All the hubbub over Larry Miller cancelling the showing of Brokeback Mountain at his Utah theater got me thinking about potential sequel titles. Here are a few ideas:

Flatback Praire: a love story about two gay farmers.

Moneyback Mall: a love story about two gay retailers.

Comeback Field: a love story about two gay quarterbacks....
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Utah residents watching The Amazing Race got a good chuckle tonight at the expense of the Utah-hating Weaver family. After listening to them dis our state, we enjoyed watching them make a major route finding mistake on their way from Heber City to Park City. The editing on the show didn't even begin to do...
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Trans fats can't be as bad as people make them out to be, because everyone named Tran that I've ever known has been pretty skinny.

The news said today that the glaciers of Greenland are melting (Greenland may actually turn green!), and I wondered, is global warming going to destroy cancer cures in the Amazon, or uncover them in Greenland?

Seriously though, I'm sure we're losing more life in the Amazon than we're gaining in Greenland.

The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "prehistoric comedy". I see a caveman. I see laughing crowds. I see Chicago. I see spandex jackets. The future becomes clear.

Rob Becker's play Defending the Caveman, a comedy about how men and women struggle to relate, is playing in Chicago. This much you can learn...
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If "Web+1" is to overtake "Web 2.0", it needs a snappy theme song. Here it is, based on Love Plus One by Haircut 100:

Web Plus One

by Haircut 10.0

I, I clicked off of the site

Without bookmarking, "goodbye!"

Where does it go from here?

Is it blogging and feeds I hear?

R R...
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When hobbits get athletes foot (which is common, since they always walk around barefoot), do they use LOTRimin?

(Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)

I

Tear the envelopes, read the bills-

Stupid bills!

What a world of melancholy their advent instills!

Oh they stink, stink, stink,

In my icy grip of fright!

While the stars revolve, I think,

How the hell I'll eat and drink

With my bank balance so light;

They are slime,...
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One man's junk

Is another man's treasure.

I've laid out my junk,

So, what's your pleasure?

I've got CDs

And videos.

You've got a new baby?

I've got baby clothes.

Here are some parts

From old computers,

And books on tape

For you commuters.

How 'bout a loveseat,

Or a kitchen chair?

A waffle iron,...
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A private invitation

From someone I don't know

Arrived in my in box today

I didn't read it though.

Cuz I was busy checking out

Hot tips on penny stocks

I'd gotten from three strangers

Opportunity knocks!

I thought I'd spend the riches

That would soon come rolling in

On a logo for my company,...
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