The Best Of Me, 2010

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Goodbye 2010. I can’t say I’ll miss you, but I will remember you well. In a year where blogging became an afterthought to work and academia, and in which, to my own horror and disbelief, You Tube became my friend, these are what I consider the best of the lot. …

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Leave The Prepubescent Boys On You Tube, Or In Middle School, Where They Belong

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Celebrating the year of little cele­bri­ties  (I like to call them cele-bity’s ), Ellen DeGe­ne­res has for­med a record label, and her first artist, middle school heart throb, Greyson Chance, has been scraped off You Tube. Ellen, a staunch Bie­be­rite, knows there is a great demo­graphic for this — girls age 9 to 12, grand­mothers, …

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Champions Do Act Like That

Yes, sometimes champions do act like that. Especially when an idiot calls a foot fault at match point in the U.S. Open Dear Serena, Next time, do like the much beloved Roger Federa, remain calm, don’t point your racket, and say quietly, in a non-threatening way “blah blah blah” “Fuck …

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Old School Friday Sunday

And a tardy Old School Friday to you too. The theme this week, or last week as it is now Sunday, was Greatest of All Time. I’d like to think myself competent enough to make that choice, I’m not. I’ve got too little behind me, and the years to come …

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My Achy Breaky Heart

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I try to keep up with that reader but I sometimes fail miserably, so having people to act like Deb (my old roommate who used to scroll BE for me so I didn’t have to), to point me to items I might not have picked up in a timely way …

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