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President Musharraf Refuted the Stories
2008-05-30 09:37:00
  Rumours that President Pervez Musharraf is on his way out took the country by storm on Thursday severely affecting the public and commercial life. Despite repeated denials from the quarters concerned the mill continued to churn out rumours of various kinds till they were quashed by President Musharraf himself in the night. President Musharraf refuted ...
The Stories Behind 10 Famous Product Placements
2008-05-22 14:26:00
I saw Run, Fatboy, Run this weekend. Loved it. The movie centers around a marathon called the Nike River Run. This, of course, was accompanied by Nike River Run signs splattered all over London. At one point, the main character receives a brand-spanking-new pair of running shoes?Nike, of course?and is told that they are ?the best money can buy.? My first thought was, ?I wonder how much Nike paid for that.? I read that the filmmakers originally wanted the race to be the London Marathon, but that was already being used by another movie. Thus, the Nike River Run was invented. Nonetheless, I wonder about product placement whenever I see a logo or company name pop up in a movie. Was that a paid deal? Or just something that the moviemakers threw in there? Here are the answers to some of those questions?including the Seinfeld Junior Mints and the Reese?s Pieces from E.T.1. Junior Mints, Seinfeld ?Who?s gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It?s chocolate, it?s peppermint, it?s delicious!? Were...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
2008-04-22 01:44:00
      Just think . . . “If you take very, very good care of yourself, you can look forward to getting sick and dying.”      SO PAY ATTENTION ! Anxiety.  Anxiety is partly a choice.      There are two kinds of anxiety:  ACUTE, as when a car is bearing down on you.   And, CHRONIC, the anxiousness we experience in a more or less on-going way about WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.       The “What ifs.”      What if I’m late?  What I get lost?  What if he doesn’t like me?  What if I spill something?    What if everyone else there is smarter, cuter, richer, and thinner than I am?  What if I fail?  What if they laugh in my face?  What if I’ve gained weight?  What if I don’t succeed?    These questions, while pesky, aren’t as big a problem as the LIFE or DEATH stranglehold we put on the issues . . . I mean, what ACTUALLY does happen if when we’re late, say something stupid, trip, lose, or dress so poorly ...
'Heroes With Issues': The Stories Behind The Iraq-War Vets Featured In MTV'
2008-03-20 00:17:00
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will talk with eight Iraq-war veterans for "Choose or Lose Presents Clinton & Obama Answer Young Veterans" -- here are the vets' stories.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away: The Stories Behind Every Song (Paperba
2008-01-09 06:01:00
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away: The Stories Behind Every Song (Paperback)By Rob Fitzpatrick Buy new: $23.95$17.9621 utilised and new from $6.98 Customer Rating: First tagged “alternative” by L. Wantland “Hippie Chick” ...
The stories of lust and traps
2008-01-07 20:38:00
She was a student of a medical school, a lady from a respectable family with a feudal background from interior of Sindh. Once she told me that when she got admitted, it was a break from the convention and his father had taken the risk of sending some female member of family for higher education. ...
By: Silence
The stories of lives laid waste by google continue
2007-12-17 21:49:00
Stories abound about the lives ruined by the latest slapdown by google. I’ve just read of two people losing their jobs because of it. The drop in pagerank is a theoretical thing for google yet now two people are on the dole because of it and they didn’t violate google’s terms of service because, contrary to ...
Call for submissions: The stories of our bodies
2007-12-01 07:49:00
A couple years ago I took an honors seminar on the culture of eating disorders. As to be expected, the class was comprised entirely of women; some were openly eating disordered, and many of the rest, I suspect, were secretly disordered or, at the very least, possessed disordered thinking about food. Our first ...
The End
2007-11-30 02:15:00
He approached her with all the finesse of a man trying to ice a cake with a forklift. She noticed the double take, the awkward easing onto the barstool and the ignorant flourish with which he attempted to get the bartender?s attention. Naturally the man behind the bar wasn?t used to being summoned with a ...
