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To Blog or Not To Blog (And If So, Where?): A Round-up of blogging platforms

There has been some talk on Facebook and Reddit in recent weeks about blogging--whether it's still relevant, who is doing it, and what ...
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There’s now an open source Name Him site for women to post their attackers. I support this. I keep thinking about this dad, driving me hom...
Movie: It Feeds (2025)

Alright folks, this post is about a new movie, out this year: It Feeds. Now, every time I post in the Horror Facebook Group I'm in, firs...
"The Book Was Better?" But Let Me Tell You About Jaws (Book vs Movie)

Jaws is my favorite movie, but to be frank, I hated the book. I don't like Peter Benchley's writing at all, may he rest in peace. Th...
Cah Wahz: Tales From a Boston Driver

Visitors marvel at how often we talk about traffic. The fact is, navigating in and around Boston takes a special kind of grit, and way ...
With Friends Like These

Whenever I consider machine-gunning my Facebook account, I stay my hand. The problem is that I have some of the most well-read, pop cultur...
Movie: Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

I watched Gunpowder Milkshake on Netflix yesterday and loved it! It's a woman-forward noir-esque action movie from 2021 with awesome fig...
Movie: Cube (1997)

In a perplexing state of "WTF did I just watch" I bring you Cube (1997, Tubi), written and directed by Vincenzo Natali. It was his...
Read More Books! Some Favorite Sources

This filter is...pineapples? Hey guys! I came across this great site: Thriftbooks.com. They deal in gently used books, and sell at reall...
Dear Google...A Wish List For Blogger, If I May...

Google, why hast thou forsaken us? So it's pretty well known that Google has not been devoting that much dev time to Blogger in recent y...

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The Star Wars Holiday Special : Merry Gen X'mas

Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
ACOSTA FAMILY: Are these girls okay?

When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady

One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams

When I was 24 years old, I found it necessary to retract and re-submit my * theory about musicians and just what the hell is their deal a...
Me and the Loony Bin

Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Nove...
Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!

A Short Primer for the Spiritually Conflicted If your thousands-of-years-old religion's definition of "dec...
Where Is Lexi Kahn?

No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
American Borer Story: The Blair Witch Project Turns 15

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