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oh, if only I could stay awhile; but what am I afraid of?

Penny Arcade followed up their contentious post on buying used video games last week with another post on Friday: People who buy used games are not pirates, by definition. Used games (used everything, really) are and will continue to be a legal and protected form of commerce. Other industries have done what they can to [...]

good things come to boys who wait

Our manager returned from her honeymoon in Shanghai (which should be a Jackie Chan flick, if it isn’t already) with a bag full of local candy for us. She made us all pick something at random first, then dumped the rest of the bag on the table for us to share. My first pick: a [...]

a little goodwill goes a mighty long way

Yesterday, Jerry Holkins (a/k/a Tycho of the popular video game webcomic Penny Arcade) said some stuff about used games: In a literal way, when you purchase a game used, you are not a customer of [game developer THQ]. If I am purchasing games in order to reward their creators, and to ensure that more of [...]

tonight wyclef, akon, weezy on the bill

I wrote my longest Overthinking It post in years – perhaps ever – giving a deep read of Wyclef Jean’s three-year-old pop hit, “Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill).” Wyclef makes use of a triple-antanaclasis here with three different meanings of the word “bill.” The first, the most common one throughout the song, is a bill as [...]

I’ll pretend my ship’s not sinking

Oh, dear. Someone take Eli Manning’s last known photograph: EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning said he will play Saturday against the Baltimore Ravens. Manning will practice Monday afternoon but will wear a baseball cap instead of a helmet. The quarterback is not to be touched in the non-tackling practice. He [...]

baby won’t you try to find me

I suppose it’s not strictly an SEO fail. Technically, Jetblue.com is in position #1 on Google for “jetblue all you can jet.” But you’d think they’d have a better page in the top slot. Sorry. That search was performed on Wednesday August 18th, the day the sale was announced. I performed another search this morning [...]

a piece of me will always be inside of you

Question regarding the new Jennifer Aniston / Jason Bateman comedy The Switch: Kassie [Aniston], on her own but eager to have a baby, has personally selected her donor, a square-jawed surfer-blond dude named Roland (Patrick Wilson). To toast her impending pregnancy, she throws a party in which Roland is asked to leave his crucial sample [...]

a woman is a woman and a man ain’t nothing but a male

I tell myself I don’t like swing dancing. “I don’t like swing dancing,” I told myself, Sylvia and several other people on Tuesday. This was at the Yelp Elite event in Charles Square near Harvard. It’s not that I don’t like dancing. I love dancing. Ask anyone who’s seen me at a wedding, or in [...]

it’s such a feeling that, my love, I can’t hide

Can we talk about how great Mad Men has been this season so far? I have this secret daydream that Matthew Weiner sat down a year ago, looked at the various issues of Vanity Fair and Esquire and Maxim that proclaimed Don Draper the idol of a generation of unanchored males, and said, “Obviously you [...]

baby did a bad bad thing

Saturday night, I shot perhaps the worst game of pool I’ve shot in over a decade. I’ve never been good at pool. There’s no great mystery behind it: I never had much opportunity to play growing up and have never invested the money in learning. I developed enough skill to knock balls in the direction [...]

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