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Buy this album

The grooves in your brain will thank you. Last night while digging through a box of computer CDs, looking for my Sim City 4 disc, I stumbled upon an iTunes gift card someone gave me last year for Christmas that I thought I’d lost. And lo I embarked upon a quest to enrich my hard drive with tunes so sweet and poppy and complex that I could not be helped but to decide upon Rob…

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An example of why I don’t read Paul Ryburn’s blog more often

Because he posts stuff like this and then doesn’t have comments enabled so people can actually interact with him. His main beef in the post is with The Commercial Appeal for not publishing news of a wrestler’s death until nearly ten days after he died. Because he doesn’t link to the CA article, I can’t look at it and tell you if it’s a follow-up story or a first-day obituary. There’s a big difference. And,…

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Phamily stories

Today I tagged along with Phil to his mom’s house for a quick daylong visit. His sister Brooke was there with Rylee, who is now just over two years old, and eventually his aunt and grandmother came over to retrieve his cousin Spencer, who had spent the night with his brother Rickey. We sat around in a circle in the living room and I listened as everyone exchanged stories about their time as children. These…

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