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Well, you can’t say I didn’t give it a good run when I made my Golden Globe predictions.  I got a lot of them right, but I got the main ones wrong.  After all, I don’t think anyone expected Avatar to make as much money as it has, nor did I expect James Cameron to […]

I think we’re all familiar with airport security.  Everyone who has ever flown has been subject to every sort of X-ray, interview, pat-down, feel-up, and shake-down imaginable.  However, that security was downright cold and distant compared to what happens to travelers at Japan’s Narita International Airport.  You see, that’s one of the only airports in […]

Valentine’s Day is always a special occasion.  If you’re in a relationship, prepare yourself to buy your sweetie something nice and expensive.  No matter if it’s a card, flowers, candy, or even heart-shaped pizza, the gift industry’s got you by the short hairs and are twisting your wallet.  That’s why Domino’s Pizza in Japan is […]

One of the strangest homes in New York City’s stylish Greenwich Village is 75 1/2 Bedford Street.  It’s called the skinniest house in New York, and it measures only 9.5 feet wide by 42 feet deep.  It was built in 1873 on what was originally an alleyway between 75 Bedford and 77 Bedford.  Well, you […]

When my dog was alive, he had one outfit that he wore.  It was a little red wool sweater that we put on him when it was very cold weather and it was time to go outside.  That was it.  However, some dogs have an outfit for every day of the week, and some dog […]

As someone who absolutely loves sarcasm and who uses it pretty much constantly, I can tell you that the hardest thing you can do as a writer in the first person (as I am right now) is to convey sarcasm in text.  I mean, sarcasm is so dependent on tone of voice and facial expression […]

When they say they don’t build things like they used to, that covers pretty much everything.  From cars to computers, your house is full of things that are both A) built to fail and B) harder to repair than the consumer goods of previous generations.  It’s an intentional design by consumer electronics companies, who want […]

Good news for all you smokers and ex-smokers out there.  If you’re worried about catching lung cancer from your vice of choice, there’s two things you can do to give yourself clean, healthy lungs.  The first and most important step is to quit, if you haven’t already.  The second weapon in the war against lung […]

From the Duh Files:  researchers from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, lead by Dr. David Dunstan, have determined that watching too much TV is bad for your health.  Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen; you’ve proven something that doctors have been saying since television was invented.  Apparently, people who watch over four hours of television […]

Avatar is a full-fledged box office phenomenon.  It’s already the second-highest grossing movie of all time, just behind Titanic.  Both those films were written, directed, and produced by James Cameron, who also did Aliens and The Terminator and a bunch of other brilliant movies.  However, Avatar‘s plot about a depleted earth and humanity’s invasion of […]

After years of famine and massive families, the Chinese government instituted a fairly strict one couple, one child policy.  Since it began in 1979, the Chinese government estimates it has prevented over 250 million people from being added to the already overpopulated Chinese countryside.  However, there’s been an unintended side-effect.  By 2020, there may be […]

One of the interesting facts I mentioned about Pete Carroll taking the Seattle Seahawks job is that Carroll’s last coaching position in the NFL was with the Seahawks.  Interestingly enough, Carroll’s right-hand man at USC, Lane Kiffin, is taking over for his former boss.  Kiffin, the son of NFL legend Monte Kiffin, is taking the […]