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A brief history of my favorite musicians

By Matthew Dicks | March 11, 2010

I thought it might be fun to track the history of my favorite bands or musical acts of all-time.  Perhaps you could share yours as well. Here goes: My first favorite band was The Rolling…

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Resolution Update: February 2010

By Matthew Dicks | March 11, 2010

In an effort to achieve my yearly goals, I post my monthly progress here.  I’m eleven days late in posting, but I’ve been busy.  It slipped my mind. Below are my sixteen New Year’s resolutions…

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I told you so

By Matthew Dicks | March 11, 2010

Yesterday I declared myself the king of “I told you so,” and two friends agreed wholeheartedly. Issue some dire warning about my future or some half-baked assurance based upon your own experience,  and l will…

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Most popular at the the moment

By Matthew Dicks | March 10, 2010

One of the websites that I like best is the New York Times Most Popular page, where you can get links to the most emailed and most blogged stories from the Times, ranked in order. …

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Mystery fruit

By Matthew Dicks | March 10, 2010

My wife and I finally found a grocery app for the iPhone that works: Grocery IQ.  With this brilliant bit of code, we can update a grocery list on one phone and have that item…

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The View

By Matthew Dicks | March 9, 2010

I fail to understand how The View, which airs in the late morning when so many people are working, and which possesses such a narrowly-defined audience demographic of stay-at-home moms, ages 18-49 (72% of its…

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The Friendship Application

By Matthew Dicks | March 8, 2010

Behold the long awaited Friendship Application. There have been instances in the past year when people have been on the verge of becoming genuine friends.  This is all well and good, but what if the…

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Bartering herself into a new career? Maybe.

By Matthew Dicks | March 8, 2010

Get this: My wife stopped by a new consignment store in town and found a child-sized cashmere sweater that she loved.  The problem: Even on consignment, the sweater was fifty dollars, more than she was…

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The demise of the book tour and the rise of its replacement

By Matthew Dicks | March 7, 2010

The Los Angeles Times published a piece on how book tours have transformed over the years, and especially now in this economy.  Author Carolyn Kellogg writes: “As the business of publishing changes, book tours increasingly…

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Quitting

By Matthew Dicks | March 6, 2010

A couple days ago, I ran into a couple at the gym who I married at the gym. Though normally my role in a wedding is reserved to the disc jockey, I am also an…

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