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Tagged General Culture and News, Humor, Pictures, Poetry Slam, Sarcasm, VCU
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SitCombat: 2/16/12
A convincing victory by 30 Rock last week reinforced the balance among the three shows we’ve seen so far this year. There hasn’t been one show that’s dominated so far this year. In fact, I don’t think any of the shows has won back-to-back weeks when all three had new episodes. How did things shake out this time around? Let’s take a look.
This was SitCombat for February 16, 2012:
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Tagged 30 Rock, Archer, Commentary, Reviews, SitCombat, Television, The Office
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Meme a Little Meme
Hilarious friends from myriad walks of life have bombarded my Facebook feed with guffaw-inspiring pictures that show the various perceptions about a given occupation. The purveyors of this meme have extended it to jobs as diverse as public relations people, college students, sports information directors, home-schooled kids, photographers, disc jockeys, improvisers, seminarians, and even cats.
Examples of the “What People Think I Do” meme continue to proliferate. Since I’m always up for meme-participation (Anyone who knows me knows that I live for this stuff!), I thought I would throw my hat[1] into the proverbial ring.
So, here’s my attempt to shed some light on my own life and livelihood. I don’t see why directors and web developers and stay-at-home moms should have all the fun!
Bon appetite!
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[1] Which hat? Why, my thinking cap, of course!
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Tagged Commentary, Facebook, General Culture and News, Humor, Memes, Pictures, Sarcasm, Silliness
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The Grammys’ Best Moment
From my perspective, anyway.
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Tagged Brooklyn Decker, Grammys, Music, Pictures, Rich Eisen, Self-Promotion, Twitter
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The Perfect Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day (f/k/a St. Valentine’s Day) arrives to bestow upon us its annual bounty of heart-shaped confections and edible unmentionables.
Most of us are simultaneously delighted by this wonderful holiday and perplexed by how best to spend it. Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account has no doubt been inundated by complaints, apprehension, and questions revolving around the ideal method of celebrating Valentine’s Day. In fact, what was once a simple day of passing pink and red cards at worst, or a straightforward jewelry-for-sex exchange at best, has transformed into an increasingly pressure-packed, stressful event.
I’m not going to list a series of detailed Valentine’s Day ideas or suggestions. There are hundreds of other articles that fit that structure, and, besides, what works for me may not be what works for you. All I can do is present my own Valentine’s Day agenda, which hopefully might provide vague insight—if not specific instruction—into how you can make your holiday a successful one!
My Friend Bacon
I guess the first thing I should say is that it will come as a surprise to most of you that this is not actually an article about my love of pork products.
I’ve been fostering dogs for Bonnie Blue Rescue for about two years now. The first year went as I expected: I would receive a dog from the service, and, a short time later, the dog would leave me to go on a trial visit that inevitably became a permanent arrangement. A “forever home” in the parlance of the industry.
Credit: Emily Nolte-Shotwell
The length of time a particular dog stayed with me varied. Sometimes I would keep the animal only a few days if he were in transit. Sometimes it might be over a month, especially if the dog were too young to be adopted immediately. More often than not, each animal remained at my house for two or three weeks.
That was the first year. Things have been quite different in year two.
Whereas more than a dozen different animals stayed with me during my first twelve months helping Bonnie Blue, the second twelve months have been occupied by a single creature: A dog named Bacon.
Bacon came to live with me last February, when his name was still “Mick Jagger” for some unknown reason. He is a dachshund / beagle mix who stands about a foot off the ground at his highest point and tips the scales south of thirty pounds. “Bacon” seemed a more appropriate name for him.
Bacon traveled to Virginia after being thrown from the back of a moving truck by his previous owners. He not only survived the incident, but he miraculously suffered no serious injuries, possibly due to his unorthodox body type (he and I have that in common).
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Ranking the Dwarfs
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Snow White. Almost all of us are familiar with the Brothers Grimm collected story of the ongoing efforts of an evil queen to snuff out the only woman in all the land more beautiful than she.
The change to which I’m referring relates to the Seven Dwarves (called the Seven Dwarfs by Disney and others). The Dwarfs were nameless in the original, referred to only as “the first one, the second one,” and so on. There was a more obvious need to name the Dwarfs for the purposes of non-literary versions of the story. For example, the 1912 stage production called them Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick, and Quee.
Disney, however, gave each of the seven a distinct personality, complete with a defining characteristic and names to match. However, some of these little guys made out better than others. For no reason aside from my own amusement, here’s a ranking from worst-to-first of Snow White’s seven companions.
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