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Hardy? Hardly.
Summer in Portland, Oregon is generally a glorious time. From June to August, the rainfall is negligible at best (we often see about a half inch of rain in July compared to around 7 in December). The sunshine is the decadent reward for enduring week upon week of grayness and drizzle. Even still, the worst…
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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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Amazing But True: These People Have Never Hosted SNL
As the 456th season of Saturday Night Live winds down, I’m taking stock of where the show is at. No, I’m not one of those dinosaurs that laments how far the show has fallen from its “heyday” of the original cast (check the tape, folks – it was just as hit-or-miss then as it has been in…
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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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This Week in Embarrassing Wikipedia Excerpts
From the entry for Michael Chambers, AKA Boogaloo Shrimp, star of cult classics Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo: “He also appeared in such films as Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and as a dancing robot in the 1999 film Dudley Do-Right. He also appeared as Urkel-Bot in a 1991 episode of Family Matters, again…
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Remake These Movies (?)
You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…
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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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