horror movies that actually are well thought-out and have some degree of narrative cohesion? Do people really go in for video game-level special effects arbitrarily thrown at the screen with lazy thoughtlessness? Doesn't it seem odd that the bar has been moved so low? Even in the wake of great ghost movies like <em style="font-size: 15px;">The Others</em> and <em style="font-size: 15px;">The Ring</em>?</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><b style="font-size: 15px;">14.</b> Finally, do we think this stinker will affect Jessica Chastain's Oscar chances?</div></div></div>

Movie 'Mama' Some Serious Questions About the New Horror Movie 'Mama'

From: http://www.theatlanticwire.com RICHARD LAWSON 3,698 Views JAN 18, 2013 Riding the subway back downtown after a screening of the new gh...

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Archipendium's 2013 Calendar: Going, Going, ...

A couple months ago I posted about <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/11/archipendium-calendar.html">Archipendium's 2012 Architecture Calendar</a>. Recently I received the <a href="http://www.archimaps-shop.com/">2013 calendar</a>, which has a similar "bevy of nice buildings."<br /><br /><img alt="archmedium2013.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/archmedium2013.jpg" title="Archipendium's 2013 Calendar" /><br />[image courtesy of archimap publishers] <br /><br />It's not too late to <a href="http://www.archimaps-shop.com/">pick up your 2013 copy</a>.*<br /><br /><img alt="archmedium2013.gif" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/archmedium2013.gif" title="Archipendium's 2013 Calendar" /><br />[images courtesy of archimap publishers | animation by archidose] <br /><br /><b>*Looks like I wrote that too quickly...or should I say not soon enough? Per <a href="http://www.archimaps-shop.com/">Archipendium's website</a>, "the printed edition of our Archipendium architecture 2013 is already sold out. We were overwhelmed by the success of the calendar." Nevertheless, for those digitally minded, a PDF version is available for purchase.)</b>

Archipendium's 2013 Calendar: Going, Going, ...

A couple months ago I posted about Archipendium's 2012 Architecture Calendar . Recently I received the 2013 calendar , which has a simil...

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Matt Said...Jay Said...Um...Let Me Get Back to You on Which Number This Is

