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Daily Archives: February 22, 2004
Dinner With Julio
It was back in 1975, and the 22-year-old Dowbrigade was in rough shape in a tight spot. Huddled on the floor of the glorified warehouse that served as the International Terminal of the airport in Cali, Columbia, stomach empty, nary … Continue reading
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Clash of Cultures
The Dowbrigade has written previously on the ongoing disappearance of indigenous cultures around the world. We realize it is not a question of somehow preserving these cultures like some kind of exotic insects frozen in amber. Rather, we must search … Continue reading
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Evil Empire Deep-sixed Dr. Dean
Since the talking heads have made the dissection of the Dean Debacle practically a national pastime, we have learned that Dr. Dean was betrayed and undone by a) Himself b) The Democratic Party, c) The Media Mafia, and/or d) … Continue reading
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Cheesus Christ Super Sharp
The Dowbrigade remembers attending a particularly ostentatious Bar Mitzvah in Brookline a few years back and seeing a life-size Torah molded entirely from Chopped Liver. Only Jews, we thought, would do something as gastronomically gauche as that. Wrong again. … Continue reading
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Art or Atrocity – Under the Skin
Macabre doesn’t begin to describe the work of German artist/anatomist Gunter von Hagens, who is turning human cadavers into artwork at the Von Hagens Plastination factory in Dalian, in northeast China. Although he does the actual body work in … Continue reading
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