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By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012, at 4:15 pm
Tomorrow’s Purim, by most accounts, a special celebration of a time when the Jewish population of Persia were delivered from extermination. Purim means “lots” as in lottery; the day the Jews were to be massacred was chosen by chance using lots. The fellow who perpetrated this attempt, Haman, was ultimately executed by the king of […]
By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011, at 10:00 pm
A great writing effort is only sustained by great snacks. I read that somewhere, and it sounded so much like wisdom that I remembered it. (I think it was snacks. Pretty sure.) Fortunately, there are a lot of good ones out there. Elsewise we’d be running short of great fiction any day.
And if the […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011, at 5:06 pm
Dinosaurs don’t write. At least not great fiction. Except one, that is. Me.
Well, perhaps I’m fudging a bit on the “great” but not on the dinosaur part. Yes, it’s that time of year again; National Novel Writing Month is off and running! Unfortunately with this head cold, it’s running off without me. The bloody […]
By Chile Doctor, on Friday, September 30th, 2011, at 5:00 am
This entry is part of a series, Follies 2011»
Arch West led the Frito-Lay team that invented the Dorito (first sold in 1964), a snack that’s now sold worldwide with annual sales in the billions of dollars. This brand of chips has had its ups and downs, with sales falling so badly in recent […]
By Chile Doctor, on Friday, June 10th, 2011, at 6:30 am
This entry is part of a series, Follies 2011»
Right after we were married I fixed our transportation problem by buying Paula Jo a minivan. It was an underpowered box, but it sure was cool to us back then! Our first day we took it out camping. Loaded up the gear and headed to […]
By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011, at 11:15 pm
I’m hungry.
Two days ago I had to give up snacks. Oh, I ate well for meals, since I could have steak and such. But no high-fiber anything. Yesterday things went downhill a bit more. And today, nothing but water. All Day Long.
Until this evening, when things took a major turn for the worse. A […]
By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011, at 6:45 am
My father-in-law recently had a birthday. To help him drown his sorrows celebrate, I made him some of Alton Brown’s world-famous Firecrackers. They didn’t last long, as expected. He never told me if they cured his depression made his day, but the way they disappeared…
Since I was messing up the kitchen anyway, I went […]
By Chile Doctor, on Friday, April 29th, 2011, at 7:00 pm
This entry is part of a series, Follies 2011»
This fellow isn’t trying a new method of traveling incognito. Nor is he a space alien. (At least not according to the Men in Black.) Instead, this is Professor Takuji Naumi, making a point. Using his new invention, the Meta Cookie.
What’s his point? Well, first […]
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