Category: Personal

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Real-Life ER Drama

I visited the ER many times as an accident-prone kid – and a couple of times as a still-accident-prone adult – almost always for stitches, almost always somewhere in my head, to the point that one time, after seeing it done so often, my mother got medieval and fashioned her own butterfly stitch for one

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Profiling Jehovah’s Witnesses

“Game recognizes game.” Or in this case, former Jehovah’s Witnesses recognize current ones. There’s a youngish couple in our building that I pegged as JWs a while back and finally had my J-dar confirmed when they came knocking during the Jets game yesterday. Something about the way they carried themselves rang familiar, but it was

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Review: Worldwatch #3

With Marvel not publishing a single thing of interest to me this week, I decided to throw an extra $3 towards an indie comic I’d never read before and let me preface its review with this offer: the first person I don’t know personally to leave a comment here, I’ll mail it to you, bagged

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Did Ni Imu Abe Imu.

What to do? I haven’t really had any compelling desire to blog lately, what with my decision to not bash the holidays this year, things at work in flux yet again, and Comic Book Commentary getting most of my writing attention these days. So much so that I’ve lost interest in the previously announced Anecdotal

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Pumpkin Seeds: Gonzalez’s Twelve Edition

1. The difference between sanity and insanity is whether or not you do what the voices tell you. 2. If you know you’re a sore loser, it’s best not to answer the phone for an hour or so after your team loses the game you talked so much trash about. 3. Don’t tell my wife

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Pumpkin Seeds: STFU! Edition

1. Democrats whining about the election. It’s pretty clear there were various problems across the country, as there always have been, but crying foul-play after your guy limply threw in the towel and disappeared is self-flagellation at its most annoying. Screw Kerry, deal with reality and start working on fixing the system that stuck us

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Parenting isn’t all rainbows and butterflies!

Last night’s Desperate Housewives had an interesting subplot centering on the stay-at-home mom character – the one with the hyper twins and an infant, and possibly a fourth kid? – and how she ends up having a nervous breakdown from the stress of it all. There’s a moment towards the end, when she’s talking to

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Damn ABC and their addictive Sunday night lineup!

How am I supposed to ease into the beginning of a new week, following an exciting afternoon of football, when I can’t get away from the TV from 7-11pm? Scoff if you like, but America’s Funniest Home Videos is funny as hell. Tom Bergeron is no Bob Saget, thank god, and who couldn’t benefit from

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Pumpkin Seeds: 11 Shots to the Dome Edition

1. The Incredibles, in a word was, what the hell, INCREDIBLE! Seriously; like “the Oscar goes to…,” Best Picture kind of incredible. “The Oscar goes to…,” Best Director kind of incredible. “The Oscar goes to…,” Best Original Screenplay kind of incredible. It had more emotional depth than most live-action movies, and absolutely blows the doors

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Happy Birthday, Salomé! If our friends Danny and Xia are like a CBS sitcom, as he suggests, then I’m thinking Salomé and I are like the Jeffersons. Louise Jefferson is a warm-hearted person. Her personality is completely opposite from that of her husband George, who is quick-tempered and opinionated. She is levelheaded where George is

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