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September 3, 2013 Tuesday 8: Lists I’ll Never Be Able To Do
Long about 9:30 on Monday nights, I start getting panicky about what list I could do for the Tuesday 10. Sometimes I’ll put a call out on Twitter and get lots of suggestions… but they’re usually something I’d can’t do for one reason or another. Last night this topic got suggested to me, and I […]
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August 23, 2013 Mandy
If you’ve come here looking for Barry Manilow songs, you’re about to be disappointed. I knew Mandy Patinkin as a singer a long while before I knew him as an actor. His self-titled album is the first CD I ever bought, and I still have it to this day. It wasn’t until someone showed me […]
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August 20, 2013 Tuesday Eight: Newspaper Comics
The Internet has changed comicry forever, but growing up all we had was the newspaper. Whenever the local paper would take a poll to see what was popular and what wasn’t, it was a very stressful time for me. We often lost brilliant strips because the (usually older) votes “didn’t understand it” or “didn’t think […]
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August 16, 2013 Elysium
Remember that issue where Richie Rich built a huge orbiting space station and then went to live there and never invited any of his poor friends up to hang out? Neill Blomkamp made it into a movie. Now, it’s actually been a long time (30+ years) since I read a Richie Rich comic, so I don’t […]
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