Letting Go
2007-11-29 03:08:00
After years of fighting the good fight he finally decided to let go. It hadn?t been easy. He had tried everything in his power. He had done the exercises, he had worn the right clothes, chewed various roots and seeds, chanted a few mantras and even made several aborted attempts at eating the right food. ...
Street Beat
2007-11-28 01:35:00
She was walking down the street thinking [I can?t believe what I?m hearing!]. It wasn?t just her, there were several other people sharing the same pavement space who didn?t look too thrilled about the foul language polluting their air because of the two men walking past them.
Home Invasion
2007-11-27 02:40:00
The patter of footsteps was soft enough to have been mistaken for any number of things that wouldn?t be considered foul play. Unfortunately for the bearer of said pittering and pattering feet, Amadeus Duck was not a homeowner who took sudden unexpected noises in his stride. He didn?t say, ?it?s probably mice or a stray ...
My Gal Poison
2007-11-26 02:45:00
She was the type of girl men went to war for. Actually, calling her a girl was tantamount to giving the call to attack right there. She was and had been a woman for quite some time. Almost nobody failed to notice that she was fully grown and well filled out in all the right ...
Gossip Chain
2007-11-25 04:43:00
She was frowning in concentration. He loved it when she did that. He felt like kissing her. It was one of his favourite things to do ? to try and make her frown. He didn?t often succeed. He made her laugh though and that should have been alright but theirs was not that kind of ...
Chasing Fame
2007-11-24 03:01:00
They rushed into the house, excited and smiling, like two little boys who had discovered that big girls didn?t yell at them if they peeked under their mini skirts. Anahita immediately wanted to know what they had been up to but they were content to keep grinning at each other like happy confidantes too afraid ...
Mortality Acknowledged
2007-11-23 01:49:00
In the afterlife of senses, right next to the virulent half-truths that populate every corner of reality, I am tempted to live my life. As I have done for the millennia of wasted seconds that is the reality of this and every other life lived and died on this planet throughout history. Ever since man ...
Wiggle Room
2007-11-22 03:24:00
She had her spectacles on. Over the four months they had been together like this he always considered it a special moment when she brought her spectacles down. They looked cool enough holding her hair back but there was something just incredibly sexy about her spectacle-clad face. She ran her pen down a sheet of ...
Bring The Cool
2007-11-21 04:52:00
They were walking and talking, something both of them did a lot of, together and with other people. Too hip for the good of most regular people they grinningly referred to it as promiscuous W&T. His name was Aaron and hers was Nisha. They had lived in each other?s neighbourhood for long enough to know ...
Collision Course
2007-11-20 02:20:00
It turned out that people didn?t jump out of the way like they did in the Hollywood movies when a speeding car came at them at way too many miles-per-hour to stop short of hitting them. They just stood there and stared, frozen like a Madame Tussauds waxworks tableau that could appear lifelike but was ...
Luck Of The Draw
2007-11-19 02:19:00
She had no idea of what to do with the telephone call so she considered simply not telling anyone about it. But her face had gone kind of still so everyone around her knew that the phone call wasn?t a wrong number or a generic business call. The moment she flipped her clamshell shut they ...
Perfect Fit
2007-11-18 04:14:00
She had her head on his lap, it was nice. A stray thought told him it would be nicer if she was face down but he was okay with the intimacy not being sexual. His head was providing her enough shade that she didn?t need to squint against the brilliant blue of a perfectly cloudless ...
The Stripper
2007-11-17 05:09:00
He rubbed his eyes with a satisfaction so great he wanted to find a metaphor for it. It had been a long hard day and his back had been threatening to freeze into a rictus of pain at several points during the series of meetings he had been party to. It was such a pleasure ...
The Robbery
2007-11-16 04:26:00
He was sipping his café latte and fuming, an impressive feat since the coffee was hot and it must have burnt his tongue every one of the first few times he put the cup to his lips. If it hurt his throat he didn?t seem to notice. He was too busy being angry. She was ...
