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Cheesy, over-the-top, obnoxious nonsense

How does one possibly explain this? Is it a Miami thing?    Or a Miami Heat thing? Or a Lebron James thing? I spent some time this morning viewing several other NBA team’s introduction videos (many of them can be found on YouTube), and unlike the Heat’s video, every one that I watched featured highlights from…

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Resolution update: 2011 in review

The following is the December update and end-of-year review of my 2011 New Year’s resolutions. I am currently in the process of deciding upon my 2012 goals and will post them later in the day. Of my twenty-one New Years resolutions established at the beginning of 2011, fifteen were successfully completed. One was partially completed,…

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Skype and Facebook do not mitigate the absence of a loved one, and it was stupid of Roger Angell to assert otherwise

I am going to criticize the maudlin sensibility and shortsightedness of this The New Yorker piece tomorrow, but for now, I ‘d like to take issue with Roger Angell’s lament over the loss of soldiers writing actual letters from the battlefield. Angell writes: Twenty years ago, many of us got a whole new sense of…

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My awkward, uncomfortable gay moment

From a piece in The Daily Beast: Eric Dondero, a former longtime aide to the representative, has written a post at Rightwing News defending Ron Paul against charges of racism and anti-Semitism but also acknowledging that the congressman is “personally uncomfortable” around gay people. My first reaction upon reading the piece was to laugh out…

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Six months later, the New York Times finds a whole need breed of douchebags to quote about wrist watches

Six months ago, the New York Times published a piece about the unexpected ascension of wrist watches in certain segments of the cell phone generation. Somehow they found men willing to say things like this: “In certain circles,” Mr. Thoreson said, “if you don’t have a substantial timepiece with some pedigree, you feel like you’re…

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Maximum joy

My daughter says that her cousin is her best friends. Based upon this photograph, I believe her.

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The story of our engagement

Today is Elysha and my engagement-versary.  On December 28, 2004, I proposed to Elysha in Grand Central Station while twenty-two friends and family secretly watched. Here is the story of that day. 

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Outsourcing my New Year’s resolutions: Would you like to play a role?

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I take my goal setting and New Year’s resolutions very seriously. At the end of every month I post the progress of each of my New Year’s resolutions, and I am tough on myself when I fail to achieve my goals. I’d…

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How a fan of Boston sports fell in love with the Yankees

Robert Krulwich writes about how we become fans of the teams that we love. Based upon the research, it tends to be a love instilled upon us primarily by our fathers. This video demonstrates this fact beautifully, if not a little cruelly. My father and my step-father were not sports fans. Neither ever spoke a…

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