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URL Shortening Fail

I saw that and thought “No, it has to be my Twitter Reader.”

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Laughing at Schaudenfreud

Credit to the title, and the inspiration to this post, goes to @txvoodoo I was never a Lostie. Somewhere in my mid-twenties, my obsession with things took a weird spin and I just stopped getting my heart and soul wrapped … Continue reading

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The Start of the Feud

While Jack Benny starts his recollection with “This I actually remember, the start of the feud…”, I cannot say I remember verbatim what was said. Child violinist Stewart Canin played “Flight of the Bumblebees” on Fred Allen’s show, and Fred … Continue reading

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Sea Monsters Can’t Save This Book

I finally got around to reading and blogging about Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and it was a great big pile of meh. At first I thought it was because the co-author (not Jane Austen, the other guy, Ben … Continue reading

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The Zombification of the World

It’s a truth universally accepted that the world has a peculiar preoccupation with zombies. It’s also a truth accepted that all American high school students suffer through at least one Jane Austen novel, in their tenure through the required education. … Continue reading

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