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The Donkey Behind Door Number Three

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Let’s say you’re on Monte Hall’s “Let’s Make a Deal” gameshow. You get to pick a hidden prize behind door number one, door number two, or door number three. The trick is that two of the doors hide donkeys, and only one door hides the Maserati. You pick door number one. The host, in the [...]

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Ode to Mustard

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As Queen of Labor Day I have decreed that everyone lay around in their pajamas all day (I am leading by example) and eat their favorite foods. I just finished my mustard sandwich. That’s right, the Carb Nazi is off duty today and I’m having TWO, count them, two slices of squishy white bread with [...]

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Women Not Big Fans of Pro Sports, and Editors Still Use Sex to Sell Reporting to Men

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This infuriates me. Not the report on this study, which I found interesting, if not surprising, but the stupid decision to slap a cheesecake photo of a cheerleader at the top. It’s so damn hard to get any respect, I swear it is. Go ahead. I’ll wait while you click through. Professional cheerleaders are incredible [...]

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19 Best Worst Villains of All Time

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I recently read a “Top 10 Best Villains” post by NC blogger and romance author Sonja Foust that made me start thinking about the bad guys I love to hate. Here’s my own ordered version of the list, with a few notes and “Dishonorable Mentions” at the end. I hope you’ll add your villains to [...]

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What I Did On My Summer Vacay

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It was rather last minute: we had to drop off two of the boys near Asheville NC for summer camp, and I asked the Husband if he would be willing to stay an extra day to see Biltmore. I researched B&B’s, picked my favorite, he booked us, and we were off. We stayed at the [...]

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Curses!

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Discovering the Curse-O-Meter I was walking barefoot out in the woods and a broken branch took a slice out of the back of my heel, right at the base of my Achilles tendon. It was all fine (bloody, but fine) until I had to put on my shoes and get in the boxing ring. Then [...]

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How I Accidentally Saw Elvis Dead

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It was hot as hell on August 17th, 1977, the day I accidentally saw Elvis dead. It was the year that Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit movie theaters like a neutron bomb, the year that Rocky won an Academy Award for best picture.  I had my first kiss that year [...]

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Addicted to Pain: an Interview with Dave Minella

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He’s a Pittsburgh native, a PR/Advertising director for a robotics company, the bass player in a regularly-gigging metal band, and a professional bodybuilder. If you follow him online (Twitter, Facebook, his blog, MySpace, you name it — this man knows his way around the intertubes) you learn quickly that he’s a major motorcycle racing fan [...]

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Where Were You in ’72? (Happy Birthday Title IX!)

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In 1972 I was learning to play driveway basketball with the older boys across the street who had the only goal on our block. They were tall, fierce, and perfectly willing to outrun, outshoot, and outmanuver me with plenty of grins and laughter. There were two rules: 1. Take the ball out past the end [...]

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Why Do You Do It? An interview with Critter

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If he walked into your office for an interview, you might notice a tattoo just above the collar of his crisp white dress shirt. You’d see the moderate spacers in his ears. But his easy smile, warm brown eyes, and affable manner would make up most of your first impression. Most days you’ll find him [...]

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