Tag: culture
member name: Mike Ball
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August 08, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Not too long ago I saw a television commercial for what has to be one of the most important industrial breakthroughs in human history. Even though major advances of this sort are not really the focus of . . .
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December 20, 2007 01:06 PM EST --
What do you suppose Paris Hilton wants for Christmas?
I recently read in the New York Post (sometimes I like to go slumming - what can I say?) that the girl who is Famous For Being Famous just wants . . .
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May 01, 2008 10:46 AM EDT --
This afternoon my friend and I dropped into a friendly neighborhood tavern to grab some lunch and to watch the Detroit Red Wings CRUSH the Colorado Avalanche in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Now, . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the relative degrees of difficulty we guys experience in dealing with women. You may recall that I suggested that every woman be assigned a number, exhibited prominently, . . .
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February 14, 2008 01:26 AM EST --
As some of you know, I have a pretty cool day job at a small library. One of the best things about this job is that when the local schools shut down for bad weather, the library shuts down too.
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February 21, 2008 03:02 PM EST --
As anyone who has been around me at all is aware, I play the guitar. I play it constantly, enthusiastically, and just well enough that I usually avoid being attacked by angry villagers with pitchforks. . . .
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May 28, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
This morning before breakfast my wife lobbed a verbal grenade into my coffee cup. She asked, "What do you think of my friend, Brunhilde?"
(Please note, my wife doesn't actually have . . .
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September 02, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
Who'd have thought good crops Could come from a bad seed?
It was a pretty good line in a really good poem, entitled "Look At Me," by a seventeen year old African-American poet named Donald. This . . .
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January 27, 2008 07:52 PM EST --
I have the privilege of coaching several creative writing groups, two of which are made up of middle and high school students. These are kids who are as incredibly gifted as they are depressingly young . . .
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February 10, 2008 12:31 PM EST --
Once again it's time for Dr. Mike to break out the old copy of Psychology for the Complete Idiot and find answers to the problems threatening the very well being of my readers.
Dear Dr. Mike, . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:58 PM EDT --
Each Spring, as Old Man Winter starts thinking about getting his frosty white butt out of town for Spring Break, we Michigaroonies begin to experience a phenomenon that's unique to states where we . . .
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March 25, 2009 11:18 PM EDT --
Last week I started to tell you about the time I decided to join the Few, the Proud, the Phone Book Deliverers. I had passed the initial rigorous screening (I could prove that I had a pulse) and I had . . .
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March 04, 2009 01:53 PM EST --
Last week I wrote about my new-found fondness for the popular social networking site Facebook. This is an online resource originally designed for college students, a place where the young scholar could . . .
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August 06, 2009 05:02 PM EDT --
OK, this is going to come as a shock to a lot of you. It is not the kind of thing I ordinarily discuss here. In fact the only reason I'm doing it at all is that, now that President Obama has everything . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:07 PM EDT --
"So what's on your minds, guys?" It was a really open-ended question to ask a group of incarcerated teenage boys, and the range of answers I got pretty much lived up to my expectations;
"Eatin' . . .
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July 26, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
I'm only about eight chapters into my copy of the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so I'm not going to write any sort of review here. Besides, I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone. . . .
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April 16, 2008 03:27 PM EDT --
Last week I talked about selling all my crap on CraigsList . In the process of doing that I have discovered that not everyone on the World Wide Web is completely honest.
I know. It shocked me too. . . .
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July 03, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
There is something I get to do on the Fourth of July that is even more fun than all the Ballpark Franks that will be ritually sacrificed to charcoal flames in our nation's parks and beaches and backyards. . . .
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August 12, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
Last week I mentioned that men can't help looking at women, especially when a little bit of cleavage is involved. I admit that this is about as startling as saying that the sun rises in the East or . . .
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September 16, 2009 03:31 PM EDT --
My son is going to get married in a little less than a month. For Nan and I this is the coolest thing ever, since we are crazy about his fiance, her parents, her brother, her friends - and her taste in . . .
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