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Guardian Erototoxins

By alex | Published: 7/28/2005
The Guardian had a silly article on Judith Reisman’s arguments that porn produces “erototoxins” and should be regulated as a dangerous drug. Today they printed a short note I wrote in response: Mark Pilkington (Far out, July 14) writes that Judith Reisman is concerned about “an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin […]
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Alphabetic tunes

By alex | Published: 6/8/2005
OK, too many of these silly meme things, but I needed a short break before my brain pickles. I like this more than the earlier “top 5” list (especially since it requires no thought). The idea is to put all your songs in current rotation in alphabetic order, by song title, and take the first […]
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Passing the Musical Baton

By alex | Published: 5/19/2005
Uh, oh, Kevin has passed me his musical baton (note the amazing restraint: nary a mention of “rythm sticks”). So here we go: Total volume of music files on my computer: 15Gb (16,109,333,271 bytes) in mp3s on this computer but some of those may be audiobook files. The last CD I bought was: CDs? Were […]
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Prom

By alex | Published: 4/17/2005
Jamie and I went to the Barristers’ Ball last night. An excuse to see Buffalonians dress up a bit, and a chance to see one of the ballrooms at the Statler Towers, complete with wide marble floors and original deco lamps. Pretty fun, even if they ditched the Sinatra for Sir Mix-a-Lot a little prematurely […]
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