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The sheer, blue forces of summer
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 10, 2012 A slight but dazzling male blue butterfly, Lycaiedes melissa (Melissa Blue), enjoying the golden afternoon sunlight, inadvertently careers into the flesh of a human female’s cheekbone. Although the woman weighs approximately 18 million times (yes) the weight of the insect, she is knocked over. It is allegedly not…
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Ridiculously full vs. sublimely hungry
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 20, 2012 I am on the S44 bus on Staten Island heading deep into the heart of the landfill borough to sample pizza from Denino’s, another contender in the knock-down, drag-out pizza vs pizza heavyweight championship of my personal world. It’s four-ish, the bus is packed and making stops every…
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Shoulder season euphoria
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, April 8, 2012 Off-season, thank god. Seriously, what if we lived in the real world and didn’t have a bunch of weeks of unpaid leave, and had to just keep going to our jobs and doing tasks and problem solving day-in day-out 52 weeks a year excluding a few chintzy days…
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Gingermane (reflections of a semi-tough cookie)
Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 26, 2012 [This interview follows a guided gingerbread “man” meditation from several weeks ago.] MCW: So, here we are. Thanks for agreeing to speak with me. Gingerbread Being: You can pick me up, gently, so I can see you and so we can talk. And you shouldn’t make this sound…


