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Continue reading →: Fitter. Happer. More comfortable.The Costco pharmacy area is one of my favorite places to walk around and window-shop. Need 2,000 Aleve? Got U. Need fourteen boxes of Sensodyne? Yep. A year’s worth of allergy meds? $10 and you’re good to go. But the real fun is the supplements, which always lead me down…
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Continue reading →: Love at first flipThe year is 1997. The Internet still starts with a capital letter and is accessed almost exclusively by dial-up. Macs are still beige. Titanic is predicted to be the biggest flop ever released. Despite being a desperately broke journalism graduate student, I wanted to buy a cell phone. I was…
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Continue reading →: Baldy by natureLooking back, losing my hair was inevitable. I come from a long line of bald dudes. My family has, on the whole, more women than men, but all of the DNA-involved males in my family had little-to-no hair in adulthood. I get my baldness honestly. I had an inkling that…
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Continue reading →: RIP, Sports IllustratedI’m not the world’s biggest sports fan and would never claim to be. Don’t get me wrong, I like sports, but I don’t have a brain that lends itself well to enjoying them. I don’t remember moments or players or stats or trends, and I really don’t care very much…
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Continue reading →: Life’s essentials: zip ties and duct tapeOur 2022 CR-V’s heat shield popped loose last week and got its front end chewed up by the highway. How? Why? Who can say. I ordered replacement garbled-consonant-brand bolts from Amazon after trying very hard to buy them locally, and got them yesterday, but ended up fixing the problem as…
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Continue reading →: Rabbit ears
With the Super Bowl coming up, I realized that I don’t have a way to watch it since canceling YouTube TV last year. Even though I don’t care a lot about the NFL, the Super Bowl is one of those moments that I like to stay tuned into just for…
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Continue reading →: Bully, Craig Finn and The Mountain Goats, Charlotte, NC
Last week I sojourned to Charlotte, NC, to see Craig Finn and, as a bonus, The Mountain Goats and Bully. The concert was at a venue in the NoDa area called the Neighborhood Theater, which was a pretty great place for a show. Big, open bar area where you could…
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Continue reading →: Nine years of friendly surveillance
On Jan. 23, 2015, I became the first kid on my block to get an Amazon Echo, welcome the kinda-smart speaker into a very skeptical family. Amazon announced its “crazy speaker that talks to you” in late 2014, offering it for $99 to Prime members who moved fast to get…
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Continue reading →: Number Go Up
I’m a sucker for a gossipy business book, and Zeke Faux’s “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Ride and Staggering Fall” is the kind of thing I can’t resist. Faux tracks Sam Bankman-Fried and his associated crypto cronies around the world, tracing the wild and weird interrelated stories of Bitcoin,…
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Continue reading →: Madame Bovary (1949)
My younger kiddo is reading “Madame Bovary” for high school lit, so we decided to watch the movie last night. Turns out that’s a tougher decision to make than you might think, as it’s been adapted lots of times, a 2015 version, a 1991 version, a TV version in the…
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