Don't Think, Just Do It!

                               Dan pressed an eye to the camcorder's viewfinder, aimed the lens up at me, and flashed the thumbs up.  I vaulted each leg carefully over the railing of the rusty fire-escape, holding on for dear life, as I gazed down at the dumpster below.  Dan had thrown both lids open, and...

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A Trip Dahntahn

                 It was unseasonably warm and sunny when I woke up, so I called up my brother and proposed a scheme to urban-trip. "Instead of frittering around our apartments," I said,"we'll spend the Saturday afternoon zoned, wandering around the city." He was game.                    ...

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Some Things Can't Be Unread

Some things can't be unseen. Sometimes, we stumble upon these five simple words when surfing the net, and understand that they sound a warning.  A warning that might precede a mildly shocking or heart-breaking image, or perhaps a vulgar video that might make your sweet ol' gran cringe, or a squeamish co-worker lose his appetite.  It's a caveat thrown around so lightly these days, that...

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Angels in the Outfield?

"YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL!" Slow your roll, Ham.  It's been 23 years since "The Sandlot" coined the end-all burn little bros the world over grew up spouting off in dugouts since Little League, but it doesn't bring quite the same heat these days.  In fact, it hardly qualifies as a burn in 2016. That's because girls across the globe are proving with talent and opportunity, baseball ain't...

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