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjC4K93nO67B4RH-zEZ-_T4fetFZFnTmTkSLTu2x2GGaoyk_h2e0Ll0DxCD7i5blg69bYCZYywYZxvMGCCa1ad_nKeDqAHctChTmT15Sz2MZMawlA6L4s1DQ_GUgbDY8MjwZlZnYFrYs/s1600/asshole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjC4K93nO67B4RH-zEZ-_T4fetFZFnTmTkSLTu2x2GGaoyk_h2e0Ll0DxCD7i5blg69bYCZYywYZxvMGCCa1ad_nKeDqAHctChTmT15Sz2MZMawlA6L4s1DQ_GUgbDY8MjwZlZnYFrYs/s400/asshole.jpg" width="400" /></a>Matt has the kvorka.  Jay has the kvorka.  You sit spellbound…<br /><br />Matt:  Don’t you know it’s 10 o’clock here?<br />Jay:  You told me to call you.<br />Matt:  I didn’t say call me now.<br />Jay:  Yes, you did.<br />Matt:  I must be drunk.<br />Jay:  Of course you are.<br />Matt:  Eh, you’re probably right; I have no idea anymore.<br /><br />Jay:  Y’know…Since we talked about the assholes of the world this week, we should…<br />Matt:  Talk about how you and I have over the years, been assholes ourselves?<br />Jay:  Exactly.  I mean, I’m sure the moments have been few and far between, but...<br />Matt:  Damn right.  We’re great guys.  Always on the up and up, but sometimes…we falter.<br />Jay:  Or something.<br /><br />Matt:  I remember one night when I went out to eat with a buddy of mine, after dinner, I (listen to find out.)<br />Jay:  Ha….I once (listen to find out) to (listen to find out).<br />Matt:  Oh wow!!<br />Jay:  I know, right!?<br /><br />Matt:  Should I talk about the time I said (listen to find out) about (listen to find out)?<br />Jay:  Totally.  Which reminds me; I once said (listen to find out) to (listen to find out).<br />Matt:  Seriously?<br />Jay:  Oh Hell Yeah.<br />Matt:  Damn, that was pretty ghetto.<br />Jay:  Oh yeah, I got some brutha in me from somewhere, mister.<br /><br />Matt:  Should I mention the time that I hurled (listen to find out) at the (listen to find out) in HS?<br />Jay:  That was pretty mean……so yes, you should.<br />Matt:  Uh-huh…Setting me up to be the bad guy are you?  What about when you (listen to find out.)?<br />Jay:  That’s an internet rumor that I can neither confirm nor deny.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1B3iLbgzaTaZeomYlGPPyW1BV_eKNgQw3YYbuqpfFtgESn2mHFS1_e_BeEN5I-_7updMJWH73lkquYGZsV-73sh-vkxFLw8g0rWX2B4p4ACrRhcWNW7UI3PCMT2D3NGLUluwJJo2T_8g/s1600/TheJerkStore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1B3iLbgzaTaZeomYlGPPyW1BV_eKNgQw3YYbuqpfFtgESn2mHFS1_e_BeEN5I-_7updMJWH73lkquYGZsV-73sh-vkxFLw8g0rWX2B4p4ACrRhcWNW7UI3PCMT2D3NGLUluwJJo2T_8g/s400/TheJerkStore.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br />Matt:  Well, we’ll find out Saturday night at 11 PM ET.<br />Jay:  Damn right.  We’ll do the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/01/20/the-jerk-store" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Jerk Store Show</span></i></a> and call ourselves out on being assholes.<br />Matt:  Can we really fill that up for 45 minutes?<br />Jay:  Ha…You alone could fill up 2 hours of talking about being an asshole.<br />Matt:  That was hurtful.<br />Jay:  I know, but as you said on Twitter…”not untrue.”<br />Matt:  You keep very good records.<br />Jay:  That’s part of being an asshole.<br /><br />Matt:  Word.<br />Jay: (ding)  Oooooooooo, my muffins are done; gotta go!!<br /><br />So…Join Jay and Matt tonight, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/01/20/the-jerk-store" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Saturday January 19th at 11 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio</span></i></a>.  They are outting themselves as assholes…well, to themselves because you already knew that.<br /><br />To listen to all the frivolity LIVE tonight at 11 PM ET click<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/01/20/the-jerk-store" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;"> HERE</span></i></a>, and enjoy being an asshole with Jay and Matt tonight LIVE at 11 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio.</div></div>

Matt Said...Jay Said...Um...Let Me Get Back to You on Which Number This Is

Matt has the kvorka.  Jay has the kvorka.  You sit spellbound… Matt:  Don’t you know it’s 10 o’clock here? Jay:  You told me to call you. Ma...

