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December 17, 2013 Tuesday 10: Non-Christmas Movies Set Around Christmas
I take a lot of flak from people when I say Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie. “It’s not a Christmas movie! It only takes place at Christmas!” they say. I figure any movie that includes “Christmas in Hollis” on the soundtrack is a Christmas movie, but whatever. I guess it’s not a real […]
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December 16, 2013 Lady Gaga & The Muppets’ Holiday Spectacular
There are few people my age, I wager, who didn’t love John Denver’s Christmas special with The Muppets. According to Wikipedia, it aired in 1979 and isn’t available on home video of any sort, which I think is a travesty of national proportions. However, the fact that most of us can remember the “FIVE. GOLD. […]
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December 13, 2013 XBox One Three Weeks In
So how is it? I know you’re waiting to hear so you can decide if you want to go get one and you can’t believe it has taken me this long to get around to it. Short version: it’s fine. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about it, and I even sort of understand some […]
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December 10, 2013 Tuesday 10: Harry Potter Characters
Last night my wife and I finished a watch-through of the Harry Potter movies, her first time through them. She loved them! It’s my third time seeing them and I enjoy them more each time. It’s great to watch the actors grow up in the roles just like the characters grow up in the stories, […]
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December 9, 2013 Too Cool For School
I’ve been singing in choirs and groups for as far back as I can remember. I don’t have a “solo voice,” but I can blend pretty well with other people, so groups are my thing. In all those years of classes and practices, I picked up some things here and there about music theory, but […]
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