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By Soup Can Sam, staff astrologist
Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20)
It’s that time again — a time of reflection, rejection and
then back to the refection after spending one wyear,
four months and twenty-two days trying to find a job
you are probably overqualified for. And you still didn’t
get it. Whatever you do, don’t pawn off the camping
gear — you may need it sooner rather than later.
A rie s (M a rch 21-A p ril 20) It gets harder and
harder to tell the future. Soup Can hasn’t slept In days
— the pills and booze and weeklong binge on cough
syrup has led to some interesting insights. A lot of
poetry that seemed profound at the time. Looking
back, it really isn’t all that profound at all — just a
sticky notebook with a bunch of chicken scratches.
Don’t be fooled by the drugs and bad poetry written in
the same manner by a Beat Generation who tricked
everyone into thinking that if you get really high and
write that you’ll contribute something to society. You
won’t, they didn’t. Point being — don’t waste a good
high on writing or reading bad poetry.
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T a u ru s (A p ril 21-M a y 20) Everyone on three:
Karma, karma, karma chameleon ...red, gold and
green. I’m man a man without conviction. I am without
conviction. I ’m a man who doesn’t know. You come
and go, karma, karma, karma chameleon. Channel
your inner Boy George this week and remember every
day is like survival and people are your lovers, not
your rivals.
your shoulders side to side. Just try to understand
G e m in i (M a y 2 1 -J u n e 2 1 ) There’s always
(understand). I’m giving all I can. Borderline... Feels
something, somewhere, somehow up over the
like I ’m going to lose my mind. Keep on pushing my
horizon. March on. One foot after another until you
love over the borderline. Feel it, yo.
reach the next point of understanding that there’s just
another horizon after this one, and then another. Try to
S c o rp io (O c t.2 4 -N o v . 2 2 ) It’s hard to say what’s
live in the present the best you can and keep your
best, and to be honest, I’m not sure if it’s even
possible to think of something clever to say to you. It’s
eyes open. The future is nothing more than something
C a n c e r (J u n e 2 2 -J u ly 2 2 ) Papa don’t preach, I
been losing sleep. Like it or not, I’m keeping my baby.
Serious.
44. "Hold o n a _ ! "
45. infomercials, e.g.
46. clobber
47. Larry, Moe, and Curly
49. secrets
52. monk haircut
53. pigged out
54. infinite
55. strikes out
56. Mexican bread
57. trapers
Down
1. brief pieces of writing
2. vibrating effect
3. complex
4. foretell, forecast, forebode
5. "guilty," e.g.
6.
we forget"
7. "_q u am vid e ri" (North
Carolina's motto)
8. hot spot
9. to believe, desire, or trust
10. thankless wretch
S a g itta riu s (N ov. 2 3 -D e c .2 3 ) It’s a brave new
world. Be brave. And if you’re doing what you can do,
when you do it. Perfecto. That’s all you can do. Don’t
L e o (J u ly 2 3 -A u g . 2 3 ) If all you’re doing is
fixating on what he said, she said, you’ll never really
let anyone tell you different, especially that boring,
nagging ass partner who keeps making you question
accomplish anything except finding out what they said
after someone else said that he said she wuz talking
some smack about brat ass. Know what I’m saying?
Stop being a brat, you brat.
yourself. Leave it. Really, like, yesterday. If you’re
living alone, single, enjoy it. There will always be that
time in the future you wish you had what you had right
now. Make the most it.
V irg o (A u g . 2 4 -S e p t. 2 2 ) Here’s the thing. The
more you look inside yourself, the less you’ll find.
C a p ric o rn (D e c . 2 4 -J a n . 1 9 ) It occurs to Soup
There’s nothing there. You’ve gone around and around
Can, as things do now and again, that ye old record
collection needs an update. Bad karma lies in them
and around trying to understand the meaning behind it
all. Oh, wait, what? It’s all around you? Serious? Yes,
serious. Pull your head out of your stubborn ass and
grooves.
throw away the self-help books. It’s time to live.
A q u a riu s (J a n . 2 0 -F e b . 19) Pace yourself.
You’ve got a long life ahead, although it might not all
L ib ra (S e p t. 2 3 -O c t. 2 3 ) It’s time to have an ‘80s
dance party in your heart — like right now. Yep. On
the bus, in the grocery store, at work, on a break,
having a nice lunch. You must be a lucky star. Start
tapping those feet, give a stranger a smile and move
be on this earth. By the time you’re in your 70s,
interplanetary travel will become safer than an I-5
By Kreeg Peeples
Across
1. bottle closer
8. to put aside
13. Louisana bom
14. it regained independence in
1991
16. remedy
17. temporary makeshift
18. mimic
19. bars
20. bishop of Rome
21. "Tarzan" extra
22. appear
23. what "yo mama" is
25.27, to 3
27. Tiger starts here
28. attractively old-fashioned
31. always, in verse
32. smaller in quantity
33. more, in Madrid
36. acts of seceding
40. "Rocks"
41. luxurious
42. a Muse
going to be one shitty week. There’s really no other
way to' put it. Do your best.
you make up in your head.
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Puzzles
Feb. 18, 2011
11. bride-to-be
t2. bartender
14. to show to be valid or true
15. bones of the middle ear
24. beauties
25. blows to the head
26. impulses
29. employers of power
30. Ashtabula's lake
33. error
34. common solvent
35. alternates
37. customer
38. recount
39. job for a speech coach
43. haunt
45. fits
48. Christiania, now
49; northern Atlantic food fish
50. beehive, convection, e.g. •,
51. plural of velum
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