Tragic Soul Mates
2007-11-15 03:51:00
There are some absolute inevitabilities in life, especially the longer you live it. You?re going to make it into the shower without remembering your clothes (or a towel); the doorbell?s going to ring while you?re on the toilet and you?re all alone at home; you?re going to accidentally knock over a glass of milk or ...
Publicist?s Revenge
2007-11-14 04:53:00
She was wearing her widest smile so he knew she was happy to see him. Every single time he scheduled a meeting he worried they would have figured it out so it made his heart lurch to see her look so happy to see him. But he knew what he had to do and he ...
Getting Written Off
2007-11-13 04:23:00
He stepped out of his apartment building and looked suitably surprised to find that it was raining. He stared up at the sky, getting rain water up his nose in the process, and spluttered, ?But it?s November!? A car pulled up besides him and the driver, a girl, rolled down her window, ?It?s not good to ...
Nubilia
2007-11-12 04:58:00
She was naked. It was her preferred state when she was home. Even though she hadn?t really traveled she was glad to be home. As the portal granting her admittance to her bed chamber hissed open it left a slim column of smoke in its wake. She closed her eyes and allowed the dissipating vapour ...
Ah Paris!
2007-11-11 04:21:00
He was jogging along the Seine when the beautiful woman on the bicycle passed by. He picked up his pace and gave chase, calling out after her, ?Mademoiselle, mademoiselle?? Perhaps she didn?t hear him or maybe the sight of a man in jogging attire running very fast, waving a raised arm and calling out in ...
Curtain Call
2007-11-10 04:58:00
This is it really. This is the part where I reel it all in, stack it up in one corner and leave. After making absolutely sure that none of it will topple over and have me make a mad dash for something the laws of physics have already taken away from me. I have to ...
Ink That Never Ran
2007-11-09 04:33:00
She pulled back her sleeves and bared her arms, like an angry widow might bare her breasts that the world could see that she was still a woman even though her primary source of definition was dead. Her name was Nina and she was neither a widow nor were her arms her breasts. She bared ...
Defeating Sloth
2007-11-08 03:40:00
?You haven?t washed your hair?? ?And a very good afternoon to you too!? ?When was the last time you washed your hair?? ?You know I?m a guy right?? ?Oh here we go. What?s the point??
Blank
2007-11-07 02:27:00
The blinking cursor stared at him, like the slit in a cat?s eye, doing the peek-a-boo as a way of messing with his head while he tried to come up with something to write. He made a mental note to challenge a writer friend to find something worthwhile to say when he was suffering a ...
Miami
2007-11-06 05:17:00
He was in Miami and the skater boys offered to take him along to their favourite park. When he asked if they were going to Echo Park they looked surprised. ?You been there before,? one of them asked? He shook his head, no, he didn?t even know there was an Echo Park in Miami. [Wasn?t ...
Chutzpah
2007-11-05 01:42:00
She was in that state of mind where a girl is single and unwilling to mingle. She didn?t think it was unclear. She wasn?t wearing a revealing dress, she wasn?t idly playing with her hair or darting glances around the restaurant or checking her reflection in a mirror she produced out of a well-stocked purse. ...
Ageing Disgracefully
2007-11-04 04:58:00
It was most definitely the age thing. It was what the kids would call a bummer. He would call a gay man a bummer but that was just him. He was not of the time. He was neither hip nor cool nor was he likely to be looked upon kindly for rolling a joint in ...
Truth, Discovered
2007-11-03 04:15:00
He tapped the head of his pencil on the bleached wood table top and avoided looking at her eyes. He was being annoying on two counts ? making that tapping sound and avoiding her eyes when he spoke. The third way in which he was being annoying was by saying what he said and the ...
Mugged
2007-11-02 02:55:00
They were hunched over, both of them together like two joggers who had gone further than they should have and breathlessness and a stitch in their side was the price they paid for trying to be too macho. Except that they were not both guys and one of them was resting his hand on the ...
