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the killing finale

Today, months after anyone cared, I wrote a post for Overthinking It walking back my earlier enthusiasm for AMC’s The Killing in light of its awful season finale: Season 1 of The Killing plays out like a bad improv show. Suspects are introduced and then flatly discarded without leading anywhere else. Rosie Larsen’s ex-boyfriend was [...]

let me take you on a journey through carmel city

The longer I work in marketing, the less comfortable I am with “eighteen to thirty-five” as a demographic. I wouldn’t want to spend 2 minutes in an elevator with most 20-year-olds, and I have to spend another 5 years in the same demo as them? There’s nothing I have in common with them aside from [...]

I was only robbing the register; I hope you understand

Somehow I thought 10:45 PM on a Friday would be a good time to go to Shaw’s. Even with Hurricane Irene impending, I figured most of Cambridge and Somerville’s brightest would wait until Saturday to truly start panicking. Besides, all I needed were some Triscuits. Unfortunately, the Porter Square Shaw’s was the most crowded I’d [...]

you can fence in your yard, you can pull all the cards

Quitter: Jon Acuff’s book talked me out of quitting my day job to go pursue my dream. And for that I’m grateful. Why? Because Acuff wants you to fully understand the risks of quitting a steady desk job for an uncertain dream. He wants you to have a plan to follow your dream, but not [...]

like a star that can’t wait for the night

This past Saturday, I audited the oral exam for the newest class of jiu-jitsu instructors. It took just over four hours to get through twenty students. Each student got two five-minute segments: one to teach a technique of their choosing, one to teach a technique that our sensei assigned. As an instructor, I kept score [...]

now love is just a faded memory

Busy with other stuff this week, so three quick updates to tide you over: First, if you’re interested in the tabletop gaming I’ve been up to, you can check out Fading Suns: Road to Nowhere, which will recap a game that I’m running currently. If you’re not interested in gaming, then do whatever it is [...]

swift-sure bringer of death to beggar and king

I was drinking with Fraley and Hawver, two of my closest friends, on the back patio at the Field in Central Square. “Guys,” I asked, “should we be worried about Google?” Both of them burst out laughing. I don’t know if they thought I meant worried as in worried-about-Uncle-Paulie worried (I don’t know if he’s [...]

words are wind

New post up on Overthinking It, in which I talk about some of the phrases George R.R. Martin uses a dozen times or more in A Dance with Dragons: ADWD is the first Song of Ice and Fire novel that I read on the Kindle. This has several excellent advantages over traditional hardback or paperback [...]

the price you pay

Every year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts conducts an experiment in the form of a sales tax holiday. This experiment determines the premium that I am willing to pay to shop in a Best Buy, Target or Filene’s Basement without dealing with hordes of suburbanites and their children. That premium is 6.25%. Also: Many shoppers said [...]

et in arcadia ego

Arcadia: Tom Stoppard is a favorite among directors. Partly because his plays are really good and very popular, of course, but also because they’re always deep and intricate. Arcadia is Stoppard at his most intellectual: a play about mathematical discoveries, debates over scholarship, the death of Enlightenment and the birth of Romanticism. It takes place [...]

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