Category: Rants
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Even More Additional Tepid Questions
When I started this blog, I made a promise to myself that I would update it daily. Sadly, daily became weekly and — wouldn’tcha know it — weekly turned into monthly. Actual work, family commitments and pure sloth take precedence. Trying to adhere to this grueling monthly schedule, I sat down at the the laptop, cracked…
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Falling Out of Love With Sports
The spark, as they say, is gone. My love affair with sports has long since reached its fever pitch and, like many a failing relationship, it’s now sustained by fleeting (albeit glorious) memories: the epic 2004 American League Championship Series. Flutie-to-Phelan. Jimmy Connors’ improbable run to the 1991 US Open semis. The 1986 Celtics only losing…
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The Following People Have Special Places Reserved In Hell
Let’s dispense with the flowery introduction…I mean, do the following people deserve a soft open? Methinks not. The title of the post kind of says it all, anyway. Hey: I get worked up over this stuff so you don’t have to. The creator of “Wag more, bark less.” This faux pearl of wisdom ostensibly would be…
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Tepid Questions, Part II
A veritable smorgasbord of things that have been gnawing away at me recently. And yes, I did spend about five minutes unsuccessfully attempting to find on the keyboard how to place the diacritics in the word “smorgasbord.” And yes, I spent another two minutes looking up what the two dots and the circle are called. Take the “Gov” off? Why…
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Improper Context
I’ve ranted before in this space about the supremely irritating doom n’ gloom attitude that has descended upon our society over the past few years, right? What, I haven’t? And what’s that? Having a hypothetical give-and-take with the reader is a supremely irritating device? Anywho… I refer, of course, to the concerned/hyper-informed/bemused mien that we…
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Tepid Questions
How do they make babies cry on TV and in movies? I know it’s not a shock when an infant or a toddler cries, but when they really need the shot and the kid’s not cooperating, what do they do? Have a stagehand don a scary mask? Poke the kid with a sharp stick? Show…
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In Honor of National Library Week, A Rant Against My Local Library
Note: Yes, National Library Week was over a month ago. Unfortunately, I started this post and became bogged down with work and wasn’t able to complete it until recently. Humor me. National Library Week — I know, it’s finally here — seeks to celebrate that often-overlooked but extremely valuable jewel in every community: the public library.…
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Poor, Misunderstood Sarcasm
The notable priest Lawrence Lovasik once said, “A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” Fyodor Dostoevsky once opined that sarcasm is “…the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.” Oscar Wilde called sarcasm “the…
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Where Are They Now? Right F%$*ing Here!
We like to think of ourselves as a well-informed society. Well, not so much in the arena of current events, geography or the fine arts…but we can all identify a photo of Snooki, which I think plays no small part in galvanizing our nation. Yes, we have become pop culture mavens, able to wax rhapsodic…
Geoff Wondering 