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A Great Way to Break Ground

Digging through my blog's "pending" folder on my computer, I came across this rendering of the <a href="http://ci.billings.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=1639">Parmly Billings Library</a> in Billings, Montana, designed by <a href="http://www.willbruderarchitects.com/">Will Bruder Architects</a>. The building broke ground last June and is expected to be done the end of this year.<br /><br /><img alt="grid-billings.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/grid-billings.jpg" title="Rendering of Parmly Billings Library" /><br />[Rendering of Parmly Billings Library | image <a href="http://www.willbruderarchitects.com/">source</a>] <br /><br />What drew me to the project was actually the groundbreaking itself, which consisted of about 300 people forming the footprint of the building on site:<br /><br /><img alt="groundbreaking.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/groundbreaking.jpg" title="Groundbreaking for Parmly Billings Library" /><br />[Parmly Billings Library's groundbreaking ceremony | top image <a href="http://billingsgazette.com/people-outline-the-new-library-building/image_2f68bdd2-d880-5611-aedd-20b6536d1009.html">source</a>]<br /><br />I really like the idea of the groundbreaking, because it links people to the physical aspects of the future building, especially its scale. It also prompts people to use their imagination to envision the building as something they'll occupy. I figured this couldn't be the first occasion of such a groundbreaking, and a quick Google image search for "groundbreaking people outline building" did yield a few more:<br /><br /><img alt="people-outline-building.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/people-outline-building.jpg" title="Austin Baptist Church groundbreaking" /><br />[Austin Baptist Church, Austin, Texas | image <a href="http://www.austinbaptistchurch.com/Arena/default.aspx?page=3526">source</a>] <br /><br /><img alt="Groundbreaking-Outline.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Groundbreaking-Outline.jpg" title="Waterbrook Bible Fellowship groundbreaking" /><br />[Waterbrook Bible Fellowship, Denton, Texas | image <a href="http://www.dentonslive.com/waterbrook-groundbreaking-hallelujah-hot/">source</a>] <br /><br /><img alt="GroundbreakingSmall.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/GroundbreakingSmall.jpg" title="Heidelberg University Residence Life and Learning Hall groundbreaking" /><br />[Heidelberg University Residence Life and Learning Hall, Tiffin, Ohio | image <a href="http://www.heidelberg.edu/offices/president/plan/newreshall/groundbreaking">source</a>]

A Great Way to Break Ground

Digging through my blog's "pending" folder on my computer, I came across this rendering of the Parmly Billings Library in Bil...

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It's Friday Steak night @LPA

<p>Fillet steak with sweet potato wedges and an ice berg lettuce wedge salad with blue cheese dressing. Steak was cooked rare and was delicious!</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8RntbN-dTSwY5yYupAqtRQuh2Kx_r95hm1AKx-K5FbJs8hy16EvM-bR3cJqJ3zjnnZYcqLi7ewaHYM9s6gTO6MUOiqA4_sGEjeJmWbIUn_RPiDlptYB9uXL0lLN2lK-avMOs29aGoHot/s1600/20130118_211156.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8RntbN-dTSwY5yYupAqtRQuh2Kx_r95hm1AKx-K5FbJs8hy16EvM-bR3cJqJ3zjnnZYcqLi7ewaHYM9s6gTO6MUOiqA4_sGEjeJmWbIUn_RPiDlptYB9uXL0lLN2lK-avMOs29aGoHot/s400/20130118_211156.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFktdg1KD4aLVimWP49MoLJDIsFGeCDDhuNOeEltEhTzw-tQ7b2_TfLsKFqs_YbR751TN9gIzGba-mVhb4dcEMG-nPMJoDEEKOcGQRKz7yfKEu-80Y7b1zD_BcXV0s-hInoqdja1BedCe4/s1600/20130118_210854.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFktdg1KD4aLVimWP49MoLJDIsFGeCDDhuNOeEltEhTzw-tQ7b2_TfLsKFqs_YbR751TN9gIzGba-mVhb4dcEMG-nPMJoDEEKOcGQRKz7yfKEu-80Y7b1zD_BcXV0s-hInoqdja1BedCe4/s400/20130118_210854.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnS82RKw8mSvWUquomRpoxeqos7hMMUS5d4HImMPzjFTcFs6ZvPPTtMuejlvPcjtOgChSydA3IoN1pXKiUlvDQAsLDEzaQ6Uh1VbnG_LRpVfZuZk_O5R-QCzebOE-q6Hji7bopMEdeueW5/s1600/20130118_210651.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnS82RKw8mSvWUquomRpoxeqos7hMMUS5d4HImMPzjFTcFs6ZvPPTtMuejlvPcjtOgChSydA3IoN1pXKiUlvDQAsLDEzaQ6Uh1VbnG_LRpVfZuZk_O5R-QCzebOE-q6Hji7bopMEdeueW5/s400/20130118_210651.jpg" /> </a> </div>

