Category: holidays
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A Quantification of the Day Before, the Day After, and New Year’s Eve
Number of Theme Parks visited: 3Total theme park hours clocked: 31.5Total different number of rides ridden: 21Total number of actual rides: 33 Oldest ride ridden: technically, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, which debuted on July 18, 1955 as the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. Most ridden ride: Apocalypse, Six Flags (6 rides)Most rides in one […]
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Resolve
I don’t like New Year’s resolutions and try not to make them. It seems like a recipe for disaster to me to forge new promises at the darkest, bleakest, most depressing point in the year. Aren’t we all desperate for change? Don’t we all just want to be thinner, younger, happier, more better? Sure. Plus, […]
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Happy Yam Sham!
Willow: What a load of horse hooey. Buffy: We have a counterpoint? Willow: Yeah. Thanksgiving isn’t about blending of 2 cultures. It’s about one culture wiping out another. And then they make animated specials about the part where, with the maize and the big, big belt buckles. They don’t show you the next scene, where […]
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Life, v2.0
I spent the holiday weekend turning my living room 90 degrees to the left. Now all the furniture and art are on different walls. It only involved one trip to Best Buy to get a new coaxial cable. And because I no longer live alone, somehow season 1 of Designing Women also found its way […]
Charles Jensen | Writer 