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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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December 9, 2001 IS IT ME OR DID IT JUST GET COLD? In a passage from his latest novel, "Rescue Me," Christopher Hart constructed an overblown metaphor comparing the act of love to a polar exploration. The effort won him the hardly coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award. His entry follows: "Her hand is moving away from my knee and heading north. Heading unnervingly and with a steely will towards the pole. ... Ever northward moves her hand, while she smiles languorously at my right ear. And when she reaches the north pole, I think in wonder and terror - she will surely want to pitch her tent." NOW YOU SEE HER, NOW YOU ... HEY, COME BACK HERE! A magician in Australia, who made his wife disappear in his act, tried to make her disappear in real life by opening fire on her with a prop pistol rigged to fire real bullets. Josef Mioduszewski held the gun to her forehead and fired several times before the gun finally went off, but the bullet lodged under her scalp, and she ran from their home into the street as he chased her with a lamp. She survived. The magician was depressed because his marriage was failing, and his career had been on the wane since he moved to Sydney from Poland 20 years ago. I'M JUST SAVING PEOPLE A TRIP TO THE CITY: A woman has opened her Litchfield, N.H., home to people who enjoy having sex with other people's mates. (And who doesn't?) Alas, the wife-swapping enterprise known as A Touch of Paradise has run afoul of the Town Fathers. They have brought her to court contending that sexually oriented businesses are not permitted in residential areas. THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM: In order to get mentioned in her company newsletter for increased sales, the woman who managed an Ohio pizzeria had 400 large pizzas delivered to her home, and put them in her garage. In addition, while appearing to be an outstanding worker, police said she was secretly stealing $38,000 from her employer. BY POPULAR DEMAND: The students at Dover, N.H., High School, voting on their class superlatives for the yearbook, chose two lesbians as "class sweethearts." The principal disallowed the vote, but the kids protested. The decision was reversed. Mike Pingree
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