Truthful Fake
2007-11-01 03:54:00
They had done the casual nodding at each other in social situations so many times they were well on their way to becoming Facebook-style friends. He didn?t even know her name but that didn?t seem to prevent the sense of familiarity they shared. They worked out at the same gym, dined at the same restaurants ...
Solitary
2007-10-31 02:23:00
He was hunched over, even when he was standing up straight with his arms raised over his head. Not that he was needed very often to raise his hands over his head. It?s not like he lived in an old Western town or something where leather-skinned men with warts and crooked eyes popped up in ...
Disinherited Son
2007-10-30 02:58:00
He had a real glint in his eyes when he spoke, as if he was the favourite son saying something mischievous and adorable at the same time, ?You always said, ?family is everything.? Do you remember that?? The old man in the wheelchair with the cane for walking and the assistant for helping him stand ...
Angriest Man Alive
2007-10-29 03:11:00
To simply try and elucidate how he felt was to try and bring back all those feelings he had no control over when they washed up like a tidal wave intent on crushing everything. He had never been so angry. No that was not true, he had been so angry many times before and on ...
Manga Girl, Imperiled
2007-10-28 05:49:00
He couldn?t tell if it was the way she was standing or whether it was because of the clothes she was wearing that he thought of manga. Specifically the erotic ones. That she was wearing a tartan skirt that was shorter than he normally saw girls in was definitely an aid. But it wasn?t that ...
The Girl On The Phone
2007-10-27 04:04:00
?Hello?? ?Hello. Who is this?? ?Actually, could you please tell me who this is?? ?Woah that?s not how it works. You called me, you tell me who it is. I don?t care if you?re a chick with a hot voice. Phone lines can be deceiving.? ?No, you don?t understand. I?m in a really dark place and my battery is ...
Woman In A Compromising Position
2007-10-26 04:03:00
He walked in the door and nearly fell back out. He definitely did take several penguin steps backwards in surprise at what he saw from just inside the door. His brain screamed [If that?s what they?ve got on show just through the front door what kind of crazy orgiastic mania awaits through the VIP room?] ...
Inconvenient Lies
2007-10-25 03:04:00
How great is it when a sick person you know just, dies? Not great at all? Must?ve been someone related to you (funerals can be terribly wearing, especially when you can?t leave whenever you want to) or someone you loved. The exact same thing happened to Mary Sue and she was both hurt and angry ...
Final Set
2007-10-24 03:41:00
The strobe lights gave him a headache but he understood after the first two minutes of trying to explain to the guy who spoke a different English from him, that he was going to have to live with them during his set. Almost as if on cue and in direct contravention of his instructions, within ...
Unrequited
2007-10-23 03:26:00
The aroma of the coffee before him was doing nothing to invite him to drink it. He just stared straight ahead like he was expecting a certain event to occur. He sat with both his forearms on the table, on either side of his cup of coffee and it was as if his arms were ...
Aftertaste
2007-10-22 04:59:00
[It?s all in the aftertaste] she thought, with a bitter glance into the near past. It troubled her that there were more nuances to the aftertaste of things made inedible by more than just their size or inability to be cooked. It hurt her sense of logic that more events, interactions and shared experiences had ...
Chain of Events
2007-10-21 07:10:00
It was like a bomb exploded in the street right outside the bar and one person was thrown through the front door. Several people had their mouths open at the exact moment that Neville Bunton flew through the front door around half past one. That there were so many people in the bar at that ...
The Stories inside General Motors
2007-10-20 11:51:00
General Motors has recently announced that they will be offering XM satellite radio standard on all 2008 Buick, Hummer, and Saab models with quality Saab radiator. Aside from these new models of which include the Chevrolet Malibu, Silverado, Tahoe, Cobalt, Corvette and Impala, Saturn VUE, OUTLOOK, Aura and Sky, GMC Acadia, Yukon, and Sierra, Pontiac ...
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