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Music Video Monday: A Tour De Force of ’80s Videos

If you were breathing during the ’80s, you will remember these songs and videos. If you weren’t yet alive and walking around, you may recognize some tunes from this thing they used to call the radio, which plays random songs … Continue reading

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The Nikon D-50 of Infinite Beauty ($200 or best offer)

It’s wrong to say that this camera can make a plain-looking person look good. With enough practice, you can wield the Nikon D-50 of Infinite Beauty and turn a random man with a mustache into Tom-freaking-Selleck. Puny little point-and-shoot cameras … Continue reading

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Gertrude Stein is a literary TRAIN WRECK

I know the name Gertrude Stein, and understand that she is some kind of Giant of Literature. (It’s pronounced “lit-rah-SURE, by the way, if you want to be all snobby and lame.) HOWEVER: For the first time, I’ve read actual … Continue reading

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The Red Pen of Doom guts THE NOTEBOOK

THE NOTEBOOK (The title makes sense, since the story turns on an actual notebook.) by Nicholas Sparks Chapter One: Miracles Who am I? And how,I wonder, will this story end? The sun has come up and I am sitting by … Continue reading

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