I’ve had several friends talk about places that serve chicken and waffles. I was going to try to make this at home, but I didn’t have eggs or flour for frying up the chicken. So…Improvise! Instead of fried chicken on top of a waffle, I decided to grill the chicken and put it IN...
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I don’t have the TV on but let me guess what’s on… NYE celebration – most likely NYE NYC Times Square. Clean cut host – male. All female correspondents talking to Times Square party goers -both giving generic question and answers. Cut to – trendy Top 40 song performance, ode to NYE, sponsorship portion...
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Today, I drove to 4 different Best Buy stores to take a look at the DVD/Blu-ray sections for work. I’ve done this for well going on 8 years. I’ve seen changes in the store but not like recent visits in the past 6 months. Best Buy used to be Music and DVD in the...
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Today I’ll be talking about anime fan culture and why we’ve experienced a growth in recent years. In the early 2000s, I cringed when Kevin Smith would go on Leno and show what he filmed at San Diego Comic-Con. Kevin would find the craziest people to interview on film to get a laugh on...
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I attended Anime North this past weekend in Toronto Ontario. I spotted not one, but two pay phones. The first payphone was in a restaurant and the second one was near our booth at the convention center. The cost to make a call is 50 cents. Seeing these really makes you realize how dated...
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In Junior High, my Dad would sometimes make the sack lunches. He made the sandwiches he liked – which would be a bologna sandwich with Grey Poupon mustard and tomatoes. I couldn’t see the tomatoes because there was a layer of black pepper covering them. Before you ask, no. No one would trade lunches...
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I took this picture when I was in a Tokyo subway station about 6 years ago. I finally got to see in person the international ads that actors do for other countries. Seems bit creepy that Jack Bauer is doing surveillance on school kids and their energy bars. By the power of the YouTubes...
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There used to be smart, hip mags that catered to Gen X cause it was the 90′s. I mean come on, Details in the early 90′s was the fucking zenith. Then came April 1997 with the first issue of Maxim hitting the US shores. I remember this cause I managed the magazine section of...
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I’ve had a web site since college in 95. It was primarily a collection of comic strip clip art and wav files from the cartoon The Tick and the sci-fi series Babylon 5. Then I had a Geocities page. Then a Tripod page. I’ve tried LiveJournal 3 times with one of the times having...
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