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Posted February 19, 2013
Any Pulp Fiction fans in my readership will be familiar with the song ?Misirlou,? a badass piece of surf-rock that plays toward the beginning of the movie. Unfortunately, they might not be as familiar with Dick Dale, the Awesome Man who made that song famous. That’s a pity, because Dale’s style and onstage persona influenced
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Posted February 14, 2013
Craigslist is a modern marvel. It’s part classifieds listing, part dating site, part employment site, and part window into the sad, isolated desperation in which many of us live. Seriously, take a stroll through Missed Encounters when you’ve got some free time. It’s a cabinet of broken toys in there.
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Posted February 14, 2013
The first thing that pops into my head when I think of Medford, Oregon, other than as the last decent sized city when you leave Oregon on Interstate 5* (or first depending on your direction of travel) is private equity. A couple years ago I read an article (it was probably this or this) that
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Posted February 12, 2013
Jessica Alba makes me think of magazine covers. A quick internet search and I realize why. Yes, Jessica has been inundating my mind with her magic every time I pick up a gallon of milk, munchies or other miscellaneous sundries. If I was to believe in priming, and I?m not saying I don?t, I would
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Posted February 12, 2013
This week’s subject of Awesome Men Throughout History is a Baltimore icon, and something of a hyper-local legend for people who still remember old Baltimore (defined roughly as ?Baltimore before heavy industry went down the toilet?). His name was Abe Sherman, and I’ve been told by people who knew him that he was one of
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Posted February 7, 2013
When I think of Reno, I reminisce about one of the best bachelor parties I ever attended. I arrived Friday night with the rest of the revelers, and we all found seats at the blackjack table, drinking beers and whiskey as the ebb and flow of the cards washed over our chip stacks. The night
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Posted February 7, 2013
Baltimore’s Super Bowl victory (and the post-game interview with a very drunk Mayor Rawlings-Blake) has filled me with unusual amounts of civic pride, so I thought I’d take this week’s Self Made Men column to talk about a local entrepreneur: Durkee Enterprises founder Frank Durkee.
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Posted February 5, 2013
This may be the first year I didn?t watch the Super Bowl in its entirety. Even when I lived in Ireland and the game started after midnight, I found time and interest to watch it. However, this year, fantasy football broke me at last. I couldn?t watch a game without thinking about statistics instead of
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Posted February 5, 2013
In honor of the Super Bowl (go Ravens!), this week’s Awesome Men Throughout History will focus on a man whose accomplishments as a football coach have made him something of a folk hero in American culture: Vince Lombardi. Lombardi coached the New York Giants, the Green Bay Packers (who transformed from a joke into an
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Posted January 31, 2013
Most of this column’s featured self-starters, especially those who’ve used the Internet to establish themselves, have been fairly serious, earnest, business-oriented people. This is not the case for Rich ?Lowtax? Kyanka, creator of comedy website Something Awful, which has become one of the keystones of Internet culture since 1999, when the site was first founded.
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Posted January 31, 2013
Part of the reason that I?ve started this series is because I have been on road trips and had no clue where I should go to eat. It?s past nine o?clock, I?m dirt tired and I need to get started by 6 am the next morning, so I barely have time to eat, shit, shower
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