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This Test Sort of Goes To 11
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On the 11th Episode of The Test , Stacey does NOT quiz us on our knowledge of This is Spinal Tap . . . instead, she focuses on current eve...
No Need to Worry, I Have Them All
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If you're wondering where your extension cords went, apparently they attained autonomy and migrated into my junk room, where they've...
One Summer, Two Stephen King Books
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It's been a long time since I read two Stephen King books in one summer-- maybe thirty years-- but Finders Keepers is even better than J...
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Giant Apes, White Whales, Cheeky Monkeys, and a Can of Worms
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It took two nights for my family and I to make it through Peter Jackson's epic 2005 remake of King Kong and-- despite the three hour...
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Aleppo Causes Me Cognitive Dissonance
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I'm having a hard time reconciling what I remember about Aleppo and what I have been reading about the city recently; an article in The ...
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This Picture Is NOT Photoshopped (I don't even know how to use Photoshop)
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While I was walking the dog in Donaldson Park, I saw in the distance a small tree, floating horizontally, levitating five feet above th...
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Heavy Stuff in Small Packages
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Guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan chooses some heavy stuff for The Best American Essays of 2014 ; tales of sexual abuse, miscarriage in Mo...
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Tchotchke Overload
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We had a spectacularly sunny week in Sea Isle City this year; four families shared a five bedroom house with a beautiful view of the ocea...
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The Yin and Yang of Soccer
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In honor of Sunday, the most holy day, which has been deemed both The Day of Soccer (both travel and pick-up) and the Day of American Fo...
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A Good Summer (So Far)
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Summer is my least favorite season-- too hot and sunny-- but I shouldn't complain . . . as there are only two requirements for having a ...
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This One Almost Goes to Eleven
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I'm especially proud of this new episode of The Test because I edited the entire thing on vacation on my ancient MacBook Pro laptop . ....
Favelas and Futebol at the Copa
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Juliana Barbassa's book Dancing With the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink is a frustrating and fascinating tour ...
Another Trip to Sea Isle, Another LeCompt Show . . .
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It was Sunday night and we were on vacation in Sea Isle City, so-- of course-- we were at the required LeCompt show, and while we were tak...
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This Sentence is about . . . Something
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I listened to Harlan Coben on Freakonomics last week, in an episode called "How to Create Suspense" and he was so engaging that ...
All Apologies
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To the young lovers cuddling on the lifeguard stand and the lady combing the beach for shells and the the man driving the sand sweeper, I ap...
The Long Goodbye
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I am cleaning out my side room so I can expand Greasetruck Studios, but getting rid of the piles and piles of books I've acquired over t...
Tragedy of the Commons (and Consciousness)
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If you want to listen to something scary and frustrating, Planet Money 640: The Bottom of the Well is the one for you . . . or you could ju...
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Game of Thrones and The Peltzman Effect
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While listening to an old episode of Freakonomics , I learned about The Peltzman Effect , which asserts that when things become safer, we...
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Another Time, Picnic!
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I know people are on vacation and someone out there is planning a picnic, but it's still nice to have a rainy day once in a while . . ...
I Need to Read Something With Jokes
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The Last Coyote is the fourth book in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series, and it is a dark and existential one-- think True Detect...
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