| vietnam | 
| The Ugly American     In China, near the ousted sanctuaries  of black Beijing, streets too slippery  to safely streetwalk on, my French stepsister  sleeps with a rich Chinamen. She's not ... Posted by  on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:00:00 GMT
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| nyc | 
| A Few Facts About Working        The music was typical Chinese inner  weather, but my heavy head made leaving  redundant. Nothing was right.  I had done all I could at my job.  Cloni... Posted by  on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:57:00 GMT
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| lady godiva | 
| Hotel Godiva     This is the store to buy the strange  and the old and their hopeless kin:  dead schoolgirls' sweaters, shoes rejected  by Elvis, miniature porcelain fish  angrily carved, held al... Posted by  on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:51:00 GMT
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| paintings | 
| some paintingsi want to thank the doctors for their invaluable pharmaceutical contributions to the execution of these abhorrent wastes of timehttp://michaelbaker.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_
al... Posted by  on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:48:00 GMT
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| for mike | 
| Crossing Bridges     For Mike O'Neill, Rocker, 1965-2006        I too have thought of jumping.  The cooling breezes, the lack  Of taxmen, the subtle shifts in sound.  I thought better o... Posted by  on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:32:00 GMT
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| love, american style | 
| It and Thou        For MBW           At first, the world swung into view  Slowly: the carefully-chosen Côte Rôtie,  Rothko's deep rapture art, nights  Of pool at the H... Posted by  on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:31:00 GMT
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| halloween | 
| Tuesdays in New Jersey        Halloween, and I watch my son, intrepid Superman,  trip over his cape, walking around Union City with his class  of four year olds. They hang tightly to... Posted by  on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT
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| david ackles | 
| The Golden Horse Is In Hell  David Ackles' Theater of Melancholyby Michael Baker(May 2006)     To be born is to be wrecked on an island. J.M.Barrie, in a review of Coral Island      Causes  A fellow t... Posted by  on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:28:00 GMT
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| ray | 
| The Kinks Face To Face with 1966: Where Have All the Good Times Gone?  by Michael Baker(April 2004)    I. Sense and Non-Sense            "Hold itthat don't move me; let's get real real gone for a cha... Posted by  on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:37:00 GMT
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| ugh | 
| Parading Paranoids     I.           
          
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