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				A famous author and an inspired writer meet at a coffee shop, both looking for inspiration. The patrons there don’t know if this meeting is by accident or design, but they are in awe of Fame. 
					
				 
				
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				All that was missing from this festival of the brain dead was Barney the goddamn dinosaur.  
					
				 
				
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				"Bortne! Bortne! Shushort!" she exclaims, shooting her hands over her wobbly head in pleasure, causing it to again pop off. This time, it's a three story drop from a balcony.
Terrified, he yells "Sneeeeew nuuuu! Oh nee padoooo!"
 
					
				 
				
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30 5 2 
      
			 
			
			
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				“One cup is fine, two, but 30 cups a day? That’s three pots. That’s pathological,” they say to each other. 
					
				 
				
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				So I shot him.  Right in the bollocks, though I doubt he felt it.  I’m always open to being wrong, though. 
					
				 
				
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				On Day 1122 at 4:14 AM the door which has remained since installation firmly glued to the masonry behind opens and a man emerges blinking shielding his eyes against fine stinging snow.  
					
				 
				
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				Bo ruled the city by suggesting new scent formulas in a booming croak of a voice that shook the earth for acres around, yet as a result everybody on the block smelled like fairy breath. Or, on his BAD BREATH DAYS all of the people reeked of rotted sushi f 
					
				 
				
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				His note said: “I’m sick of low attendance.” 
					
				 
				
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				I wasn’t happy. I was a nurse, not a pill pusher.
What was the big idea? 
					
				 
				
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				Do you see the hot coals of doing? The way time sizzles or wilts…eat those coals. 
					
				 
				
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				Behind them all, in the background, a tray of vodka tonics waits on a glass table, the limes losing color as they drown. 
					
				 
				
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				On an overcast and humid day in August, Jesus—with Dad’s permission, of course—decided to make his grand return. 
					
				 
				
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				Belief is a hammer, like saying the mind is a piece of iron. 
					
				 
				
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				Bridges.  Best reason I can think of to invest in contact lenses, and resign myself to sticking clear discs to my eyeballs every morning.
Part of me knew this day would come.
 
					
				 
				
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				He slurps his Big Gulp. Scratches his ballooning belly.  
					
				 
				
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