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Skinner’s pigeon.

Skinner's pigeon.

After my petty Netflix complaints in the previous post, I spent an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for something to Watch Instantly. This turned into an evening of rating several hundred movies to bump me over the 1000 markĀ  –and finally settling on something to watch and falling asleep 5 minutes into it. [...]

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Be prepared, girl scout!

Be prepared, girl scout!

As a fan of the supernatural thriller type movie I am happy to suspend disbelief to a degree beyond that of my more obnoxious spoil sport nerd friends. You can even hit me with some preposterous fringe bullshit like aquatic apes or hilarious hybrids or really stretch string theory if you want, but when your [...]

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Questioning Victims

The big story –on my planet, which is celebrating a forever-long moratorium on the infidelities of professional sports people, but sadly has reached its maximum capacity of 1 human, all past present and future cats, and a sauropod resurrected through a secret potion I accidentally-on-purpose swallowed– is that people are both shocked and Not Shocked [...]

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(Another) fresh start

There simply was too much cell phone coverage and not enough snow in my life so I moved to Vermont almost two weeks ago. No joke, really. Small town New England –maple flavored everything, ski reports on the news, people leaving their cars unlocked and running in the grocery store parking lot. There’s been snow [...]

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Ancient history

Ten years ago I sold my 87 Pontiac Sunbird for scrap, packed an army duffel, got on a plane, and landed in Los Angeles. The near-year I spent there encompassed some of the most fun I’ve had along with the absolute worst point in my life so far. I do not regret a minute of [...]

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