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Dopodomani

English - Holidays, Social Media, Social Justice
http://dopodomani.me
Dopodomani · 1M ago

How Not to Suck at Something

I’ve always dreamed of being a writer.  A damned good writer.  Someone that finds himself sitting at a tiny table in a New York bookstore, signing a hardcover book and adding some pithy statement.  Perhaps for some yawning cubicle cowboy during his lunchbreak, who says to me  ”I don’t get your stuff
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Dopodomani · 1M ago

6 Ways to Develop Your Sense of Humor

“Humor is tragedy plus time.” ~ Mark Twain Seriously. It’s pretty bad out there these days. Natural disasters, job losses, gas prices, and the Transformers movies just keep coming. We’re not waiting for the next shoe to drop anymore — we’re waiting for it to smack us upside the head. Hard. How do we
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Dopodomani · 2M ago

The Waffle Bus

March 25th is Waffle Day.  Oh, you could break out the two-sided indented breakfast champion, smack around some Bisquick in a bowl and become everyone’s favorite friend at the dining room table.  Nobody’s stopping you.  If you live in the Houston area, however, you might want to revisit your maple s
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Dopodomani · 2M ago

Abducted by Aliens? Top 50 Signs

March 20th is Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.  This doesn’t mean expect to be whisked away today from that Starbucks line by little green or grey dudes with large heads, black eyes and long, pokey fingers.  On Monday mornings especially, however, getting snatched from the endless queue for a carame
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Dopodomani · 7M ago

What Are You, Nuts?

Written in commemoration of National Nut Day In the Olduvai Gorge of Africa over 1,000,000 years ago, they enjoyed them, placing them on top of rocks and gingerly tapping them, one by one, until each was released, a repetition leaving small circular indentations in the stones surviving to this day.
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Dopodomani · 7M ago

The Bitter Taste of What We Take

I was introduced to two adrenaline-rushing moments at once, as his big, pimply face slammed up beside one side of mine, and I heard the quiet slink of a switchblade opening near the other side.
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Dopodomani · 7M ago

How to Be Interesting in Social Media

“To be a person is to have a story to tell.” - Isak Dinesen Written for October 5th, in commemoration of National Storytelling Festival Day… Aristotle wrote in his treatise Poetics that there are seven golden rules to being successful in telling a story – plot, character, theme, dialogue, chorus, dé
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Dopodomani · 8M ago

Embracing the Stranger

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.  ~ Francis Bacon The day was September 15, 2001, just four days after we held each other in front of our televisions, watching our combined sense of security explode, disintegrate, tumble to the very ground
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Dopodomani · 8M ago

The Michtoms and their Teddy Bear

Prior to the introduction of soft, cuddly Teddy Bears into American society, bears were considered to be symbols of strength and ferocity – likely because Americans hadn’t been long-removed from their pioneer roots. One never thought to hug one of the cute little babies of the sharp-toothed and long
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Dopodomani · 8M ago

Pardon Me, Please?

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. ~ Richard M. Nixon Sept. 8th is National Pardon Day.  Today commemorates our nation’s ideals with regard to political (and perhaps personal) forgiveness. The very idea that a politician, after the initial shock and let-down we share at discover
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