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Best of 2021

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Best of 2020

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Best of 2018

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Best of 2017

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Best of 2016

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Top games from 2015 I didn't get to but fully intend to play in 2016

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Stephen Gammell, freakish childhood nostalgia

Aug 5, 2008

I don’t know how many of you (who am I talking to?) had those Scary Stories books as a kid, but I sure did. If you don’t know, these were short books targeted at children, and contained a number of scary folklore stories. Though I haven’t read one in a long while, I vividly remember being legitimately scared of these stories as a child, and hiding under my covers to go to sleep after reading th...

Exerpts from my Germany blog from 2006

Aug 5, 2008

"....And if you want regular water, too effing bad. Anytime you ask for water, you're going to get this godawful mineral water. I even asked for regular water at the bowling alley, which is Stillewasser in German, and they didn't have any. They didn't have any. They didn't have any water." " So Germany was finally eliminated from the World Cup. These soccer, 'Fußbol' fans are effing crazy . The...

Sunny D

Jul 27, 2008

I love that commercial for Sunny Delight. It's the one with the straight-outta-the-80s looking kids opening the fridge in search of beverages. The apparent resident child of the household riffles through a few options. It goes something like this: "We've got soda, juice, some purple stuff, sunny delight..." At this point all of the other kids exclaim "Sunny Delight!" in unison. Scene change, th...