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As if we needed another reason to ban Florida. (warning: autoplay video) DeVita even pulled an iguana out of her toilet after it latched on to a plunger a few years ago. “In one of my bathrooms, my roommate kept hearing … Continue reading →

I don’t/didn’t watch FX’s “The Americans” — or any “prestige TV” for that matter — but I happened to find the contrast in these points funny. (If, that is, the phrasing wasn’t supposed to be a tell.) From the New … Continue reading →

It’s nice work if you can get it. (I can dream, can’t I?)

October 20, 2016: Specialty marketing for this Raising Cane’s in downtown Baton Rouge had to improvise after LSU coach Les Miles was abruptly panic-fired in a Les-Miles-fashion loss to Auburn. In my Big South Trip of fall 2016, I got … Continue reading →

In case you missed it last week: Uranus smells like rotten eggs. WHO’s Jannay Towne, in attempting to report the news, did exactly what anyone else would do. A Grand Island Independent columnist did a short roundup of headlines.

December 29, 2001: A wreath marks the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis. The building of the Lorraine Motel was incorporated into the National Civil Rights Museum. Our trip to the 2001 Independence Bowl, like so … Continue reading →

It’s probably not news that footage used in campaign ads will be reused and recycled over the course of multiple elections. But there’s one now that takes the reuse to a new level because the original content is somewhat notorious. … Continue reading →

In the opening credits of “The X-Files” (a show whose return didn’t conceal the fact it was old enough to have a theme song) is an intentional error I hadn’t noticed until this season. The ID badges in the opening … Continue reading →

On sale, or perhaps “sale”, at the front of Hy-Vee recently was a new type of M&M’s bag. It was sealable at the top — which makes it harder to store small-side-down — and it was a different size than … Continue reading →

The year in light reading (except the bottom, still to be read). I wrote something. It ran in the Gazette on New Year’s Eve. In a sense, it’s the seedier side to my year of travel. Reading about the gulfs … Continue reading →