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Genie in a Bottle
You know the old Arabic Genie in a Bottle story: a fisherman finds a washed-up bottle on the beach, opens it, and out pops a huge cloud-like genie (a djinn). The genie tells the fisherman that it’s so...
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Whitney Houston – Xanax?
You probably didn’t miss the news that last Saturday, singer Whitney Houston was found dead in her Los Angeles hotel suite. Autopsy results will take several weeks, but as the first details trickle in,...
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The Shame of Richard Manuel
This post will not cheer you up. I’m sorry for that. But I felt I had to write it today. 26 years ago, March 4th 1986, Richard Manuel hung himself in his Florida hotel room. He was 42. As a pianist,...
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Generic Whiskey
• tip: Stupidity can be more dangerous than depression. Author: Henk van Setten Tagged: alcohol, antidepressants, depression, joke, lame joke, medication, pills, sigmund freud
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In Memoriam: Jason Molina
I want to commemorate Jason Molina, who after years of struggling with alcoholism and illness died last week (March 16th, 2013) from what was described as “organ failure owing to alcohol consumption”....
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