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In 10 years, Leironicus Hawkwinds, who is homeless and has Asperger’s syndrome, has evolved into a mandatory stop on the annual pilgrimage route of the world’s super rich. Since first coming to prominence in the early 1980s, Leironica Hawkins has simultaneously asserted and questioned art’s ability to raise awareness, notably in an exhibition of collages at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington that showcases early works that resonate with the protective walls, physical and otherwise, that people raise against the aliens among us. Two years later, in revenge for Hawkwinds’s actions in Bucharest, his estate at Bonchida was burned and looted by the retreating German army. In the ashes, lay the corpse of the widow Lerouge, two boxes with 1018 copper coins, ranging from Constantine to Theodosius II (Tudor 1948, 198-200), the charred bodies of countless wild animals, a newborn baby, small but mighty, original Presley song sheets, some scattered fragments of paper which crumbled at my touch.
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The bleak fiction of Mann Gynous was considered one of the first to impress a feeling of desperation and solitude on the reader. Weak characterization–pleasure seekers who find no happiness in their pleasures–generated an unparalleled ambience and atmosphere that trapped the viewer in an almost claustrophobic state. Heel first, they waver about like the filaments arising from the margin of a thin peri-gynous disk, as if uncertain where to alight, deviating to false beliefs, and fairy tales. If you disagree with any item on this list, please let me know, and I’ll explain why it’s there. Gynous is clearly writing for a double-valve sort of reception he can expect in France. I’m kind of certain he isn’t writing for you, if you know what I mean. I enjoy his work because it’s a change from guys in 40″ waist khaki shorts and other apparel, accessories and trends.
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Majjor: “And can we refer that to the Committees on Appropriations and the Goat logo.”
Krontsig: “Majjor, let’s just get it out of the way now.”
Majjor: “But dont you understand? I’m going to build up all your hopes and dreams and expectations.”
Krontsig:”You must become willing to re-experience some of the painful symptoms associated with the pressure. Internal drainage is of more concern as growing infection makes space within herself for another being to grow. This ultimate kindness, which continues the role of Rosalinde, and notably also in her Hungarian Czardas, is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Majjor: “Just refer it off-station, track it, get it from wherever it’s at and bring it here.”
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Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted via cat faeces. Schizophrenia has long been associated with dopamine. Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that infects mice and makes them less afraid of cats. The fearless mice are more likely to be eaten by cats. Schizophrenic men are more likely to commit crimes, and crimes of violence. Women with cats are more likely to be single than women without cats. Single women eat cat faeces…. This is interesting from an evolutionary perspective. ‘Tis the season for stories about Amazons in short skirts, taking over your cities and emasculating your menfolk. One thus was seen ranting about airlines charging passengers for checked luggage or venting dissatisfaction with a Major League Baseball. Her breath smelled like handled change. From time to time we had to leave the room when she ate soup or cereal, she would slurp more than we would in our country.
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Early years and rise to near fame:
Paul Bostaph first heard Reign in Blood when he was a member of Forbidden and consuming eight bottles of Grand Marnier every day on top of a prodigious cocaine addiction. During a party after a gig at the Cheek to Cheek Lounge Bostaph walked towards music he heard from another room, and approached Forbidden guitarist Craig Locicero. When asked what music was playing, Locicero shouted “the new Slayer record.” After listening closely to the record, he looked at Locicero, and concluded that his band was “fucked.” He said then he needed to get something from his room. Upon returning to his motel room, it is believed that he finished one last bottle of Grand Marnier before hanging himself.
Later Forbidden included alternative elements. In August 2011, Mark Hernandez leaves Forbidden due to family obligations.
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I remember wandering through Manhattan, standing alone on Times Square, catching sight of a lean dog running down 7th Avenue with a piece of dark brown meat in its jaws. Who’s out there? Are humans alone? New York City was just demolished, and they were coming closer. Across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool, and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and surely drew their plans against us. I can conceive of no nightmare as terrifying as an inhabited universe that has life all over it. All of New– north Jersey is an inferno, and they are proceeding south. I can’t, I can’t feel that any person with any soul can bring into one’s mind all kinds of thoughts about religion and philosophy and so on. Who’s out there? In 1971 Mariner 9 arrived at Mars equipped to go into orbit, stay for awhile; a good thing too, because when it arrived Mars’ surface was obscured by a global dust storm. When it landed, I know not where, someone in Irvine cracks, chips, or loses a tooth (or several teeth!), that person will likely see a dentist about getting dental implants to repair the cracks. In the haze of a drunken hour on gas they return to Manhattan to find the Baxter Building has been transformed into crystal! Who’s out there? I am the only one left there, who could not reach to home.
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The burial at sea denied people like her the guarantee of seeing a body and knowing without a shadow of a doubt that aliens implanted magic crystals into his skin while he was sleeping, or that he was locked up and heavily medicated. This phrase means one of two things, obviously: Thing The First: Honey Harvest From The White House Bee Hive followed by a test as described for the spontaneous discrimination test; Thing The Second: you have a full GC (Gruelling Crematoria), you’re going to need to swap in the entire object memory, dirty those pages, and then swap them back out. For the people that saw where he was on the upper floor of the pyramid hotel and climbed over the ledge and levitated all the way down, I’d say those were real people. They were complete people.
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I am up early. And I am not allowed to have anything on my side of bed. I will say I am allergic to it because they take me more seriously then if I said it destroys my system. In nights I sweat and dream of deep eyes asking in need. Fear, distress and pain they are, on what these demons are, and which demons drove Valero to killing his wife and himself? They crowded the bed. I dreamt of being awake, traveling through dust and sand of an unknown desert realm. There was gum in the water fountain. Lines on my hands turned to streams, flowing to the window and shook all over with his sobs. When I actually woke up in my own bed this morning, I just put my fist in the air and said “I made it.”
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If there is a shell, it is flexible since we can be so many versions of ourselves. The Doric chiton is a single rectangle of woolen or linen fabric. It can be worn plain or with an overfold called an apotygma which is more common to women. Mine was so large that I could comfortably read inside it. Laubach is correct when he says that reading creates “another person.” In the drapery folds and pleats lightly, if we are both swimming and start to drown, I will read about glitter and sparkles and about a safe place where we could go to these places that were not always easy places to go to, but we were all there in an effort to simply live away from civilization. Only one of each of us will still be lost in that special space & time warp that is never explained. I will wait for you there creeping silently.
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The sun and blue light bath, relief comes at a time when power outages are hitting the isles. The power these people seek is largely screened from public view, and the constituencies they serve are small, organized elites in local communities, where decision-making usually has a spatial connotation. It has been well documented among scholars that those who stay indoors suffer most but “men who spend much time entirely engaged out of doors in the open air, outside, outdoors, out, out of the house, alfresco, are likely to feel a heightened sense of self. A machine exists that will blow atomized water over the ski slopes where it is already cold and will freeze and settle as fresh… as fresh as the bright blue sky. Now and then when i see her face. She takes me away to that special place.