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A Scandi Fred Flintstone

Hampus Granstrom is quite the shade tree mechanic. He’s apparently based in northern Sweden, so the shade trees are really tall, and throw as much snow as shade. Additional information about him is not easy to find, and what I could discover was in gorny gorny umlauty lingo,

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Is Across the Bridge a Great Movie? Beats Me

I’m not sure if Across the Bridge is a great movie. I’m pretty sure it’s not. It might just be a good movie, not a great one. Then again, maybe it’s a so-so movie, and I haven’t noticed it. In any case, it’s a great story, I tell

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Ode To a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

We’re in Merida, Mexico. Doing the Yucatango. Figuring things out. Mexico decided to be extremely Mexican on Sunday. Forecast: 103. Electricity: Coy. Disappearing puckishly from time to time. No dear John letter, either. Just wait and wonder in the dark. Now of course there are many things you

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The One-Hit Wonder Wonder

If we held a One-Hit Wonder Sweepstakes, I’d enter William DeVaughn, place some side bets, and clean up. Let’s specify the rules for deciding the most wondrous one-hit wonder. First, it has a to be a big hit. It has to come out of every passing car’s radio.

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Hunting Mosquitoes With a Blunderbuss

Perhaps I’m more disconnected from regular life than the average Joe, but look at that video. Did you know the LLM thang had progressed this far, this fast? Internet wags who stubbornly still call it nothing but glorified autofill might want to rethink their opinions. Although no one

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Are You a Farmer? Are You a Star?

Wet Willie on the Midnight Special back in 1974. Aw yeah. To modern ears, the musical production can sound  “thin.” Recent recordings don’t have any dynamics in them anymore. It’s mixed to make every second of it just as loud as every other second. There’s not much air

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Greatest Hits

Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor

Show No Enthusiasm; Don’t Complain

Winter came like a postcard a long time ago. The snow drifted down in slow motion, the big, fat flakes parachuting in and accumulating gently

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a boot stomping on a human face forever

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

People do get good at things. It’s more than interesting to get a peek at someone at the top of their game — no matter

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Sagas and Compilations