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Eyes intently focused, a black wool cap pulled down over his head, Mike Pierce jogged in a steady rhythm. His rituals were typical for a distance runner—until he passed pallets of frozen unbaked pies and sweet red pepper pesto and a thermometer whose red hand pointed to minus-2 degrees. This story in today’s Los Angeles [...]

A Devil’s Dictionary* »

*Ambrose Bierce’s collection of dark and bitter definitions for common terms. So, the boy’s been playing soccer with Groton Parks and Recreation. The cool bit is that the games are behind the town library. The library’s a new(ish) building by New England standards–late 60′s. (As an aside, it’s pretty freakin’ cool–built in the late ’60s [...]

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