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Posted September 7, 2012
I was a tad confused and semi concerned when I started reading my friends posts on Facebook a few days ago. ?Going to battle zombies? and ?15 hours until the apocalypse? were just two of the cryptic messages my friend happened to post during the week. I didn?t know whether she was going to a
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Posted September 6, 2012
I lived in western Nebraska when I was five years old. During that time, my family took a trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Rapid City. I don?t remember much of that time, but I do remember sitting in the front seat of a car without a seat belt. Times have changed,
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Posted September 6, 2012
I’m writing this installment of Self Made Men on a laptop computer, and you’re probably reading it on one (I don’t know how TSB interacts with smartphones, so just bear with me). Laptops are fairly ubiquitous at this point, but they didn’t just leap fully-formed from the R&D departments of Apple, Gateway, or Dell. They’ve
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Posted September 5, 2012
How do you know if something is real? How do you know if someone, something or sometime is real within a movie? For some of Jennifer Lawrence?s movies, it?s easy. There are no mutants with superpowers in the world. (Though the geek in me adds the caveat, ?Yet,? and the skeptic says, ?That?s not the
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Posted September 4, 2012
Mel Brooks is not only long overdue for a spot in the ranks of Awesome Men Throughout History, he’s done enough in his life to count as several Awesome Men. Throughout his exceptionally long career in show business, he’s been a film director, a screenwriter, a composer/lyricist, a standup comedian, a producer, and?showing just what
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Posted August 30, 2012
My only experience with Detroit came on a road trip from Chicago to see Tiger Stadium before it closed shop. On that weekend, I got to enjoy a game under the shade of the second level behind first base and one from the upper level of the outfield bleachers. Besides those games, all I remember
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Posted August 30, 2012
So apparently there were a lot of noteworthy people named Bill Graham. Too many, actually. So far I’ve counted three boxers, one professional wrestler, two politicians (one Canadian, one Australian), an evangelist who loved Richard Nixon, and a jazz saxophonist, among others. Consequently, it took a minute for me to come with anything about the
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Posted August 29, 2012
If you?re worried exercising will cut too much into your daily Xbox routine, fear not lethargic dude. According to a study published in the American Journal of Physiology, you can stay fit by working out just 30 minutes a day. Just think. You can get in shape and still have time to blast Nazi zombies.
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Posted August 28, 2012
When was the last time a filmmaker was the topic of this column? Was it recently? I can’t remember after having done so many of these, and frankly it’s getting difficult for me to remember other stuff too. What day is it? Where am I? Whose pants am I wearing? Those are all questions for
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Posted August 28, 2012
What is the tipping point to make sure you see a movie? Is it just the subject? Is it the director? Is the writer? Is it the actors? Or is it some combination of all of those things and more and when it reaches a critical mass, you know you?ll be going to see it?
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Posted August 24, 2012
College has changed a lot since I graduated, but two things remain the same: 1) students are stupidly crazy for Dave Matthews Band and 2) students lead super unhealthy lifestyles. While I won?t go into detail about my thoughts on ?Dave? (I like a few tunes, but don?t get the rabid fanhood), I do feel
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