Monthly Archives: September 2009

B There or B Square

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The Busy Days of Mr. UBU

  Certainly a confluence of stuff for Mr. UBU. First of all there’s the resumption of the Ann Arbor Public Library book sale. I love the darn thing, and it’s certainly a main source of books for my store and … Continue reading

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The Clairvoyant Princess

Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise, daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja, has emerged as a clairvoyant, and is launching an alternative school aimed at training students to contact angels.

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Crime Beat: Have a Ball

  Fayette County man fires cannonball through neighbor’s house   Police said a man in Georges Township, Fayette County, fired a metal cannon that sent a two-pound lead ball into his neighbor’s house. William Edward Maser, 54, fired the cannon … Continue reading

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Veronica’s Existential Epiphany

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Crime Beat: Banking On Divorce

LANCASTER, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania man says he robbed a bank in 2007 to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife. At a sentencing hearing yesterday, 39-year-old Anthony Miller said he robbed a bank in Ephrata … Continue reading

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UBU Turning on Ann Arbor?

I’m reading The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine’s Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel, and there was one sentence in it that so reminded me of my various Ann Arbor antagonists: He embodied everything that Heine despised about the radical … Continue reading

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