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LEGO My Hollywood!
So, I saw the new LEGO Movie this weekend with the kids. The movie was fun. Pure, clean, with well... pardon the pun, a well put together screenplay. It meanders and is at times, way over the top with...
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Embracing My (Newly Adopted) Viking Heritage
Recently I attended my first-ever Renaissance festival. 'It was a hearty time with plenty of grog and mead, sturdy lads and fiery lasses, bouts of jousting to rattle your loins with feasts, beasts and...
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Godiva only knows
I usually despise when luxury brands do traditional mass market advertising. I find that it dilutes the brand message. Then I chanced upon this (ahem) sweet series of promotional posters for Godiva...
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Life Lessons In The Brackets
So what can the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament teach us about life?It’s that NCAA Final Four time of year once again. And once again we're all a flutter over filling out brackets and trying to...
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I’d buy that for a dollar
How long can we last? Long ago while living in my home state of Massachusetts, I bought a can of men’s shaving cream. It wasn’t some weird impulse buy and I wasn’t being particularly finicky about...
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When should kids answer the “Call Of Duty”?
When’s the perfect time to introduce kids to volatile, highly emotional gaming? When they’re ready.[Nearly] every parent faces a question thought unimaginable with past generations. When should my...
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I figured it out!
To anyone who knows me, you know I am a huge movie buff. Yes I do co-write an amateur (but fast gaining readership) sci-fi review blog called the Boxed Office. While I'm usually a general lover of...
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Five Signs that the Zombie Apocalypse has begun
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or a deserted island over the last 15 years, you know Zombies are big. The story of the dead rising to plague the living is the stuff of nightmares. Since George R....
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The truth about stupid
Forrest Gump nailed it when he said, "Stupid is as stupid does." I'm always at amazed at how little people seem to know.I am going to warn you now, this post is for people who already know stuff....
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Embrace the creative you
I've long been fascinated by the beautiful and completely perplexing world of modern art and culture. Our world seems like such a better place to me with art in all it’s many forms; painting,...
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You should love advertising more
Tune in, turn it up and settle down, advertising is here to stay. Admit it, you hate advertising. Ads interrupt TV shows, your jams on the radio, they pop up on your favorite movie, game or news-based...
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Superheroes and the quest for the larger-than-life man
(or what my beloved super heroes taught me that my Dad never could.)Illustration by Arthur MilanoThe phenomenon that is superhero culture has grown exponentially and I think I know why. Thus, may I...
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You Mad Bro?
Always angry behind the wheel? Maybe it’s time we looked at why.Time for a rant, kiddies. Not a day goes by while driving in Phoenix, Arizona that I don’t get at least one stare-down from angry and...
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There must be something wrong with me
Getting hurt isn’t funny. No matter what the idiots who run MTV will tell you, their million-dollar programs like “Ridiculousness” or VH1’s World’s Dumbest… whatever. Or the Jackass movies and TV...
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Why Ferguson is such a personal outrage
This is NOT the post you think it is. As a man of bi-racial heritage, I find it difficult to swear racial allegiance to one “race” or another. Like I have shared with my four bi-racial children, when...
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I decided “getting old” just isn’t my thing.
Nothing makes you feel the weight of your years like your children. They know nothing, yet have all the answers. Their music is “better” (also known as worse), their TV and tech is almost out of reach...
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18 things to remember when you're 18
On September 30th, 2014, my daughter turned 18 years old. What an amazing milestone she has reached and I will save all the “it seems like only yesterday, when…”cliches you’ve heard them all… even...
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This just in: Dads aren’t dimwits.
I have noticed recently that Dads in the media are portrayed increasingly as dolts, dummies and dimwits. This post is going to attempt to alter the course of that nonsense.How dare you!As a single Dad...
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That's NOT what I said
So after 46 years on Earth, I’ve noticed some stuff. One of those things is the growing number of instances where people feel compelled to tell you their misunderstanding of something you just said....
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Why I am (finally!) excited for Star Wars again!
Ask me why I’m suddenly giddy again. Go ahead, ask me. (Need a clue? Just read the title.)Unless you’ve been bulls-eyeing womp rats in your T-16 back home (I hear they’re not much bigger than two...
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Got a definitive thought? Think again.
...or why EVERYTHING is a grey area these days.Have you noticed the disturbing new trend in the world? Nothing is ever succinct. EVER. Problems are on the rise as solutions or on the decline. Here’s...
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You Have No Excuses
Our world is ever-changing. Always has been. And the amount of information and content has exploded to unimaginable levels. Now there's Google, and a host of other browsers, that put the entirety of...
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Five Reasons Why We Should Let The Machines Take Over
I'm convinced, contrary to what Hollywood, Raymond Kurzweil and Steven Hawking all would have us believe, the machines will (and should) take their rightful place alongside us in the world. I think its...
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My Random 2014 Rewind
Normally, I match the number of noteworthy news bits from the last year to the year itself (14 for 2014, etc.) but since I'm publishing this in 2015, we'll do a plus one. So without further adieu, here...
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We already won
Geek culture isn’t ‘taking over.’ That already happened.It is with great joy I bring you the following op-ed: We won! The war is over. Go grab a nurse in Times Square and lay a big wet one on her (or...
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