It's Friday Steak night @LPA

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Half Dose #111: Papillon

<i>The following text and photographs are courtesy <a href="http://www.halingberg.com/">Hal Ingberg Architecte</a> for the Pappilon installation at Les YMCA du Quebec in Montreal, completed in 2012.</i> <br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111a.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Context</b><br /><i>Papillon</i> (or butterfly in English) is a permanent installation. It is suspended from a concrete block wall that gives onto a substantial parking lot belonging to the new YMCA in the Montreal borough of Cartierville. It was carried out within the framework of the Quebec government "Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture." The building was designed by the Montreal architects <a href="http://www.daoustlestage.com/">Daoust Lestage</a>.<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111b.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Parking</b><br />The sizable expanse of this tract and the prosaic activity that takes place within it required a spatial gesture that could somehow assert presence and contest set notions of where and how to look at art.<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111c.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Mirroring and Stripes</b><br />Towards this end, the work reflects its ever-changing context, by making use of glass panels comprising a delicate filigree of transparent and mirrored stripes.<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111d.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Tilting</b><br />The glass panels are tilted downward so that viewers may see themselves and their context reflected in the glass from up close and at a distance. And so people, cars, color, etc. become performers in, and therefore fundamental components of the work.<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111e.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Welcome</b><br />The length of the long glass wall also folds inwards at its center, thus introducing a welcoming gesture that further gathers people and setting into the piece. Importantly, the fold also generates complex effects of reflection upon reflection. <br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111f.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Evening</b><br />The work is lit in the evening by the ambient light provided by preexisting lamp standards. It is also lit and transformed by intermittent flashes of blinking light originating from vehicular head lights.<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111g.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Unpredictability</b><br /><b></b><i>Papillon</i> proposes a formally simple yet visually complex experience that is particularly sensitive to a public setting not normally associated with art. Due to changing conditions of natural and artificial light, the shifting of the clouds, rain and snow, as well as the movement of cars and people, the work transforms itself throughout the day, evenings and seasons. This unpredictability creates a richness of experience that is best understood via one’s movement through space in "real time."<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111h.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Collaborators</b><br />Damien Heitz, Marco Joubert, Sébastien Riendeau, Elliot Sturtevant, Hal Ingberg<br /><br /><img alt="HD111.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/HD111i.jpg" title="Photo courtesy of Hal Ingberg Architecte" /><br /><br /><b>Structural Engineers</b><br />Luc Dumais of Dessau and Benoît Cloutier of CPA Verre structurel Inc.

Half Dose #111: Papillon

The following text and photographs are courtesy Hal Ingberg Architecte for the Pappilon installation at Les YMCA du Quebec in Montreal, com...

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Pressies for Bones

<p>When we were in Key West we picked up a few presents for Bones.  One of them was a new leash and matching collar.  Look at his collar, it is a Key West one.  It's really nice, lovely, bright and cheery. He looks so stylish wearing it!</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8R0euVe5egiCp-7sMcZi-MAHlvXL-W2jonOHfu5cgUk-6Hww5l2YySvigakqX5yA1FuknHhT8kjt-0xlHghryPhizMB1PkCvkY4fhV6AmzYttkdXCEIBAb_3FVBuAucJpauUUIPF2KEb/s1600/20130118_192121.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-8R0euVe5egiCp-7sMcZi-MAHlvXL-W2jonOHfu5cgUk-6Hww5l2YySvigakqX5yA1FuknHhT8kjt-0xlHghryPhizMB1PkCvkY4fhV6AmzYttkdXCEIBAb_3FVBuAucJpauUUIPF2KEb/s400/20130118_192121.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5YnfNluhqW_JCQMTE5M-EAnyFscv-8Wyd4uY9IBum3yrZqlY8iYLRcwAknrRqhfVzFEfn7QQ8_hPpypvXkKaFdQOef9QcidAC-WXS4w_yvDLNNFNFzs2_K6G9JyjkptOYG7753TM8DNQm/s1600/20130118_192056.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5YnfNluhqW_JCQMTE5M-EAnyFscv-8Wyd4uY9IBum3yrZqlY8iYLRcwAknrRqhfVzFEfn7QQ8_hPpypvXkKaFdQOef9QcidAC-WXS4w_yvDLNNFNFzs2_K6G9JyjkptOYG7753TM8DNQm/s400/20130118_192056.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinecJcV_u-9QaPTSQ3Sw4A8yIaf_A34rAInWWbQMp6Zr_9ic4U7xJuEWjpsTG1UO-F2BBt8tzgYYp60OVg5eO3MikHh_IgYtrTy5ZNM0rVsZVi7CTFR17E-Z0LMx4lWdOOKp5AwLoQyz0w/s1600/20130118_185756.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinecJcV_u-9QaPTSQ3Sw4A8yIaf_A34rAInWWbQMp6Zr_9ic4U7xJuEWjpsTG1UO-F2BBt8tzgYYp60OVg5eO3MikHh_IgYtrTy5ZNM0rVsZVi7CTFR17E-Z0LMx4lWdOOKp5AwLoQyz0w/s400/20130118_185756.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Pressies for Bones

