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“No superlatives can exaggerate its importance,” according to one review of “Cré na Cille," or "Churchyard Clay," an Irish novel written in 1948 by Máirtín Ó Cadhain. The novel was first rejected by a variety of publishers, and was passed from hand to hand in certain regions of the country. The language is both crass and truthful, and the story is for the ones telling it and the ones who can read it (in Gaelic); Ó Cadhain's "own people." 

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Dion McGregor has known a successful career as a song writer, but he's better known as the articulate narrator of each and every one of his own dreams. His sleep talking is so eloquent and detailed that neuroscientists have used him to understand the unconscious, subconscious, and the transient nightmare that is "Food Roulette." Full disclosure, the recordings of his dream sequences are interesting, weird, and really freaking funny. 

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A must-read for any Green or Gold Card members at Starbucks (of which I am a reluctant participant). The coffee chain is going from a "per purchase" to a "per dollar" system. Now, those who purchase more at once will earn stars faster than those who purchase a single beverage, rather than the two transactions being equal. They're spinning it as a positive so I beg you to use your deductive reasoning skills, wit, and cynicism to decide for yourself. Now if only Alanis Moressette would explain it to us through song. 

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I've recently been hearing rumblings about the harmful effects of consuming "Deadly Nightshade" plants. The Nightshade Family includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and other fruits and vegetables common in diets around the world. Some dieticians and nutritionists have begun researching their inflammatory effects, now that anti-inflammatory foods and spices are "in." If you ask me, it's just another gluten is good/gluten is bad debate. GLUTEN IS GLUTEN, PEOPLE. But anyway...

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