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The Weekend Eudemon ”“ Friday The Prospect of Death Wonderfully Focuses the Mind From the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/281711p-241383c.html]: "Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova says the tsunami that crumpled her body and killed her boyfriend has transformed her life - and she

Issue XI In case you missed it, we're posting at least twice a week now: once on Wednesdays (obviously) and one or more times on the weekends. The latter, we call The Weekend Eudemon. More details can be found at the end of this week's issue.

The Weekend Eudemon No, you're not on LSD. We've posted on a non-Wednesday. We're calling it The Weekend Eudemon because (i) it allows us to keep the same initials and (ii) we're too lazy to come up with an entirely new title.

Issue X From Groundhog Day to Ash Wednesday. The temperament swings quickly on this page. Kinda like its talent level. It's now the penitential season, of course. It's made particularly more difficult by Mardi Gras excesses (those Catholics are always sticking it to you somehow: eat

Issue IX A Groundhog Day issue. On this auspicious occasion, we remember the prognosticating groundhog's vicious-but-forgotten cousin, the hodag. The hodag was a dreadful and strong beast that terrorized the logging camps of the nineteenth century. It had great iron teeth, a long flat tail of bone with

Issue VII Lucky VII. We hope, anyway, thinking we could break that 1,000,000 reader barrier with this issue. It'd be a coup, seeing as readership is less than 500 at this point. Anyway, it's not our place to disprove numerology, only to laugh at

Issue VI We plod forward. In the grips of the Great Lakes' winter buffets, we have nothing better to do: the lawn needs no cutting, the golf courses are three feet under, the lakes are frozen, our Speedos are even more out of place than usual. And we don&

Issue V Welcome to the first issue of 2005 (and our fifth overall). Nothing much has changed since last year, with the exception of an exhilarating attack on our editor's mental faculties on December 31st. Our quality weekly tradition now spans two years. A Stab of Light Since

Issue IV Welcome to an abbreviated version of TWE. We plan to return to our full plate with the new year. Drinking with Toddlers I love playing with my six children and I look forward to drinking beer with them in some not-too-distant future. But we're not buddies.

Issue III Cleverness is scarce, but compliments are up. So we plow forward, a glass of merlot in one hand, a flagon of ale in the other, a keyboard in the third. Welcome to Issue III of TWE. I'm Glad My Dad Didn't Play Darth Vader