I’m keeping it simple this year. I’ve never actually kept 
good financial records, exercised regularly, or learned a new language anyhow.
Time to roll up my sleeves.
This is the Daily Herald
It’s the newspaper for the Dutch side, where we live. It covers international and local news, but it especially brims with stories about Sint Maarten being slated to attain country statuson 10/10/10 rather than be part of the Netherland Antilles.
It is also full of these:
Clarivoyants.
Mediums.
People with supernatural knacks.
Occult Scientists.
This is less than half of those advertising clairvoyant services to those seeking love, fidelity among couples, impotence, come back of affections, sales, power, and setting and removal of spells. Some study the occult, some are men of god. I thought this was paradise, but I didn’t know I could come here and solve all my problems by means of spells. There go my New Year’s resolutions–I’m hiring Professor Mamadou instead.
Also fun:
Elementary, my dear Times
Theorem: Idea 1 + Idea 2 = Idea 3
1) The Times reports that YBA artist Michael Landy is creating an Art Bin for himself and the general public to throw artwork into as a “monument to creative failure.”
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2) The Times reports that another YBA, Damien Hirst, is the face of the past decade in art. Sic,
“Hirst’s bespectacled mug has dominated the British art scene over the past decade since he led his gang of Goldsmiths-trained artists out of the garret and into the market. … Even when banking systems crumbled he remained undaunted. When the fuss had died down, his face popped up again. He had gone back to the garret and taken up painting. The only difference was that now he could afford to pay for the heating.”
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3) We throw Hirst in the Art Bin…?