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Escape From Desiderata

7.24.08 @ 12:01AM

A blast from the healthy past: Never give up. Also: Oil-resistant pronouncements. Starving on biofuels. ESPN on probation. Plus more.

p> BLAST FROM THE PAST br> Re: James Bowman's Desired Things : /p> p>James Bowman, by even bothering to note the passing of Les Crane, treats "Desiderata" with far more respect than it merits. Even from the moment it came out, both the poem -- and more so, the recording of it -- were objects of contempt and ridicule, perhaps the most damning of all being the National Lampoon 's parody, "Deteriorata," which begins: br> /p> blockquote>Introduction p> em>You are a fluke br> Of the universe.

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spacegold| 10.30.08 @ 8:31PM

How dull.

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