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Trouble Loves Robocop: Bullets, Breaking Glass & Falling
Because the internet would not be complete without a video containing all of the breaking glass, extended death scenes, explosions and epic falls in the original Paul Verhoeven masterpiece Robocop,...
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The Walking Dead: This Charming Man
I’m just as psyched as anyone to see how Tasha Yar will manage to die in the upcoming fifth season of The Walking Dead. But before we move on to new foes and friends (and their respective deaths), I...
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Boldly Going: Civilization Beyond Earth
I can totally do that, Dave. I sometimes wonder whether I study history to become a better strategy game player or play strategy games to better understand human history. (The life lessons I draw from...
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Tolkien: Lessons from an Amateur
I simply invented Mordor. I suppose it would come as no great surprise, given the nature of this blog, that I adore the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Personally, one of the most enlightening elements of the...
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HELP! I NEED A HAIRCUT!
The fab four stages of my needing a haircut. Ladies and gentleman: My Haircut! Follow the gear fab layers my hair gets up (and down!) to as it slowly descends into post-apocalyptic madness before...
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Life Lessons I Learned from “Civilization”
I promised in an earlier post to enumerate the life lessons I’ve learned from my obsession with Sid Meier’s Civilization V. To summarize: Civ V begins at 5,000 BC, allows you to research everything...
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My Northern Aggression
Courtesy of the photo archives of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman I dedicate this blog space to my own stupid ideas. The ones that wing into my mind and stay long enough for me to care enough to spend an...
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Notes to Self: Topics to Not Discuss at Parties
For pictorial reference Recent social interactions have caused me to review what I consider topics of general interest. Apparently, not everyone finds my interests interesting. A fascinating...
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Notes to Self, II: Responses
Try not to say this. As a supplement to last week’s post, I thought it might be helpful for me to list acceptable and unacceptable responses to typical social situations that I have discovered in my...
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Searching for Songs with Shakespeare in a Troubled Time
Today’s NY Times Front Page A time of paranoia. A time of threats within and without. An old way of life has been discarded in favor of a new world of new ideas, sacred and profane. Burning...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: a Personal Review (No Spoilers)
Yes! Somewhere, deep down in a locked and staunchly protected room in my heart, lay my sincerest hopes for how Star Wars: The Force Awakens would make me feel. I grew up on the original films. In many...
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Jess Kicks Her Own Ass Pt 1
Help me finish what I started, burnt husk of a mask. Sometimes my self-loathing has consequences for the good. I mean, appeals to my vanity always work. People who say that you should: eat healthy,...
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Jess Kicks Her Own Ass Pt. 1.2
Alas! I know this feeling well, Horatio! I suppose I’ll address the issue of my “negativity” or “pessimism”, along with some other words I’ve been hearing in relation to my writing and other media,...
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Jess Kicks Her Own Ass Pt. 1.3
Memoirs of a Traveler: In the Beginning by, Jessica Lakis Look on my works… Chapter 1: I Slept and Am Awoken The midday sun assaulted my eyelids. They submitted and shut. The sun burrowed through them...
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Jess Kicks Her Own Ass Pt. 1.4
Me taking out the trash, but Star Wars. Tales of Snow and Star Wars Posting a rough draft was helpful. Not only did I appreciate the feedback, I also see more of what I need to change/expand upon....
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JKHOA 1.5 Mystery
Type “Amen” like and share ;) One of my many nerd-denominations is Sherlockian. I owe an existential debt to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. When I got to third grade, I had run out of Nancy Drew stories, so...
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JKHOA 1.6 Midpoint
The Road goes ever on and on . . . So, last Friday I gave myself the challenge of writing 500 words a day on this blog every day for two weeks, no rolling on Shabbas. Half way in, what have I learnt so...
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JKHOA Pt. 2 Snow Day Geek
Ladies, gentlemen: the most beautiful image ever. http:www.doctormacro.com. Enjoy! If you saw radar maps of Snowmaggedon or Snowzilla — or whatever hashtag you prefer — I was right under the part of...
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JKHOA Pt. 2.2 Netflix & Plague
Care for a dance? I have the plague. If I post tomorrow, you’ll know I lived. If I don’t please, someone, stab me in the brain. My door is the one with the white cross painted on it. And now back to...
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