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I am a maiden, cold and stately. I think I am sufficiently decayed. I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I am a Pirate King! I am the monarch of the sea, the ruler of the Queen's Navee. I am the Captain of the Pinafore, and a right good captain, too. I am right, and you are right, and all is right as right can be. I am in reasonable health, and happy to meet you all once more. I'm a genuine philanthropist — all other kinds are sham. I am a little boy of five! I am a courtier grave and serious, who is about to kiss your hand. I am an orphan boy. I am a very deaf old man, and hear you very badly.

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April 2023 Reading List

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March 2023 Reading List

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Caffeine/Theanine Ratio in Tea: Why It Matters, and Why It’s So Hard to Measure

I recently read an online article, supposedly vetted by experts, that claimed that white tea has no caffeine. Yeah. Add that to misleading articles … Caffeine/Theanine Ratio in Tea: Why It Matters, and Why It’s So Hard to Measure Tea is very complicated! Type of tea, leaf type, brewing method, brewing time… all of these (and more) can have an effect on whether a tea will amp you up or relax you.

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Caffeine/Theanine Ratio in Tea: Why It Matters, and Why It's So Hard to Measure

Tea is very complicated! Type of tea, leaf type, brewing method, brewing time… all of these (and more) can have an effect on whether a tea will amp you up or relax you.

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Bad Mix CD

I found this post from April 2015 in my drafts and decided to finally post it. There’s a video that I think about every time I have a conversation about mix tapes or hear Escape (The Piña Colada Song) or am inspired by Escape (The Piña Colada Song) to announce, “I am INTO CHAMPAGNE.”  So, you know, frequently. Every time I search for this video it’s an arduous process.  Today I tried searching…

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Oscars 2023: The Other Ones

I should at least mention the movies I saw before it occurred to me to blog this year’s Oscars movies: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story I’m so mad that this wasn’t eligible for Oscar nominations. All the Roku Channel had to do was briefly release it in theaters! It had an original song! It coulda been a contenda! Weird Al could have had an Oscar! The Batman This is a movie I have seen. I don’t…

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Oscars 2023: All Quiet on the Western Front

I had seen parts of this when Jason watched it on Netflix, but I wanted to see it on the big screen. It was harrowing. This is powerfully anti-war and addresses the romanticizing of war with how painful and frightening and filthy and horrible war actually is. I spent two and a half hours watching people be killed and maimed in all of the worst possible ways. I think the characters died of pretty…

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Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once

There was so much that happened in this film that I’m finding it hard to process all of it and really dig down to the messages of the film. It was a LOT of action, and it was a LOT of fun, and it was just generally a LOT. Overall I think it was about kindness and confidence and overcoming generational trauma, and those were all good. If we were having a party this year, the menu would need to…

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Oscars 2023: Turbo

There is no rule that a snail can’t race in the Indy 500, so there’s probably no rule that this ten-year-old animated film about a super fast snail can’t win Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars. Should it win? Of course. Will it win? The odds are low, but never impossible.

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February 2023 Reading List

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Oscars 2023: Top Gun - Maverick

During the early part of each year I try to see as many Oscar-nominated films as I can. I thought I’d record some of my thoughts on each one. So here are the notes I sent my sister while watching this one: Maverick needs therapy. He doesn’t seem to have dealt with Goose’s death. He was definitely in love with Goose. He has a shrine. HOW IS THIS MOVIE NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD, MUCH LESS…

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January 2023 Reading List

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If I ever need to tell someone who I am in 30 seconds or less I will show them this moment 

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Are you watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? You should.

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Dream: The Oscars I dreamt that my dad, sister and I wanted to go to the Oscars, so we did.

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Dream: Jurassic Park

I had a dream where as the events were unfolding, I was aware that they had inspired a new Jurassic Park movie.  I don’t really have any illusion that I would survive an adventure movie but I begged one woman at the meeting to tell me I wasn’t going to be the one who gets get eaten first.  She just looked at me a little sadly like, “Oh, sorry, I can’t.”  Then she told me, “Maybe you should try…

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Fountain Pens

[1] Footnotes https://brilliantdisguise.wordpress.com http://www.gouletpens.com/ https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mondaymatchupgiveaway/ I am not fancy and artistic like the Instagrammers.  I am basically a hipster but instead of lugging an antique typewriter to a coffee shop, I’m taking an even larger technological step backwards.  Take THAT, hipsters.  I dare you to switch to quills and…

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Deutschklasse mit meine Schwester

Deutschklasse mit meine Schwester

Becky and I signed up for another Beginning German class. Last time we enrolled in a German class, it was cancelled between the time we ordered our books and the time they arrived. This time we ordered the books and it didn’t get cancelled. The books arrived and it didn’t get cancelled. Once we were less than 24 hours away from the start of class, it occurred to us that this might actually be…

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