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I just can’t get enough of this Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger CD. See my previous entry about it - I was right about it being a “grower”. I thought for sure that Twin Cinema would be my favorite album of the year, but this one has slowly overtaken it. Yeah, [...]

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Tomorrow is Launch Day for the new Xbox 360 videogame system (mainstream media review here). I always have to have the latest new gadgets, especially video game systems, and I’ve thought long and hard about buying a 360 on Launch Day. But ultimately I’ve decided I’m not going to do it.
Reasons I’m Not [...]

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I don’t often wade into political/religious waters, but this is very important to me…
I was happy to read this week that a Vatican official refuted “Intelligent Design” (take that, Kansas). As an ex-Catholic, I don’t have much truck with the church these days, nor do I care much about what they think. But [...]

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The intrusive banners trumpeting the exciting breaking investigations from the local news continue to intrude on the popular network shows during Sweeps Month. From Wed night’s Lost:

I didn’t watch the advertised special report on teaching bachelors how to date, though I’m sure I could’ve used the advice. From the commercials, it appeared [...]

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Quick Note: Do not miss this week’s episode of South Park. They skewer a certain pseudo-religion that’s popular with celebrities, like they did with the Mormons a few years ago. And only two people worked on the entire episode: John Smith and Jane Smith. Amazing!
And good thing I watch Best Week Ever, [...]

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During lunch today, one of my co-workers ordered a Diet Pepsi, saying that he was saving his daily non-diet drink allocation for an event tonight where he wanted to be drinking the fully sugared version. The rest of us all thought this was unusual - this switching between artificial sweeteners and sugar. As [...]

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