Category Archives: General Culture and News

The Bark Side of the Force

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Tom Garrett

Things have been a little long-winded around here of late.  I wanted to try to accomplish two things with this post.  First, drop the Brow-o-Meter down a notch or two.  Mission accomplished.  Secondly, I wanted to see how many categories … Continue reading →

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Six Open Questions About Tim Tebow

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Tom Garrett

If you can’t stand Tim Tebow, here’s the good news: This will be the last Tebow-related piece I write until at least August, barring some unforeseen incident involving a trade or the Rapture. The bad news is that it’s going … Continue reading →

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Best of 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Tom Garrett

This year began with me being bitten in the face by a dog and will end with me staring at a dwindling bank account and vowing to reform my questionable eating and exercise regimen before I suffer a coronary. Yet, 2011 … Continue reading →

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This Strange, Twitterfied World

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Tom Garrett

The profound changes to our culture wrought by the rise of the Internet as a whole are obvious to all.  But I’m fascinated by one very surprising and strange way in which Twitter specifically altered the manner in which we … Continue reading →

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Escape to New York

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Tom Garrett

It’s been an unusually-long time since I’ve posted, but there’s a good reason for that: I knew that writing about the trip I took to New York City a little over a week ago was going to take some time.  I’ll … Continue reading →

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My Father, the (Fake) Doctor

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Tom Garrett

Among the cultural artifacts I unearthed at my mother’s house during recent preparations for a yard sale were issues of Time and Newsweek from March, 1961. The Newsweek cover is especially fantastic.  The bleak picture painted in today’s media environment when one … Continue reading →

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The Last Toy

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Tom Garrett

I recently helped my mom prepare for a yard sale by going to her house and sifting through my childhood toys so that she could label and group them more accurately.  As an only child in a middle-class family, I … Continue reading →

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How Things Used to Work

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Tom Garrett

As I sat around on Sunday staring at a RedZone “quad-box” on my HDTV with my smartphone by my side and my laptop in my . . . uh . . . lap, I realized that even those of us … Continue reading →

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What Commercials Have Taught Me About Myself

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Tom Garrett

Television is more than a wondrous box rectangle that bestows upon us hours of entertainment, information, infotainment, and entermation.  It’s a metaphorical window on our own society, more so even than the actual windows that face outward to the real … Continue reading →

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Right On Schedule

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Tom Garrett
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