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Latest Article: The Whole Shebang

by John J Savo

Australia and eBay seem to be okay with the buying and selling of human beings.

“Absolutely everything I have, I take nothing with me.”  That’s what Ian Usher told the entire world when he decided to auction off his entire life.  Mr. Usher, a 45-year-old British businessman, had been living in Perth, Australia with his wife Laura.  On June 29, the final bid was taken for all that he had and all that he was.  As soon as the buyer pays him, Mr. Usher claims he will walk out of his house with nothing but the clothes he’s wearing, his wallet, and his passport, and head to wherever the winds blow him to begin a new life…

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This week, I find myself within a maelstrom of distraction. Before the publication of this article, many others hatched from my over-taxed brain only to be snuffed out by lack of inspiration, much like newborn sea turtles are gobbled up by birds before they can cross the beach and enter the ocean. Yet, fear not! I will not leave you starved of my genius, but tease you with it. Just pretend you’re a judge at a chile cook-off, or better yet: You’re at one of those restaurants where you get to taste little bits of whatever the chefs are making. In this instance, you get to taste little bits of whatever I’m thinking…

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I recently finished watching a thirty-seven-episode anime called Death Note. It is very new. In fact the last three episodes aren’t even in English yet, forcing me to read whilst watching TV. I normally hate subtitles outside of Star Wars, but this animated series (and yes it’s for adults) was so engaging and so brilliant, that I couldn’t wait for the final episodes to be dubbed. I had to see how it ended. Normally, I am not an anime fan, because the plots are usually derivative, the characters stupid, and the dialogue hokey. Not the case with Death Note, only the third anime I have ever watched from beginning to end.

Leonardo’s Folly and $4K+ Vintage Beer Cans

We all know the story of how Leonardo da Vinci used his time machine to travel back to the Jerusalem of antiquity, where he burst in on the Last Supper, forced Jesus and the Apostles to one side of the table, and placed them all into unnatural postions. After snapping several Polaroids with a Kodak he had acquired on a trip to the future, da Vinci returned to his own time and painted “The Last Supper.”

Hypocrisy in Urination

Would you put a porta-potty inside your home? I certainly wouldn’t. Call me unreasonable, but when I have finished my business in the bathroom, I take great comfort in the ability to flush it away. However, were it a hundred years ago, and I did not have indoor plumbing, I would have an outhouse in my back yard. Inconvenient perhaps, but necessary. Even our primitive ancestors from a century ago, who had no Internet, no cell phones, and no television, understood the need for keeping human waste away from their living quarters. Why, then, would a brand new, multi-million-dollar facility employ the modern equivalent of an outhouse inside its men’s room?

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Absurdity and hilarity surround the breathing, the dead, and even the inanimate. Nothing is taboo and nothing is sacred within these candid accounts of life, humanity, and the auction world as authored by an auctioneer.
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