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I violated my no non-Oscar non-MTV award show rule on Sunday by watching the Emmy Awards. Since I didn’t watch the MTV Video Music Awards this year, I figure it’s a wash. And I didn’t really watch it so much as record it and then fast-forward through the commercials, acceptance speechs, pleas, and [...]

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I don’t recall this particular phrase as being a Doors lyric, though maybe Jim said it at some point. Or maybe “Doors” doesn’t refer to the band?
Or maybe… Jim’s shade is communicating with us…?
Latre.

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The federal government’s response to the potentially disastrous situation was swift, decisive and completely planned out ahead of time. Everyone knew exactly what they had to do and they did it. Funding and resources were allocated appropriately. The team was quickly assembled and sprung into action to avert the crisis.
Ah, only on [...]

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The big news today, of course, is the announcement last night of the bizarre new one-handed controller for Nintendo’s yet-to-be-released next-gen video game console (codenamed “Revolution”, but that could change). I think it’s safe to say that this thing caught the gaming press by surprise. It looks like a TV remote control, but [...]

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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m having a really hard time trying to think of things to talk about this week. Actually, there are lots of things I want to talk about (stupid Broncos), but not right now. So here’s more trivial stuff.
Let’s see… I’m really enjoying the Maximo [...]

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I mean it. I’ve been fooling myself for years, but I’ve just recently come to the conclusion that I don’t like the herb cilantro. There, I’m finally admitting it to myself and everyone else. Since Mexican food (or at least Tex Mex) is pretty popular around here, it ends up getting used [...]

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