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Feelin’ Blue (Musings on a Trump Presidency)
I’ve been positively sick and despondent about the election results ever since I woke up on Wednesday morning to find my phone full of incredulous WTF messages from my German friends. I almost...
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Dance Me to the End of Love*
Damn it, 2016, knock it off already. You’ve already taken Alan Rickman, Prince, Abe Vigoda, George Gaynes, Jerry Doyle, Gene Wilder, and David Bowie. And now I see in the news that you’ve also taken...
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Lost Photo Post: The Palm Beach Zoo
Here’s another one in a series of photo posts where I took a bunch of photographs, intending to make a blog post out of them, and then never got around to actually writing the post. In late August,...
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The Dog of Wisdom
One of my all time favorite memes is actually a fairly new one. The Dog of Wisdom was uploaded to YouTube in July of last year by Unklejoe, who is the creator of the web animation compilation show...
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Jerry’s Fork Drawer
Jerry left Mr. Company all the way back in January. We all knew the end was coming for our business unit, but he found another opportunity he couldn’t pass up, so he beat the rush. Once he was gone,...
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Hours could seem like days.
Today’s Nanopoblano post is kind of a cheat, because I feel like I have only a few words today. (Few words and kind of a head-ache.) Numbers, on the other hand, I have lots of. My brain doesn’t spin...
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Rentenversicherung? Isn’t that the musical with all the HIV stuff?
This statement will only be understood by a few of my readers: I mailed my V901 form about a month ago to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund in Berlin. Here’s what that means for those of you who...
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No one can tell!
The other day, I arrived home to find this little tableau at my front door. I have to wonder at the thought process of the delivery guy. Did he really think that nobody would think to look behind the...
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Lost Photo Post: Vaduz, Liechtenstein
It is once again time to add to my series of photo posts where I took a bunch of photographs, intending to make a blog post out of them, and then never got around to actually writing the post. On April...
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Singular Sensation
During the summer before my 10th grade year, my father and my brothers and I all climbed into dad’s 1986 Honda Accord, and hauled ourselves up the interstate highway into New York. We stopped briefly...
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The New Apartment Checklist
As I pack up my apartment and prepare to move for the fifth time in six years, I find that I have learned a great deal about what I don’t want in an apartment. I also have a short list now of things...
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Siblings.
Hey, remember this photograph from a few posts back? That shot was missing our sister, Michelle. My siblings and I have always been pretty close, though. We try to get together whenever we can, and...
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It’s a little bit corny.
Combat Babe mentioned a thing in a recent post about sodas and sugar free drinks, and it reminded me that I’ve never posted about my new-ish intolerance for high fructose corn syrup here in the blog....
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Khaaaaaaaaaan!
Sometimes, when I’m looking for specific information on the Internet, I stumble across truly ridiculous and hilarious memes. We all know the double rainbow guy and nyan cat, because they’re...
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
At least a third of my readers are in countries that don’t celebrate American Thanksgiving, but that’s happening today in the US and it’s going to keep me pretty busy. Because of that, I’m going to...
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With perfect clarity, I suddenly realize.
I have a memory of camping, when I was a pre-teen Boy Scout. It was the summer of 1984, and I was eleven years old. I was exiled to a week at the Camp Tanah Keeta’s summer camp for Boy Scouts in...
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The Best Of.
Watching blog statistics is an infurating hobby. I’ve been writing here now for just over five years, and no matter what I do, the same two posts are always at the top of my stats. 1) ICE, ICE,...
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Three short thoughts about hair.
Sometimes, a string of semi-random thoughts sits in my draft folder for so long that I give up on the idea that they’re part of a longer post and just use them as-is. This is one of those times....
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A Speedster, an Archer, and a Kryptonian Walk Into a Bar
I mentioned this a few posts back, but tonight is the start of a four-way crossover on all the CW network’s superhero shows. It starts towards the end of tonight’s Supergirl, continues tomorrow on...
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My Favorite Scream
Have you ever heard of the Wilhelm Scream? It’s been in over 200 movies, and it’s so recognizable that if you didn’t notice it before reading this post, I’m sure you’ll start to notice it everywhere....
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