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How to (not) disappear completely

Like many of you, I've been reading a lot about the Kathy Sierra debacle the past few days. And because I've been asked more than a few times how I managed to continue forward here on Sweetney after my own (melo)dramatic troll-related incident(s), I just wanted to pass on what could be loosely described as my private, previously unwritten methodology of sane blogging, 2007 A.T. (After Troll): 1. I do not look at where my traffic is coming from anymore. Ever. 2. I have specifically asked others to NOT tell me of troll-like behavior going on elsewhere that is related...

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The Miller Metamorphosis

I've been far too busy recently to have many deep thoughts about much of anything, but if there's been one Big, Weighty Matter I've been mulling over in my head at all of late, its most certainly this: I am utterly horrified by what's become of Dennis Miller. And I can't be alone in that. For indeed there was a time, somewhere way back in the roaring 1990s, when Miller was at the absolute top of his game. His hyper-referential, ultra-postmodern-rifftastic shtick was fresh back then, and Miller carved out a whole new path for comedy that almost every single...

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Even froggies get the blues

Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Kermit the Frog turned to a life full of drugs, alcohol and sex. His fall to rock-bottom was quick and unrelenting. I am equal parts disturbed and amused... Okay, maybe that's more like a 60/40 split. Courtesy of sadkermit.com

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Somehow all of this is Bruce Willis's fault

Question: When exactly did I become such a pussy? I ask this in light of an event that took place this weekend. On Saturday night Jamie wanted to watch a movie, and we quickly skimmed through the available TiVoed options: King Kong, which is something like three-and-a-half hours long, and who has time for three-and-a-half hours worth of a ginormous lovelorn aircraft-swatting ape? Pass. A History of Violence, which I nixed as too intense for Saturday night film viewing, and Walk The Line, which Jamie for some reason wasn't in the mood for. This left the Bruce Willis/Mos Def vehicle...

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Rebirth

I spent most of the weekend digging out our front garden, excavating the dead remains of last year's blooms to make room for the new growth. A few photos of Spring's recent progress: I swear, all of this has come up in the past 5 days. Its all sort of miraculous to me, each and every single year.

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Knock-Knock!

Who's there? Preschooler humor Preschooler humor who? Preschooler humor you glad I didn't say banana? Think that makes no sense? Woah nelly, have a I got a video for you: As Steve Martin rightly noted, comedy is not pretty, folks.

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Balancing act

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been around these parts as much as I used to -- that my posting has been lighter (and “lite”-r), and I guess there are several reasons for that. The first being that I've been throwing myself headlong into MamaPop -- building and tinkering and adjusting and organizing, trying to make it super mega awesome and something that stands on its own two feet, beyond even my own identity or that of any of the individual writers. We're getting there, even after only being up and running five short months, and I...

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