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Put on your Mystery Sneaker and Give Me a Clue Because it’s Time to Ride the...
Mystery Sneaker, which was the "Holy Grail" of vocabulary development in Mrs. Hickman's first grade class. She was telling us the class rules, and every single one of us was at attention. After all,...
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Jewel-cased Memories
And this is only A-H of my CD collection. One of the most practical gifts I received for Christmas was a CD book the size of a photo album. It’s made out of faux leather and holds about 375 CDs, which...
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Fuzzy memories of summer camp
On Monday, my son started summer camp. Beng that he is a four-year-old rising kindergartener, this was a pretty big deal because it is his first “summer break” after a year of school (whereas up until...
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Cuckoo for CoCo Wheats
I’ve always been attracted to random stuff at stores. When I was a kid, for instance, I liked to walk down the “aisle of forgotten toys” at Toys R Us. In fact, I even had a few of the random-assed...
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Get Down Tonight
All of the pictures from the night in questions aren’t ones that my friends and I want floating around the web, so here’s a picture of the Humanities building. I was cleaning a couple of weeks ago,...
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We’re #1 on This Demonstration
The Yamaha PSR-27 keyboard. I have been playing the piano since I was about seven years old, and since I was in junior high, I have also owned an electronic keyboard. Keyboards were big-ticket items...
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Memories of Concrete and Asphalt
Back in October, my parents came down from Long island to take my son to Kings Dominion, an amusement park just outside of Richmond. Being that he’s only five years old, he was interested in the...
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The Last Time the World was Supposed to End
A Y2K bunker. Although it doesn’t look like this one was very well-supplied. So we survived yet another supposed apocalypse.You know, I have never been able to take threats of the end of the world very...
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Amy + Joey 4eva
So I’m not the only person in my generation who is starting to feel a little older because quite a number of the things that I enjoyed when I was in high school are turning 20. We’ve already passed...
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Signs and Stickers
It sounds ungrateful to say this, but there were many times throughout my youth where I was bored off my ass while on a family vacation. oh sure, we took trips to amusements parks and went to places...
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“Generation X” is … (a post from 1994)
Before I get to the meat of this, I should provide some preamble. The post that will go up later in the week is titled “Being Michael Grates,” wherein I take a look at Ben Stiller’s character from...
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Two Liters With a Pie
The flat remains of a two-liter bottle of Diet Pepsi. Yes, that’s my kitchen in the background.A couple of months ago, I was at a work function where food was being served. We had a few tables of...
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First and Best for the Rest
A quick note: Today is my tenth wedding anniversary. To honor it, I’m reposting what I wrote ten years ago on my old blog, Inane Crap. Bits and pieces of this have been edited for spelling/grammar,...
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Show Me That Panarese Smile
The portrait studio section of an unknown Sears. My sister and I cannot smile. Okay, that’s not entirely true–we have the muscle function that is necessary to smile, but if you ask us to sit for a...
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Bowling, Burgers, and Birthdays
Sayville Bowl, the bowling alley where I spent many a childhood birthday party. I went to a kid’s birthday party a few weeks ago. Normally, these are held at one of those huge playland places that...
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Classic College Memes: You Know You’re in College When ….
The Internet is full of memes–lists, gifs, videos, and other things that often go viral–and that’s been the case since, well, since the Internet was invented. A couple of weeks ago while cleaning out...
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Classic College Memes: Fun Things to do in a Final That Does Not Matter
Final exams at Ridgemont High, circa 1983. The Internet is full of memes–lists, gifs, videos, and other things that often go viral–and that’s been the case since, well, since the Internet was invented....
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Classic College Memes: How to Mess With Your Roommate
The Internet is full of memes–lists, gifs, videos, and other things that often go viral–and that’s been the case since, well, since the Internet was invented. A couple of weeks ago while cleaning out...
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June 17, 1994: The Most Important Day of the Nineties
The cover to the 1994 Regents exam in English. Had the events of the evening of June 17, 1994 not proceeded the way they did, i am sure that I would have remembered the day anyway. It wouldn’t have...
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Leave Yourself Behind
A quick note: This piece originally appeared on an old blog of mine in July 2004. I’ve edited and updated it. My only regret is that I did not stay longer. I would have loved to experience more, go...
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