Category: play

  • godzilla bless autofill

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    The Seanster and I were exchanging giddy text messages about the latest movie teaser for the upcoming Godzilla movie. Turns out my phone not only knows how to spell “Godzilla” already, it autofills “Godzilla” after I type the first three letters, because obviously who would ever stop after typing just “God?” Read.

  • crossover

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    It’s been a good day here on the Lost Continent Railway. The track gang has put in a solid two days of work this weekend, finishing up the crossover at Overcoat Junction ahead of schedule. Honestly, the chief engineer was sure this was going to take all week to complete, but he was poking around… Read.

  • hospitality

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    When I was a boy, our family used to pile into the car about once a month and make the two-hour drive from our home in central Wisconsin to visit my father’s parents in Door County where, mere minutes after we got out of the car and were welcomed at the door, my grandmother would… Read.

  • foamy

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    “Bottle Bomb” is a term in the homebrewing hobby that refers to beer so enthusiastically carbonated that it blows the cap right off the bottle, and sometimes even bursts the bottle itself. I haven’t brewed a batch yet that produced a bottle bomb, but I came pretty close with a batch I brewed last July.… Read.

  • cheeseball

    It’s been kind of a long week, so it wasn’t surprising that last night after we got home, we kicked off our shoes, found a couple of cocktails and settled in to the most comfortable furniture in our Little Red House to watch Rio Bravo. I’m sure something’s wrong with the commas in that sentence,… Read.

  • trivial

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    Remember the board game Trivial Pursuit? More to the point: Remember board games? Big, cartoon playing field printed on cardboard? Plastic game tokens? (Did you have a favorite?) Goofy rules? (You made up your own as the game became familiar, right?) We’ve still got every board game we’ve played over the years, even the ones… Read.

  • House of Cards

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    On Friday night, when many of the people I knew were celebrating Valentine’s Day with dinner at a favorite restaurant or some other kind of night on the town, My Darling B and I had pizza delivered and wolfed the whole thing down while we watched House Of Cards, because nothing says romance like a… Read.

  • SNL

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    Four Star Video was having a sale last weekend and we were there to browse anyway, so we spent an extra-long time wandering through the aisles, poking through the cases and reading all the labels. Well, not all of them. There’s at least a million six DVD cases in the basement alone, so I stuck… Read.

  • The Train

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    Last night’s movie was the The Train, maybe my favorite Burt Lancaster film ever because it has two of the most awesome subjects you could ever put in a movie, Burt Lancaster and steam locomotives. The film is based on the true World War Two story of the Nazis stealing paintings from the museums of… Read.

  • Field Notes From A Catastrophe

    I’ve found I can’t help but read news stories and books about global climate change. They literally compel me to stop what I’m doing and read, I guess because the premise that we are poisoning the only planet we will ever have to live on is so obvious that I would always like to know… Read.

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