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Read more about the article Naked donut run or embarrassing tattoo on your bottom?

Naked donut run or embarrassing tattoo on your bottom?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 3, 2011
  • Post category:Quandry/Television
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Which is worse? A man forced to run around the parking lot naked in front of his coworkers with a donut affixed to a uniquely suited appendage… …or a man…

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Read more about the article Bittersweet

Bittersweet

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 2, 2011
  • Post category:Family
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While I was away at for three days at a YMCA camp with my students, my father-in-law took some photographs of my little girl and sent them to me. I…

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Read more about the article Resolution update: September 2011

Resolution update: September 2011

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 1, 2011
  • Post category:New Year's Resolutions
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1.  Lose 23 pounds, bringing me down to my high school track and field weight. I am still down exactly 21 pounds as of this morning.  Three days spent at…

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Read more about the article Elmo

Elmo

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 1, 2011
  • Post category:Film/Television
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I would’ve never given this film or its trailer a moment of my time prior to the birth of my daughter. After witnessing the insanity of the Tickle Me Elmo…

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Read more about the article Before getting married, ask yourself this:

Before getting married, ask yourself this:

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:October 1, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Idea
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It’s a picturesque Friday afternoon in mid-September. I am supposed to play golf with friends immediately after work and then join my wife and daughter for dinner at a restaurant…

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Marcel Proust’s childhood sucked

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 30, 2011
  • Post category:Autobiography/Critic
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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book.” - Marcel Proust As a lover of books and an…

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Andy Rooney and I have similar thoughts on sleep

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 30, 2011
  • Post category:Idea
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Rooney and I are both exceedingly efficient when it comes to sleeping. We can sleep anywhere, regardless of comfort, and we can fall asleep almost immediately. Rooney seems to enjoy…

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Read more about the article Not exactly potty training…

Not exactly potty training…

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 29, 2011
  • Post category:Family
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… but it’s a start. This is my daughter’s new potty, which she specifically requested after watching some kids begin to use the potty at school. My wife and I…

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My solution to the soul-crushing nature of meetings

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 29, 2011
  • Post category:Idea
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You’re in a meeting. The meeting is crushing your soul, as most meetings do. You’ve already scanned the agenda and marked the items that could have been handled through a…

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Read more about the article Male self-deception is a beautiful thing. Sincerely.

Male self-deception is a beautiful thing. Sincerely.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:September 28, 2011
  • Post category:Idea/Science
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From a New York Times piece on recent testosterone research: This is probably not the news most fathers want to hear. Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive…

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