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Death by Stereo
Former child actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38 of an apparent drug overdose. We eagerly await the flood of handwringing articles about the travails of troubled child stars as well as the...
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Gaming at the End of the Universe
The recent installation of a home wireless network (motivated by my wife’s acquisition of a spiffy new netbook) put an end to two years of hotswapping our DSL modem between our PC and our Xbox 360....
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Gaming at the End of the World: As the Hawk Flies
Rare is the person whose heart doesn’t harbor some deeply personal creative fantasy–be it writing the great American novel, transforming a run-down bit of parkland into a thing of beauty, or opening a...
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Tales of Culinary Madness: The Shortest Ribs of All
As a child I was a paste eater. As an adult I lived an entire year on nothing but caramel bullseyes and canned ice tea. I have consumed many things in my lifetime; some of which even bore a remote...
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Tales of Culinary Madness: Pink Turns to Blue
I spent a significant portion of my senior year of high school — a mythical time when Debbie Gibson electrified the nation’s youth and acid wash jeans were the height of fashion — tooling around...
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Tales of Culinary Madness: My Dinner With Lorelei
The “slow food” movement emphasizes careful preparation and choice of ingredients as a response to modern society’s self-destructive tendency towards instant gastronomical gratification. It’s a noble...
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