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A lot of people make New Year’s resolutions that somehow involve food. Mostly this involves eating far less of it, particularly stuff like donuts, potato chips, or just about anything that can be had at a vending machine.
This year, I, too, made a resolution of sorts that has to do with food. Except I’ve resolved [...]

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Apparently, there’s something about January. For the 2nd year in a row, I’ve been asked to feature read in this frozen lead-off month, to get the ball rolling on the 2010 literary year here in town. Or so I tell myself.
This Wednesday January 13th, I’ll be reading at Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry in Cleveland [...]

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For the next few days, my family and I will be celebrating Christmas. Yes, Christmas, in accordance with the old Julian calendar.
(And who knew that there’s an entry for Bozic (the Serbian word for Christmas) on the Urban Dictionary page.)
At least it’s a white Christmas this year…

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I was in a sports coma yesterday, with the genius NHL Winter Classic game in Boston and the Buckeye’s Rose Bowl win, and so too preoccupied to post something on the first day of 2010. So now that the sports frenzy has subsided, I want to take a moment and wish all my readers and [...]

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It’s not every day that the humble CSU philosophy department makes the news, but this day, apparently, is not like other days.

This story in the PD says that the entire 19th floor of Rhodes Tower will be off limits for 2 whole years while crews remove asbestos that was exposed when a few ceiling tiles [...]

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Each December brings the usual long look back in the year’s rearview mirror. But once every decade we go even further. The other day I saw the first of what are sure to be a slew of shiny magazines and supplements attempting to sum up the key events of the last 10 years.
This video, which I [...]

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Hey, look! I’m updating my blog!
The Christmas Ale song is back again this year, albeit a shortened version.

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the fact that a Pacific Ocean typhoon has been named after my fair little burg here in Ohio has me feeling oddly… oh, I don’t know… proud? (That’s just wrong, right?)

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This Friday and Saturday, the 25th and 26th, there’s a party happening on the lower level of the Detroit-Superior bridge. Twice a year for the past few years, the county engineer’s office has opened that level of the bridge to the public to meander about and discover new vistas of the city and river below. [...]

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