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Bare Knuckled Beatdowns From a Philistine and a Couple of Seamen

February 24, 2009 – 10:30 am
It probably doesn’t come off here on the blog—where my demeanor is for the most part pleasant and my tone generally positive—but I have a temper. Amongst my friends I’ve long held a reputation for being somewhat like The Incredible Hulk, prone to furiously voluminous outbursts at inopportune moments. So much so in […]
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The Alpinism’s Bumpin’, But I Need the Volume Higher

November 6, 2008 – 10:30 am
Like many Americans I’m still in a bit of a trance after the momentous events of November 4th. My wonderment at the fact that an overwhelming number of my fellow citizens voted for progress by supporting our first African American president is tempered by sadness that a whole bunch of them in a handful […]
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A Miracle of Modern Science

September 23, 2008 – 10:30 am
As proven by yesterday’s post (and my support for Barack Obama) I love a good (and possibly t-shirt-ready) slogan. As it happens, today’s featurees, Brooklyn-based avant-garde Rock quintet TV On the Radio, happen to have (unwittingly) provided me with a striking, and unprecedentedly practical, slogan a few years ago. During late Summer of ‘06 I […]
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How Much Depth Can You Accept?

June 18, 2008 – 10:24 am
All that talk of ghosts and music yesterday took on a whole new meaning after an intercontinental discussion with one of my closest homegirls last night. See, she was visited by a ghost this weekend… The ghost of a former lover which left her haunted in her own unique way. I’m not talking […]
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“It means they changed something…”

November 1, 2007 – 10:58 am
It could be argued that the 1999 sci-fi/action film The Matrix, while derivative of earlier films, comics, and other literature, contributed much to modern American pop-culture. Without The Matrix Wuxiá cinema probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the renaissance it had on these shores (and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping certainly wouldn’t have gotten as many high […]
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