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How old am I?  So old that JCPenny is mining my precious, precious memories of the greatest teen movie of all time to sell back-to-school clothes.  At first I thought it was some Disney, High-School-Musical-like remake of the movie and then kinda sighed in relief that it was just a commercial. Clearly, although the commercial [...]

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You may be aware that the Mennonite Church is having trouble attracting new people.  We could go into a long sociological explanation but let’s not.  Because this is a failure of marketing.  And so I would like to encourage Mennonite Church USA to follow the lead of the Mormons and the Catholics and create a [...]

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Breaking news!  The most beautiful couple in all the world are about to give birth to what will surely be the world’s most beautiful twins to add to their UN-like collection of progeny.  Angelina has checked into a French hospital.
Two comments:

Brad: surely the most perfect accessory a pregnant woman could ever want
Angelina: making pregnant women [...]

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Little bored at work?  It’s a Friday afternoon on a beautiful summer day but the boss has you doing the TPS reports or you’re stuck going over the charter statement for that BPM project.
Why don’t you read some classic literature done as Microsoft Office products?  No worries.  Even close up, it looks like you are [...]

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They aren’t all music-related but they are all pretty damn funny.

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By this time Monday, every woman and New-York gay in America will have seen the movie Sex and The City. Seriously. This thing is going to make a bazillion dollars. It’s insane! And I’m going to see it too.
Because I am a tool to corporate America and its commercialized onscreen romances.
But I already [...]

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I have resisted mightly, strenuously even, from commenting or linking to or in any way acknowledging the article that every navel-gazing blog and meta-media commentator has been buzzing about for the last week. But I can’t resist anymore. it’s been Chinese water torture … drip, drip, drip … for seven days. [...]

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Calgary Herald (via Slog) is running a story on the resurgence of the headscarf as a fashion statement. The Herald — giving some pointers on how to wear your latest Louis Vuitton accessory — tries very hard to posit this latest fashion craze as some sort of harbinger of a new administration:
It reminds us [...]

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– Catch the Mennonite and Amish quit exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.  Then wonder how much you could get for the graduation quilt Grandma made for you. [Exhibit runs through July 13]
– Dance your ass off to the best Mennonite electronic dance band since … well, ever. [Oops, too late.  You missed them.  But [...]

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Randomly listening to radio stations in a ZipCar is great fun … because I get to hear all sorts of music that I would never, ever, in a million years come across on my own (since I don’t listen to the radio). And every once in a while, I hear something I really like; [...]

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