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You light up my litter tray

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that South Korean scientists, by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, have produced cloned cats that glow in the dark.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 19, 2007

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Don't tase me, bro

The year in would-be catch phrases
2007 was the year that viral humor hit critical mass.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 21, 2007

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They shall not pass gas

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that scientists have recently isolated methane-mitigating microbes in the intestinal lining of the kangaroo, and plan to replicate them in cattle to reduce the emission of “cow-created” greenhouse gas
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

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To winter

Lines upon the death of the year
Lines upon the death of the year
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

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Mutiny in Heaven

Philip Pullman ’ s fantasy novels are condemned as a crash course in militant atheism. But one BU professor thinks otherwise.
It is a truth now well established that the idea for a series of books about a schoolboy wizard did not , in fact, originate with its author, J.K. Rowling (as she has naively claimed), but was piped up red-hot and stinking from Below.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 06, 2007

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His pants were so on fire

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan will be publishing a memoir in 2008
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

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Hell on earth

The Devil and Darfur
How does the Devil get his work done? With the greatest of ease, seems to be the answer.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 27, 2007

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Without a stain on his character

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines in defense of Judge Roy Pearson, who lost a $54 million lawsuit against his dry cleaner and has now lost his job
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

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Agent Zimmerman

Bob Dylan? A CIA spy? Wait . . . now it all makes sense. (Or as much sense as his lyrics make, anyway.)
I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from my knee when the man in the off-white linen suit told me that he was the one who recruited Bob Dylan into the CIA.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 20, 2007

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Holy dread

Om, Middle East Upstairs, November 18, 2007
A riot in the nervous system, on the point of being a riot for real.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 09, 2007

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Not shipping up to Boston

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will not, as previously rumored, be making a stop in Boston during his upcoming visit to the US
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 14, 2007

Wrestle in peace

Remembering Mailer, the blustery king of American letters
In a life of many garlands and much renown, it was Mailer’s strange engagement with literary destiny always to be trapped on the wrong side of his art.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 14, 2007

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Bat bummer

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that the actor Christian Bale, playing Batman in a new movie, has been unable to perform stunts in the waters of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor due to high pollution levels
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

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Trash talk

Who knew recycling, shorter showers, and organic spinach could cause such angst?
Trash night. Trash night, trash night, trash night. Abfallnacht , as they probably call it in Germany.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 07, 2007

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Pleasure me

Van Halen, TD Banknorth Garden, October 30, 2007
How much red-blooded American entertainment can one town take?
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 05, 2007

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Swept off our feet

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
A sonnet for Pat D., the Phoenix cleaning guy, upon the winning of the 2007 World Series by his beloved Boston Red Sox
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 31, 2007

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Dreams of field

Our unlicensed psychiatrist answers disturbing questions about the joy of Sox
Do you see Dustin Pedroia in your sleep, riding a tiny blue bicycle?
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 31, 2007

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Kurt Cobain: About a Son

A cough-syrup trip through the myth of Cobain
Now this is interesting.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 31, 2007

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No turning back

Could be verse: poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines in recognition of Eric Lamarque, the Canadian truck driver who this past week caused extensive damage to the Mass Pike’s brand-new Allston U-turn.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 16, 2008

Chronicle of a death foretold

Joy Division were rooted in grim finality. Now, through a series of new books, CDs, and films, the band has found new life.
What a difference a death makes.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 24, 2007
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