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A blog by Matthew Dicks

Pouty Sanchez

By Matthew Dicks | November 7, 2010

Tim Graham of ESPN writes: The Jets want Mark Sanchez to stop pouting. To force Sanchez into acting as regal as a franchise quarterback should, offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and backup quarterback Mark Brunell have…

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Defeated by the elderly

By Matthew Dicks | November 6, 2010

In a follow-up to the post about my lack of cultural awareness comes this evening’s revelation that my wife’s 88-year-old grandmother is more culturally aware than either one of us.  On our way home from…

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Can’t imagine why I am not universally adored

By Matthew Dicks | November 6, 2010

I am a direct person, and I have always considered this quality to be an asset. Furthermore, I have always had difficulty understanding why anyone in my life would not also appreciate the quality in…

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Spiders in a Volkswagen

By Matthew Dicks | November 5, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote about the best gift that I have ever received, and it included a story about my friend, Tom, and his fear of spiders. In the flurry of tweets and…

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Cartoon babe?

By Matthew Dicks | November 4, 2010

Was Scooby Doo’s Daphne actually hot, or was her hotness the result of her juxtaposition to the dreadful looking and more dreadfully named Velma?

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Simple and doable

By Matthew Dicks | November 4, 2010

Here is the best solution that I have seen to my recent electronic voting rant: Brilliant idea

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I don’t know who Snooky is or if Lady Gaga wore a meat dress, but I’m probably happier than you.

By Matthew Dicks | November 4, 2010

My wife and I do not watch very much television. Last night, for example, I watched the fourth quarter of the Celtics game.  Otherwise the television did not go on. The night before that, the…

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Knitting not allowed (because I’m jealous)

By Matthew Dicks | November 3, 2010

I’m hesitant to say that I’ve discovered a new phenomenon, because perhaps it’s been around for a while and I’m just horribly inattentive. I’ve missed other, fairly obvious cultural changes before, so it’s not uncommon.…

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Best news from our little bundle of joy

By Matthew Dicks | November 3, 2010

On a night when I received stunningly good news about deals that we accepted from Spanish and Italian publishers for my partial manuscript, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, the best news of all came while…

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Inexplicable engineering stupidity

By Matthew Dicks | November 2, 2010

Could someone please explain to me how the banking industry manages to flawlessly dispense millions of dollars in cash each day from the thousands of ATM machines around the country, all the while providing every…

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