The Pig: Remember those Danish cartoons that enflamed the Muslim world? That's obviously the inspiration for this lightly comic parable about an elderly Danish man who goes into the hospital for treatment of a rectal abscess. He's concerned, as we all would be, but he's able to draw comfort from a painting on the wall of his hospital room. It's of a pig gracefully diving off a dock, the smile of the pig's face not unlike that of the Mona Lisa, he feels. Unfortunately, the man he's sharing the room with is Muslim, and Muslims object to paintings of pigs, apparently. What follows is both humorous and serious, intolerance slowly giving way to.. .well, it's hard to say what it gives way to, but at least there's a dialogue. Presto: Many of you will have seen this computer-generated film from...
... methods which DEA has frequently encountered in other internet prescribing schemes and the smal... Government's citation to its post- hearing brief does not comply with this requirement, which DEA h...
O-o-o K, lefs get right to it, then: Ih the book, he tells how he carne to support the invasion of Iraq, a case I'd summarized as "[Saddam Hussein] was murderous, crazy and capable of anything, including doing business with al-Qaida and the rest of the lunatic Islamic fundamentalists who are America's sworn enemies. This struck me, as did his book, as a cartoon of the opposition to invading Iraq, which was broad enough to include many who supported the American involvements in the Balkans and, for that matter, the first Gulf War with Iraq. [Christopher Hitchens] rightly argued that Saddam's dictatorship was on the verge of collapse before the 2003 invasion; "a ruined, a traumatized, a maimed Iraq" was inevitable. "Ifs a pity it was allowed to limp and drag on (after the '91 war)," he s...
If we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. One thing undoubtedly true in this reasoning is this: that while we are alive we cannot get to a star, anymore than when we are dead we can take the train. -- Vincent van Gogh When local artist Sarah McCarty and Argos Etchings and Paintings gallery director Eric Thomson, co-executors of Melinda Miles' estate, began examining the late artist's work in preparation for a retrospective exhibition, they kept coming across a particular image over and over: a bend in a receding set of train tracks. They encountered it in many forms -- as a drawing, as a painting, and even as a photograph in a slide viewer. The image, which appears in a painting called Curve in the Tracks, is representative of the last series ...
He didn't call them that, of course. He didn't call them anything, if he could avoid it Remember, the Victorians used to refer to underwear as "unmentionables" they that shall not be named. But Calvin Klein, as I mentioned, changed all that He put the "homo" back in "homoerotic." He also put the "hetero" back in "homoerotic." Discerning straight men, scon to be known as metrosexuals, embraced designer labels, and the rest is history. I won't go into the Boxer Rebellion of the '90s, since Tve never liked boxers, which do a funky-bunch number when you're pulling your jeans on. But that whole "Boxers or Briefs" smackdown now seems to be a thing of the past Guys don't tend to wear boxers these days, or briefs. They wear boxer briefs.
It's not that I don't want [Patricia] to find her soul mate, however I don't picture these two together. Then came her call that broke me down. "Nikki, be honest with me. Am I the type of woman who's better off alone? I call [Kenneth], who says he's still recovering from his teeth extraction, but he'd love to get together the following weekend. We finally all meet at E&O in Larkspur, where she's across from me and he's to my left. I expect him to order soup and a mild entrée, but instead, he gets a spicy dish. I caution him about the chilies and he looks confused. "Oh, right. My mouth feels better now." Oh for God's sake, Nikki, leave the man alone," Patricia interrupts. "He's had a facelift."
Phyllis Blaum NEW HOLLAND - Phyllis Jeanne Blaum, 78, New Holland, died at 10:10 p.m. Wednesday (May 16, 2012) at Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, after a brief encounter with pulmonary fibrosis.
That's the question College of Marin sociology instructor Stephen Melsh faced 30 years ago this week when Sun writer Lewis Stewart interrogated him over the brouhaha surrounding Melsh's "Intimate Lifestyles" course-a course which, critics charged, involved unnecessarily intimate sex questions, the viewing of pornographic films and mandatory parties where "pot smoking took place" and "Melsh disported himself clad only in Jockey shorts." Just prior to his Sun interview, Melsh had handed in his resignation after six years at the college. It had been a bad year in general for the 33-year-old instructor. He'd recently "bombed out" (as the Sun put it) in his 1976 quest for a seat on the County Board of Supervisors. Reflecting on his failed campaign, Melsh chalked the loss up to not being "int...
Patrick Somerville's first book, "Trouble," was a collection of short stories. By length alone his first novel, "The Cradle," seems little more than a oversized short story. At 200 pages, it is dwarfed by SUV-sized novels that dominate contemporary fiction. The relative brevity of "The Cradle" does not limit the scope of its story.
Guy-watching on the beach may soon get interesting. The direction in men's swimsuits is short and snug. Some reports date the look to Daniel Craig, thoughtfully clad in short trunks, as he emerged from the surf in the 2006 James Bond film "Casino Royale." Style pace-setter David Beckham created a stir last year wearing several tight swim briefs while on designer Roberto Cavalli's yacht.
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