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My favorite podcast, The Distraction, is coming to an end. Drew Magary and David Roth, id and superego, have spent over a decade together talking about sports but also life, and sandwiches and guys they remember and the deranged ways Tim Marchman cooks chicken. It’s been hitting me hard this…
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School just got out and you’re ready to be a Problem: You went to Old Chicago to beat the heat and the mozzarella sticks just arrived: There’s good stuff at the farmer’s market: Everybody’s going to the skate park: Something important just dawned on you: The sunlight is scattered and…
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“In the drowsy dark caves of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.” – Rabinandrath Tagore The backrooms in Backrooms could be metaphors for a lot of different things. This reads to me as an intentional choice on the part of the filmmakers, for a…
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They got me again. Jessie’s story coming full circle, with her realization of how much she meant to Emily by way of finding Emily’s daughter Jessie’s time capsule, not only poignantly closed the loop on the very good but devastating part of the Toy Story 2 narrative about how we…
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We had a massive hail storm yesterday. It damaged the roof and broke a basement window. When we went outside to see how the garden held up (not completely obliterated), I saw a little bird sitting stock still on the fence rail. It didn’t move when we came close to…
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“It seemed to him the problem was he was smart enough to ask the question but not smart enough to answer it. Then he thought maybe that goes for the entire human race.” A little boy named Harold sits in his third-grade classroom in the mid-1960s and daydreams, when he’s…
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The Empire has fallen, but its remnants cling to power on the Outer Rim of the galaxy. The job of mopping up these remnants has been left to Republic Colonel Sigourney Weaver, and she’s gonna need all the bounty hunters and their adorable sidekicks/surrogate alien children she can find to…
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Trapped in a meaningless cycle of work, commuting, and isolation, a young worker in a busy Japanese city notices a man on his subway car brutally berating a young mother for her baby’s crying. Disturbed by the display, but paralyzed by fear and inertia, he turns away and blocks out…
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I’ve been using search engines for nigh on three decades of my life at this point. A search engine is a tool you use to help you find something that is true. Truth, because it has meaning, cannot be delivered by a machine, it’s got to be arrived at via…
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Bosnia AND Herzegovina? In this economy?
Soup Is Good Food 