flotsam and jetsam Vox 2009-12-04T18:56:10Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398b8ecae0003/ the tom zone Saturday Night Mental Chex Mix tag:vox.com,2009-11-29:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123ddc3a235860b 2009-11-29T04:31:39Z 2009-12-04T18:56:10Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that your Holiday kick-off has been painless. I hate the holidaze, as I'm sure I've mentioned before. I'd be perfectly content not to receive any presents, as long as I weren't r...

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]]> Thanksgiving 2009, 0512 EST: (NaBloPoMo and Tom: Epic FAIL!) tag:vox.com,2009-11-14:asset-6a00e398b8ecae000301240b788bb4860e 2009-11-26T10:12:48Z 2009-12-04T16:17:03Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The diva and her valet

Well, it was a good thought. The maxim states that the road to the hot place is tarred with good intentions. Filling in a pothole or two on Hell's turnpike are my plans to write a blog post each November day. I could blame several different th...

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]]> Sunday Headlines from the Tom Zone tag:vox.com,2009-10-18:asset-6a00e398b8ecae000301240b6bee7a860e 2009-10-18T23:47:56Z 2009-10-23T16:04:28Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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In response to scanning the radio on my way home from breakfast: While I admit freely that I have had "fun" during many nights, at no point have I ever felt compelled to "Wang Chung tonight," either alone or with "everybody." However, I will agr...

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]]> Sunday news, addendum tag:vox.com,2009-10-12:asset-6a00e398b8ecae000301240b67f626860e 2009-10-12T01:01:38Z 2009-10-18T23:32:42Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Sara's sister, Eliza's Aunt Mindy, sent this to my e-mail. It bears passing on: Sara asks that as you pray for us, you also pray for the donor's family, who were kind enough to give something so precious so that Eliza will have a new life. I ca...

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]]> Sunday news tag:vox.com,2009-10-11:asset-6a00e398b8ecae000301240b67db6d860e 2009-10-11T21:57:24Z 2009-10-12T16:14:53Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Hi. Please send your prayers, good thoughts, healing vibes, white light--whatever you do--to Eliza H. She's 17 years-old, and I worked with her mother, Sara, back in Tallahassee. Eliza was born with numerous congenital heart defects, and wasn'...

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]]> Friday snert in honor of the 45th Leif Ericson Day tag:vox.com,2009-10-09:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123ddab80fb860b 2009-10-09T19:21:13Z 2009-10-10T00:20:08Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom (Happy Friday!) TWO OLD MEN DECIDED THEY WERE CLOSE TO THEIR LAST DAYS AND DECIDED TO HAVE A LAST NIGHT ON THE TOWN. AFTER A FEW DRINKS THEY END UP AT THE LOCAL BROTHEL. THE MADAM TAKES ONE LOOK AT THE TWO OLD GEEZERS AND WHISPERS TO HER MA...

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]]> Friday Night Mental Chex Mix tag:vox.com,2009-10-03:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123dda8cec1860b 2009-10-03T20:33:11Z 2009-10-06T04:21:32Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom From the weird dream file: I was imprisoned in Nazi Germany, although (thank God) not in one of the concentration camps. Apparently, I was incarcerated for something dumb, like drunk & disorderly conduct, or peeing on a dumpster. Anyway, I was...

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]]> Parallel Endless Summers tag:vox.com,2009-09-27:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123ddced1d1860d 2009-09-27T00:46:36Z 2009-09-29T12:24:34Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom One thing about life in Florida: the summer seems endless. We're "officially" four days into autumn, and it's a steamy 90 degrees, our daily afternoon thunderstorm just adding to our seasonally omnipresent humidity. I talked to somebody in Utah...

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]]> Sunday Legal Stuff tag:vox.com,2009-09-20:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123f162d8e3860f 2009-09-20T18:21:35Z 2009-09-23T16:27:03Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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(The Tom Zone legal department has been busy since my last post. The following are certainly heartfelt, even if they are mandated by legal wranglings on three continents (and if you have to pee all the time, you're incontinent--shouldn't it be O...

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]]> Hardly shocking tag:vox.com,2009-09-17:asset-6a00e398b8ecae00030123dda343b9860b 2009-09-17T23:45:33Z 2009-09-24T01:24:28Z tom http://thetomzone.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Your result for The Undead Fiend Test ... Zombie Aaargh! Braaaiiins! The good thing about being a Zombie is that you don't know what you're missing. Everyone else knows however, and it scares the Hell out of them! Now I am not referring to t...

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