Category: Opinions/Editorials
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Weekends – My Favorite Oscar-Nominated Animated Short (Which Did Not Win)
A friend invited me to watch a complete showing of the 2019 Oscar-nominated animated short films last Friday night at the beautiful Normal Theater. I didn’t know anything about the nominees, but I thought it sounded like a fun time so I went. All of the nominees were very good in their own particular way,…
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All Hail Jeff Passan! … Wait, Who’s Jeff Passan?
I’ve written before about my love of The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz. They are a daily radio show on ESPN that take a slightly different approach to sports. Often hilarious, they are also always entertaining. A new guest debuted today–Jeff Passan. Passan spent over a decade with Yahoo Sports and just joined ESPN…
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I Once Made An Amazing Basketball Play … That My Coach Hated
Though I now love basketball as an adult, I wasn’t into it at all as a child. In fact, I didn’t really start playing basketball until I entered seventh grade. I’m guessing a four inch growth spurt (also, my last growth spurt) prompted this interest in the sport. I liked it a lot, more than…
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Something Awkward Happened To Me At Work Today
As a teacher, there are ample opportunities for one to embarrass oneself. I’m in front of teenagers about five hours a day, every weekday, for ten months out of the year. In the past, I’ve always been worried about unstoppable bodily functions. I won’t go into specifics, but you get the idea. That’s always been my…
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The Worst Football Hit I Ever Experienced
If you had the pleasure of playing football with me, you know I wasn’t the top talent to ever go through Beardstown High School. In fact, it seemed as though I got progressively worse as my experience grew. I’m joking. … Mostly. I loved running the football. Loved it. Defense, though? I didn’t care for…
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Dan Le Batard, Alexa, and Me
Alexa and the Amazon Echo always kind of freaked me out. Amazon is pretty direct in admitting that the Echo is always listening for “Alexa,” its activation phrase. And then, about a year ago, stories started circulating that people could hear a faint laughter emitting from it. This unsettled me to the point that it…
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Ben Affleck … I’ll Miss You
You may remember that I’m a strong supporter of Ben Affleck’s Batman. In fact, I wrote a lengthy article a few years ago encouraging Affleck to stick with the role. While Michael Keaton will always be my favorite Batman, with Adam West coming in second, I thought Affleck playing an older, beaten-up Batman worked really…
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Bill Maher Is Mostly Wrong, But He’s Also a Little Bit Right
I read an article over at ScreenRant describing an editorial by Bill Maher basically taking comic book fans to task. More specifically, taking adult comic book fans to task. This seems to be a complicated story. It appears to have started when Bill Maher wrote a blog post called “Adulting.” In it, he basically reacts…
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This Season Of The Handmaid’s Tale Will Be My Last
We’re not Hulu subscribers, so when everyone heaped praise upon The Handmaid’s Tale, we had to wait until it came out on disc to experience it for ourselves. We were able to finally watch it a few months ago, and we can attest that it deserved all of the acclimation it received. Sure, it was…
