Category: Personal
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Another travelogue from Italy. This stop: the Colosseum, Forum, and Capitoline Museum.
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Marcus Agrippa Made This
The Pantheon was the most impressive sight of my entire Italian vacation. I can’t explain exactly why.
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Observations of a Urine-Soaked Tourist
The start of my travelogues from my Italian vacation. First stop: general observations of Rome.
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Kindling, plus my dream machine
I’m not buying one of Amazon’s Kindles until it comes with these features. And until Apple makes it.
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Revolting Developments
I was going to make some kind of comment to the effect that the reason the Colonials on “Battlestar Galactica” need Cylon technology so much is to enable all their faster-than-light jumps over sharks. But I thought better of it, partly because “jumping the shark” is such a tired expression now, but also because “twirling…
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Body Fuzion
Hey, speaking of old video and VCR effects, here’s one of my favorite things they’ve ever done on “Saturday Night Live,” “Body Fuzion:” The best part (apart from the music) is how Drew Barrymore looks like she can’t deliver a line without cracking up. Also: “Penthels!”
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Two Thousand Eight
I realize that year-end “best of” posts only make sense for bloggers who get paid by the post (and just barely even then), but it’s a good way to acknowledge that the year wasn’t all bad, and give a call out out to the stuff that was excellent. Plus, it gives me one more opportunity…
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And Santa Can Be Our Regular Saturday Night Thing
I know it’s been done before, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for tradition. Here’s wishing everybody (including Mr. Swayze himself) the haziest, laziest, Swayziest Christmas of them all. Pain don’t hurt, everyone! Pain don’t hurt us one and all.
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I Tell You What
Georgia’s changed so much in the 13 or so years since I moved away, that there’s not much left there that I miss. One thing I do miss is the accent, or at least my own version of it. I never listen to myself talking (because, you know, I’m kind of boring), so I have…