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If You’re Very Lucky (opens the original)
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I attended a movie premiere last night. This is a rare occasion for me both because I’m rarely invited to such events and because I usually decline such invitations when they do come my way because how good could the movie be if I’m on the guest list? Last night’s, however, was one I could not turn down.My buddy Michael Showalter has a new movie out called Verity, based on a very popular book I’d never heard of, which is a knock on me, not the book. I’m not going to say much about the movie beca
I Have Been Poisoned! (opens the original)
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The rain, she falls. The wind, she blows. We’re now on our third day of a Nor’easter. I love a good storm. This one has been terrific. Plenty of good gusts and fat raindrops and minor damage – some small branches down, the recycling bin blew over and scattered empty jars and boxes around, the small anxiety that comes from wondering if there will be enough milk in the morning or if we should brave the roads for a trip to the grocery store? Modern life has made us largely impervious to these sorts
Epilogue (opens the original)
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Today marks another ending for me. After many years of hosting the Obscure podcast, in which I read a work of classic literature aloud and comment on it as I go, I have concluded our fourth book, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. And now I am concluding the podcast.I am well aware that most of you have no interest in such a boring-sounding endeavor, which is half the reason I named it Obscure. From the outset, I knew it would be the kind of passion project that never makes any money and a
Hobby Lobbying (opens the original)
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Yesterday, after devoting several hours to losing at online poker (legally! Sort of!), following a career of losing at online poker, I had the following epiphany: I am not good at this. It is an epiphany I have almost daily for the last several years.Before you begin worrying for my financial health, I play what are called “micro stakes, which means I’m playing for sums that more often measured in cents rather than dollars. I’m playing for about the smallest amount of money one can. Which furthe
Game On (opens the original)
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There’s a chess term called “Zugzwang,” which occurs when a player has no good legal moves. Wherever they move, and whatever they do, will worsen their position. While we have oft been told that our president plays chess while his opponents play checkers, nobody ever said he plays chess well. Which may explain why the Trump administration is currently in Zugzwang.They’re underwater on every position. From immigration to Iran, our grandmaster president is less Bobby Fischer, more fishy boob. Even
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