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Read more : Boxes Full of Halloween
Halloween came in a box when I was growing up. Or at least, most of my Halloween costumes did. The moment the first leaf…
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Read more : Uh-Oh, SpaghettiOs!
It’s no secret that I’m fond of revisiting my past. Recently, this temporal wanderlust was prompted by my taste buds. A sudden craving for one…
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Read more : Fill it to the Rim: The Brim Recollection
American media is riddled with sales pitches that promise immediately gratifying health, happiness, and satisfaction. As intended, this kind of manipulation certainly worked on…
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Read more : Time Travel Addict
Sometimes, as I fade off to sleep, I revisit settings from my childhood. I’m able to conjure up places where I’ve lived with such…
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Read more : Of Cartoon Mice and Men…and Cats
My household was late to the cable television game, so in the late 1970s and early 80s I took what I could get cartoon-wise.…
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Read more : Being Jacob Marley
Stave One When I was about five or six, I found myself in handcuffs on the day after Christmas. I blame the ghost of…
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Read more : Shark’s in the Water, Our Shark
When channel surfing, Jaws is one of those movies that always knocks me off of my surfboard. No matter how far into the movie…
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Read more : Smoke Up Artoo!
In the lean days before home video releases of the Star Wars films, television appearances by the folks from the galaxy far, far away…
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Read more : A Walrus Man by Any Other Name
Aside from the presence of the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, most of the unrest in the Star Wars universe is generally attributed…
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Read more : The Machine is Always Greener
Having just returned from the arcade with his father, Aaron bounded up the flight of stairs that separated our apartments breathless and eager to…
