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Living The Dream

Written by Philip Herman Monday, 17 March 2008
Several nights ago I was walking down Queen St on my way home from my job as a late night baker. A slow chill ran up my spine as I slowly became aware of something following me. Without bothering to turn around, I instinctively knew it was the giant frog I had short changed earlier that night and that he had come for a piece of my pie. I started running. As I ran Queen St began to change, becoming greener and rockier until I was wading through a stream. I was now in his element. As the water got deeper and my legs began to fail me, I could feel the frog’s clammy breath on my neck. I resigned myself to my fate and sank into the river’s icy depths. It was then that I felt strong hands on my shoulders lifting me up; I opened my eyes to reveal the ground far below me and the frog a tiny speck shaking its fist and cursing my name. I looked up and saw that my saviour was none other than my girlfriend Rihanna. She met my gaze, smiled and winked as we flew onward through the sky.
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Assassination of the Future

Written by Philip Herman Monday, 10 March 2008
Picture this:  You wake up early in the morning to go to work. You shower, have breakfast, grab what you need for the day and head to the garage. You check the battery level on your electric car and because you remembered to plug it in the night before the batteries are charged. You turn it on. Instead of the low roar of a thousand tiny explosions common to the obsolete internal combustion engine, your car is virtually silent. You hit the streets. There you join a long line of other electric cars running smoothly and silently without smoke pouring out the end of their tailpipes. In fact they don’t even have tailpipes. That’s because the electric car is emission free. As you get stuck in rush hour traffic you wind down your window and breathe in long deep breaths of smog free air. 
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Culture Stock

Written by Jamie Melbourne-Hayward Monday, 10 March 2008
Standing in mother’s kitchen for a reprieve from real life I drank deep from the kitchen tap, said “Ahhh” and marveled at my trees. It was written by a quiet dwarf that reverse culture shock is more shocking than proper culture shock.
   Evidently it does depend on the fishbowl you’re looking through. Anyone who has witnessed a few genuine Asian markets wishes they hadn’t - once a million chicks have been sprayed every color of the rainbow; inside all is born a quiet deterioration of the desire to feed upon the stuff. Also, there is no wonder as to why all the American girls (north to south) have such large breasts at such tender-chicken-licking ages. Were hatch farms given the OK by all those Disney movies? Look ya damn fools: they all live in little happy-time adventure communities.
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The allure of conspiracy theories

Written by Ryan Boyd Monday, 10 March 2008
Most of us aren't schizophrenic and yet a huge number believe that there is often more to a story than what we are being told. Everyone's heard the rumour that there was another gunman on the grassy knoll when JFK was shot and what about the way the flag on the moon seemed to blow in the atmosphere-less Moon's breeze? The point of this article is not to debunk or prove any conspiracies but to explain what it is about them that we find so attractive and alluring; romantic even.
    Conspiracy theories fascinate us as humans, even if we find them ridiculously absurd. And it's not just the paranoid nut-jobs like Ian Wishart who find themselves questioning the official account of particular events provided by authority figures. Even I found my usually very logical mind leaning the other way after seeing a documentary giving evidence for a faked Moon landing.
   
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