December 2010
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The Boxing Day of Boxing Day
It’s snowing and cold here in upstate New York this morning, the day after Boxing Day. Kids are off from school, wife took the week off from work, and since I haven’t found a job yet, I’m home too. I am, however, the only conscious human in the house, so at least you can’t call me lazy. It was a pretty good weekend; on Boxing Day Eve almost nothing was open for some reason,...
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Happy Boxing Day
Twas the night before Boxing Day, and all through my home My wife and my children begged me to leave it alone. “Boxing Day is dumb,” Aaron said, with disgust It was something, I fear, that we’d often discussed. Kira and Lora had no interest at all Even though on Boxing Day you can go to the mall. On Christmas, On Thanksgiving, on Easter you can’t “But Boxing Day is...
“Hey, I was brave enough to shower with a homosexual this morning—surely the big,...”
– Dan Savage, reassuring terrified conservatives since Festivus 2010.
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Working For The Man
2002 seems a lot more than eight years ago to me, but the math (in this case) does not lie. At the time I was the morning news anchor (as well as a producer and assignment editor) on an NPR affiliate in Albany, New York, making more money than I ever thought possible and working with some of the most amazing broadcast journalists in the business. I was also maintaining Comic Book Galaxy and it...
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“Both [Republican and Democratic] parties are vying for a place in the graveyard...”
– James Howard Kunstler