Category Archives: ESL Links

Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier … Continue reading →

Pain. A transitory state of nerve excitation with an infinite number of causes and textures. Can be overcome with certain advanced mental techniques, or narcotics, or both. Preferably both. We are almost done with putting our stuff into storage. Most … Continue reading →

The Church of Days Later Savings has a new saint. Saint Jean of East Cambridge has appeared out of nowhere to offer sanctuary to the Dowbrigade cats for the duration of the Great Experiment. We DO believe in miracles. Jean … Continue reading →

Despite having a “confirmed” reservation for YESTERDAY U-Haul STILL doesn’t have a truck for us (turns out “confirmed” means “depending on availability” and is basically a scam so you don’t go rent somewhere else), so we are busily moving an … Continue reading →

The finished product of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti’s "Ice Cube Project" is seen in Ilullissat, Greenland, Thursday, March 24, 2004. Evaristti used 3,000 liters (780 gallons) of dye used to highlight meat diluted with sea water, three fire hoses, … Continue reading →

It’s moving day, for better or worse. Already emotional and physical wrecks over the preliminaries, today we are supposed to get the bulk of our stuff out of 396 Salem St. in Malden just a few block down from Malden … Continue reading →

Those who embark on the Way discover very early that there are two distinct ways to approach the goal. There is the Path of Contemplation, delving deeply into disassociation, aestheticism, abolition of ego and transcendance of desire. And there is … Continue reading →

Somewhat surprisingly, our “Kitty Call” has generated more comments than any other Dowbrigade posting ever. We would like to sincerely thank all of the people who offered to help. Many of them were too far away, like in other states, … Continue reading →

Inevitably, the Great Experiment has yet to begin and we are already in crisis mode. All three of our failsafe offers to care for our two lovely cats while we are out of the country have fallen through at the … Continue reading →

Passers by walking down Mt. Auburn St. this week were shocked to see the venerable Harvard Lampoon Building bedecked in the corporate logo of one of America’s favorite soft drinks. Officials of the Lampoon, reportedly dismayed by flagging magazine sales … Continue reading →

As as the cardboard boxes climb towards the ceilings and the passageways of our apartment become more and more obstructed with suitcases, packing cases and garbage bags, the flashes of disorienting panic get more frequent and severe. We are so … Continue reading →

LONDON – A teenage boy pretended to perform a sex act on a head which had been removed from a body in a graveyard tomb, a witness told a court today. The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal … Continue reading →