It’s All Maya!

All right!  Hold your horses!  No, Gov. Blagojevich did not go before the Illinois Senate in Springfield naked, but he very well could have!  Just like in The Emperor’s New Clothes Blagojevich is persuaded in his mind that if he says something like “I’m innocent!” enough times, people will begin to believe it!!!  Or maybe he’s […]

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It really is a whole new way of shopping now that the internet has just about everything you want to buy at the click of a finger!  You can look inside books and read a couple of pages before deciding if that’s what you want!  Or you can listen to the music you want to […]

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This morning I had a really crazy dream!  I was in a classroom with a bunch of other students listening to a physics professor expound about some advanced theoretical equation.  When he finished writing on the board, he turned and looked at us as we sat there and said, “So can anyone solve this?….”
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When I think of Mexican cuisine, cheesecake is not the first thing that comes to mind!  Well actually it’s not even the second or third or tenth thing that comes to mind, but apparently it did to 55 pastry chefs who spent 60 hours making the world’s largest cheesecake in Mexico City yesterday!
Under the supervision […]

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Latest development pertaining to the Caylee Anthony case is the suicide attempt by Grandfather George Anthony this weekend.  If we look closer at what took place between Thursday when George went missing and Friday when he was found, it’s obvious that this was more a cry for help than an actual suicide attempt. 
By not showing […]

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The Academy Award Nominations were announced today with just a few surprises.  The biggest one being that Clint Eastwood received no nominations for his film Gran Torino.  I don’t particularly care for violent films, but I would have liked to have seen him nominated for Best Original Song.  Afterall it’s not like they had such […]

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The quote I love the best about Paris is Ernest Hemingway’s:
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
His quote captures everything about Paris in just that one sentence, for indeed […]

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As I was surfing the web I found a new sharing site called Acobay that lets you share your opinion about your favorite stuff on the internet.  The idea is to tell others what you like and why and in turn you meet others with the same views.  Sort of a meeting of the minds […]

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Maya Muses:  I just hope that the euphoria that people are feeling today will be the same in four years as people everywhere wish the new President of the United States well!
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There’s a phenomenon in the US that no other football team in the NFL can boast about except for the Pittsburgh Steelers!  The US can truly be called Steeler Nation!  I have been to every state in the continental US except for two and in every single state you will find not only die hard […]

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