“You mind if I have one of your smokes?” Jack asked the customer on the floor. “Hell, take them all,” squeaked the man softly. Jack, noticing that the man had soiled himself, remembered his manners, and thanked him for the smokes.
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Artistic Creation
The Life of a Five Dollar Bill
I’m alive! Or something like it…
Today's words of wisdom:
When the white rabbit peaks, throw the radio in the bathtub!
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Abstract anguish
counting seconds
until the day
when it all ends
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Nasa Image of the Day
- A Chameleon SkyThe sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images o […]