I love comic strips, I have since my mother gave me some money to buy books at the bookfair in first grade and I bought Garfield strip compilation books instead. I've always hated Zippy the Pinhead, though, but I've never really been able to articulate why, I just knew I did ( Read more... )

Lost power last Friday morning, didn't get it back until Saturday night. Slept in my room Friday night where it was 42 degrees, no fun. Still don't have telecommunications of any sort, so I'm at Umass Lowell right now studying for a final. Not having up-to-date baseball info is killing me ( Read more... )

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Bill Simmons is amazing. He writes for ESPN as "Sports Guy" and sometimes does a reader mailbag where he answers questions like this ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9myhIDq_X0

DOUBLE TRIPLE FLOWER? UNHEARD OF ( Read more... )

Being sick for the entire summer is the worst. For those that don't know, I have Ulcerative Colitis, it's not a life-threatening disease or anything, but it is something I'll have for life, and nothing I did caused it, approximately one in six hundred americans just have it, and there really is no rhyme or reason as to why. Basically though, I ( Read more... )

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Pears seriously got the shaft. Why are they nationally loved liked apples? Why don't you drink pear juice with your breakfast? Maybe some pear sauce with your meal? Pear pie on thanksgiving? Carmel pears at the county fair? I never went on a pear picking field trip in elementary school. Seriously, where is the love?

Also, I miss ribs.

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