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Newfound Appreciation for Jazz

I was that guy who could reliably ignore the checkboxes for country, metal, spiritual/new age and jazz when asked what kinds of music I liked.  My friends, that time is over.  After going to LACMA this past weekend and seeing the exhibit for Archibald Motley Jr and hearing the atmospheric jazz music playing, I had to […]

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Amazing Race 25: Thinly Sliced Anchovies

Leg 4: October 17, 2014 I’d call this a very necessary episode, especially for my sense of “getting what was coming to ’em.”  As I noted in my Leg 3 recap, if I had to hear any more gloating or bragging from Misti & Jim, I was ready to say some harsh words.  Thankfully, that […]

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ANNNND the Comeback trailer is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKlsNB4lt4 If you haven’t watched the HBO series The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow, you really need to do yourself a favor and watch it.  It’s quite an amazing show from 2003 that holds up especially well in light of all the reality TV around.  Also, Lisa Kudrow?  Amazing.  It’s still pretty surprising that HBO is bringing […]

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I Love This Pic

I have been going through a steady and slow process of converting my old site’s HTML pages into WordPress entries because it makes things much easier to search and the ability to display photos with the Shashin plugin is fantastically more user-friendly and the photos can be seen in their full glory.  You have no […]

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Adventures from mid-October

So Larry & I had some fun these past two days – here’s how! Last night, we went to a Hipcooks event that Larry had received from Nicki as a birthday gift.  It’s one of those things where a group of people all cook a meal together and then feast upon the results!  We chose […]