When we were in Key West we picked up a few presents for Bones.  One of them was a new leash and matching collar.  Look at his collar, it is...

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Dark and bitter

<p>I have always loved really dark  bitter chocolate.  As you know I am on a bit of health kick at the moment.  When I get the urge to eat chocolate I nibble on little bit of rich dark chocolate (Green & Black's is particularly good). It has really helped me kick my Ben & Jerry's ice cream habit!</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPXPBbrrG-afLy2NQTiwxPJKFKipilSwpQzR8jiWA7aunXAnAam0_geFBcqQ01JXHZeW0-RanZu1O5xkSHj84enN8KUiM8SDAtFjMc9FfBkZ0zkrHwEeBLe7L8X-AlmN8LcQ8ekzkzNSh/s1600/20130118_173636.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPXPBbrrG-afLy2NQTiwxPJKFKipilSwpQzR8jiWA7aunXAnAam0_geFBcqQ01JXHZeW0-RanZu1O5xkSHj84enN8KUiM8SDAtFjMc9FfBkZ0zkrHwEeBLe7L8X-AlmN8LcQ8ekzkzNSh/s400/20130118_173636.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Dark and bitter

I have always loved really dark  bitter chocolate.  As you know I am on a bit of health kick at the moment.  When I get the urge to eat choc...

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Hair Loss Breakthrough

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Lance Armstrong to Oprah: Story was 'one big lie'

