avablog

I know, right? “It’s about time.” I hear you. Seems like I should provide some sort of synopsis, even though most of you have heard the best tidbits by now. The big news, of course, is that Rachel and Kevin were robbed. Actually, their room was broken into, and the thieves made off with Kevin’s […]

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Forget the overpriced tickets, the expensive snacks, the lines, and the whole “going outside” thing. Here’s the best reason to avoid the movie theater. (Don’t pretend you don’t have a second of empathy for the shooter.) Well, 29-year-old James Joseph Cialella Jr went to see David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the […]

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To protect and to serve (lunch).

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The challenge: Seven things about me (with selected item inspiration from Aprille). Ready, set…. I was thrilled that this meme gave me a chance to finally use the ordered list tags on WordPress. Maybe this tells you so much about me that you needn’t read further. I truly believe that I’m 2.5-3 times more awesome […]

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I mean, really. You’re a white supremacist who’s naming your kids all sorts of insane things, and you put up a stink and make it into the papers for all to see? Clearly, I’m coming at this from the wrong perspective, like white supremacy is a bad thing. I should change my views. Surely there’s […]

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LOL

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Leah gets pretty strung out when she’s home with a sick Ava all day. It’d be different if they could get outside and go somewhere, but we’re trying to get Ava to rest, and in case you’re not aware, it’s frickin’ COLD out there! Today, Leah was scrambling for ways to entertain Ava that didn’t […]

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I feel ya, Brit. I really, really do.

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Fire up your VCDVRs for Friday night, as The IT Crowd is making its triumphant return to the BBC. Catch it before NBC ruins it forever….

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Believe it or not, I really do try to keep my opinions to myself when I determine they might hurt someone else’s feelings. I know, I know. “Bulls*#t!,” you say. But it’s true. That said, this just weirds me the heck out. WAY out. I feel like I should apologize for that, but I can’t […]

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I love it when the Internet does my Christmas shopping for me. Merry Christmas, Leah!

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And then there’s criminal. A father in Johnson City, Tennessee is going to remember this Election year for a long time to come. That’s because Mark Ciptak named his newborn daughter Sarah McCain Palin. Ciptak and his wife originally named their daughter Ava Grace but Ciptak changed the name on her birth certificate without his […]

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Leah’s finishing off bed time with Ava last night, and I settle in downstairs in front of a fascinating profile of Richard Nixon showing on PBS. As my better-educated readers probably already know, the story on Nixon is that he was a fairly vicious, often spiteful political opponent who never met a sleazy campaign tactic […]

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Hate to let this month end without a nod to the late, great David Foster Wallace. Harper’s has put up PDFs of the pieces he wrote for them. It’s awesome stuff.

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I love this site. It’s so sweet. It transports me back to a more innocent time, when teenagers were married in matching striped polo shirts. In case you don’t recognize that strapping lad in the photo, that’s Josh Duggar, one of the soon-to-be 18 Duggar children.

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Rest in peace, Paul. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke…Slap Shot. Sheesh. What a body of work. Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand.

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Back in high school, my chums and I spent a fair amount of time listening to music favored by the skater set (we had a 16′ wide half pipe in our back yard — 8′ transitions — that drew all sorts of skaters and bikers from all over the place; the neighbors were thrilled). Broadly […]

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I watched five minutes of this show once, and it was pretty lame, but then I have a low tolerance for Hummer drivers, in general.

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at least be truthful.

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