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Posted November 5, 2013
Internet humor is built on sarcasm, vulgarity, non-sequiturs, cultural references both mainstream and obscure, and irony, but it’s rare that anyone masters all of these things at once. Most Internet humorists focus on one of the above qualities and run with it until they shut down for no reason (Homestar Runner), stop being funny altogether
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Posted November 1, 2013
Grand Junction, Colorado makes me think of the NFL. My friend Andy used to live there and he invited me to visit in early 2000. He?s a Vikings fan and I?m a Rams fan. So, in that magical Rams season, I watched that playoff shootout between our two teams at a Grand Junction bar. After
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Posted October 29, 2013
Giovanni Aldini isn’t a name that gets thrown around much anymore, and that’s really a crying shame. For one thing, he did a lot of important work in the late 1700s/early 1800s studying the medical uses of electric current; things like electroshock therapy and deep brain stimulation are based on his original findings. Sidenote: his
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Posted October 29, 2013
I thought about Bryce Dallas Howard in my last top five when I looked at the movies of Anna Kendrick as they both starred in ?The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,?* a movie I will probably never see. However, with those two and several more good-looking people, it does tempt me a little. Still it doesn?t quite
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Posted October 24, 2013
The name Ralph Lauren has become so ubiquitous over the past few decades that it’s hard to imagine him as a real person, let alone an entrepreneur. But he was one, and still is one to some degree or another. He might be at the helm of a vast fashion empire now, but there was
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Posted October 22, 2013
It may surprise some of you to learn that comics and comix are two very different things. It certainly surprised me, and I take pride in knowing about weird trivia like this.
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Posted October 17, 2013
Like many people my age, I used to have anxiety about ordering pizza over the phone. It makes me sound like a total ninny, and I’m sure my Great Depression-surviving grandfather is in Heaven rolling his eyes at me right now, but it’s true. Just try passing the phone around the next time you and
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Posted October 16, 2013
Modern masculinity is in pretty miserable shape, I have to say. The only roads to perceived manhood these days are ignorance, misogyny (this means you, men’s rights activists), immaturity, or some combination thereof.
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Posted October 15, 2013
As I mentioned last week, it?s time to take a look at the movies of Anna Kendrick. Her top two movies were an easy decision, though which one ended up #1 was a bit tougher. However, further down the list, I found one that looked like a no-brainer to add. It has Robert Redford, star
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Posted October 10, 2013
I?m heading off to Utah later this fall in order to meet some friends for a bit of hiking and maybe some fly-fishing. I may try to make the drive in one day, but if I need to hit work before I leave L.A., I may have to stop for the night and a good
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