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...weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife and scissors--and no anesthetic. "The doctor told me that they save anesthetic for the battlefield," he recalls...
...remarkably pleasing. Atwood contributes a delicious, melancholy first-person piece about what it's like to be a young girl who turns into a yellow-eyed, red-clawed monster. Mitchell, who was short-listed for this year's Booker Prize, spins a yarn about a man searching for the knife that killed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. China Miville--who, as a science-fiction writer, comes from the gangster side of the equation--chimes in with a gorgeously creepy, almost indescribable story about city streets that turn restless and feral and wrestle one another...
Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony” and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...
...weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife and scissors?and no anesthetic. "The doctor told me that they save anesthetic for the battlefield," he recalls...
...Leatherman 830040 New Wave Multi-Tool with nylon sheath, $70, packs pliers, wire cutters, bit drivers, a saw, a serrated knife and more into one compact unit. At amazon.com