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The reverse crank call

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 4, 2010
Post category:Autobiography
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I promised a reader that I would share this story about my experience with Bob’s Furniture, a Connecticut-based discount furniture store with several locations throughout the state. Fifteen years ago,…

Connecticut automotive eccentricities

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 3, 2010
Post category:Critic
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I’ve been in Connecticut for seventeen years now, almost as long as I lived in Massachusetts, and long enough to think of myself as a resident of this place rather…

Is good food enough?

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 3, 2010
Post category:Critic Food and Drink
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Elysha and I went to Mo’s Midtown this morning for breakfast. The food was good, and Elysha actually likes their pancakes a lot, but these are several subtle oddities about…

Did we need to see the veins?

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 2, 2010
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My wife and I took Clara apple-picking at Karabin Farms. I cannot recommend this place enough. Hay rides, apple cider donuts, farm animals and lots and lots of low hanging…

You name the state

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 2, 2010
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Have you noticed that the states with the most vociferous pride tend to be the states filled with the most repulsive people?

Bad wedding advice from another white, middle aged advice columnist

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 2, 2010
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Slate V produces a regular Dear Prudence video blog in which Slate contributor Emily Yoffe attempts to pass on advice to people in need of help regarding manners and morals.…

Germans continue to win despite their defeat

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:October 1, 2010
Post category:Critic History/Politics
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A couple of my closest friends live in the town of Berlin, CT. That’s Ber-LIN. Not BER-lin. I got wondering about why the town’s name is pronounced differently than the…

This is not semantics

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 30, 2010
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It’s bad when you don’t know what you don’t know. But it’s worse when you don’t know that you don’t know what you don’t know. The message being: Humility. Follow…

Forgotten past

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 30, 2010
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This evening I spent about three hours cleaning out boxes of old letters, cards and mementos from the past. I threw out a lot (much of which made no sense…

Happy Camper

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:September 30, 2010
Post category:Autobiography Quandry
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Last week I brought my students to a YMCA camp for three days of outdoor education. On the morning of our departure, I donned a tee-shirt that featured the smiling…