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oZ2BIff9kbs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div class="asset-metabar-wrap" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px 23px 70px;"><div class="asset-metabar" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: table-cell; margin: 20px 0px 0px; width: 888px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY Sports</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); 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cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="armstrong.jpb" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/17/ap-armstrong-oprah-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: George Burns, AP)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Cyclist admits to Oprah he used performance-enhancing drugs during all seven Tour de France wins</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Armstrong says his 'cocktail' was comprised of EPO, re-infusing his own boosted blood, and testosterone</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">He disputes he resumed doping after his comeback, says last time 'he crossed the line' was in 2005</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Saying his "mythic, perfect story" was "one big lie," Lance Armstrong admitted that he cheated during most of his famed cycling career and that he bullied people who dared to tell the truth about it.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">After denying doping allegations for more than a decade, he also said he used banned drugs or blood transfusions during all seven of his victories in the Tour de France.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people," Armstrong told talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview that aired Thursday night.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><b>LANCE: </b>"I was trying to win at all costs"</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Armstrong, 41, said he started taking performance-enhancing drugs in the mid-1990s and that his "cocktail" of choice was banned testosterone, EPO and blood transfusions using his own boosted blood.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He disputed that he doped during his comeback in 2009 and 2010, saying the last time he "crossed the line" with banned substances was in 2005, his last victory in the Tour de France.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But he still said his comeback in 2009 might have doomed him because it gave anti-doping officials a chance to build the case against him. He said the comeback "didn't sit well" with teammate Floyd Landis, who accused Armstrong of doping in 2010.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"We wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't come back," he said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Instead of telling the truth about his cheating, Armstrong said he kept covering it up because he got swept up in the "momentum" of his own legend. He was the cancer survivor turned superhero, the squeaky clean rider waving the American flag in victory.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It just gets going, and I lost myself in all that," Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He also said he didn't think he could compete if he didn't turn to doping because doping was so pervasive in cycling. "I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture," Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The 90-minute broadcast was taped Monday in Austin, Texas, Armstrong's hometown. A second portion of the interview will air Friday night.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">It marked the cyclist's first extended public comments since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released more than 1,000 pages of doping evidence against him October. The evidence included sworn statements from former teammates and friends who detailed how and when he used performance-enhancing drugs.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Armstrong said he rationalized his use of testosterone because one of his testicles was removed in his fight against cancer. "I thought, 'Surely, I'm running low (on testosterone),'" Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He also admitted to mistreating people as he tried to preserve the cover-up.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Yeah, I was a bully," Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Not only did he attack those who told the truth about him, he sued them when they did. At one point, when Winfrey asked him if he had sued Emma O'Reilly, a former team masseuse who told of his doping, Armstrong wasn't sure. "To be honest, Oprah, we sued so many people," he said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He called his behavior "inexcusable" and described himself as "a guy who expected to get whatever he wanted and to control every outcome."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">To make amends, he said he has reached out to those he attacked for telling the truth about him, including O'Reilly and Betsy Andreu, the wife of former cyclist Frankie Andreu. He said he spoke with both Andreus in a 40-minute phone call recently but did not make peace with them.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"No, because they've been hurt too badly," Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He denied pressuring other cyclists into doping, contrary to their testimony in the USADA case. But he acknowledged he has a credibility problem after defiantly lying about his doping for so long.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I'm not the most believable guy in the world right now. I understand."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He even said he thought he could get away with it last year after the federal government dropped a criminal investigation into whether he committed fraud through his doping scheme. The case was dropped without explanation.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I thought I was out of the woods," Armstrong said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But USADA continued to investigate and offered him the opportunity to cooperate. In response, Armstrong said he could not resist his tendency to defend his turf, no matter what. He turned USADA down and fought back, suing the agency in an effort to challenge its jurisdiction – a lawsuit that eventually was thrown out of court.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I'd do anything to go back to that day," Armstrong said of the day USADA gave him the opportunity to come clean. "Because I wouldn't fight, I wouldn't sue them."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">USADA banned him for life from sanctioned events and stripped him of his seven titles in the Tour de France. By coming clean, Armstrong hopes to reduce that ban and compete again - a goal that will require much more than talking to Oprah. Anti-doping officials have made clear that he will have to cough up more details under oath.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">After the broadcast, USADA said in a statement, "Tonight, Lance Armstrong finally acknowledged that his cycling career was built on a powerful combination of doping and deceit. His admission that he doped throughout his career is a small step in the right direction. But if he is sincere in his desire to correct his past mistakes, he will testify under oath about the full extent of his doping activities."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Livestrong, the cancer-fighting charity Armstrong founded 15 years ago, said in a statement it was "disappointed by the news that Lance Armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Armstrong stepped down from Livestrong's board in November, saying he did not want his troubles to reflect on the charity.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Livestrong statement noted he had apologized to the charity's staff earlier this week, "and we accepted his apology in order to move on and chart a strong, independent course. We look forward to devoting our full energy to our mission of helping people not only fight and survive cancer, but also thrive in life after cancer.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Even in the wake of our disappointment, we also express our gratitude to Lance as a survivor for the drive, devotion and spirit he brought to serving cancer patients and the entire cancer community."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In a preview of Friday's part two of the interview, Armstrong described the day in October when all of his sponsors dropped him after USADA's evidence was released to the public. Referring to his loss in income, he called it a "$75 million day."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">On his mother's reaction to his admission, he said, "She's a wreck."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This is too late," Armstrong said of his confession. "It's too late for probably most people, and that's my fault."</div></div>

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Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY Sports 8a.m. EST January 18, 2013 (Photo: George Burns, AP) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Cyclist admits to Oprah he used p...

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