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My doppelgängers

dop·pel·gäng·er /ˈdäpəlˌgaNGər/ Noun An apparition or double of a living person. Via Wikipedia.org. In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger (German, literally a “double goer”) (pronounced [ˈdɔpəlˌɡɛŋɐ] ( listen)) is a paranormal double of a living person. It also describes the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no […]

Learning Languages

Bettes Davis Quotes

Frank Sinatra Quotes

“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”

False Binaries

So my buddy… let’s just call him Wisdom from Chicago talked to me about false binaries. I was caught in a false dilemma: there were two options, but I didn’t believe that I could achieve them both. It is interesting when I use fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice. Wisdom from Chicago […]

You know NBC’s ratings are bad when…

via EW.com. You know NBC’s ratings are bad when… NBC affiliate airs ‘Matlock’ instead of network’s Thursday shows An affiliate decides to air a 21-year-old Matlock movie instead of the network’s Thursday night programming. You know NBC’s ratings are really bad when… Matlock‘s ratings are not much different than the regular shows. On Thursday, Cleveland’s WKYC-TV opted to run a 1992 […]

Taking ‘Hunger Games’ into their own hands

via LATimes.com. For the love of the book. After reading “The Hunger Games,” four teens wanted the story to continue. So in 2010 they put it to video, starring themselves. Now their 10 installments have been viewed 4.5M times. Duncan Rule discovered “The Hunger Games” shortly after the novel came out four years ago. He […]

This Is Why So Many Professional Athletes Are Going Broke

via BusinessInsider.com This Is Why So Many Professional Athletes Are Going Broke The average professional athlete in the United States makes more money in one season than the average American does in a lifetime. Despite this, the pros are going bankrupt at an alarming rate. The following infographic explores the reasons why so many of […]

Where the Hell is Matt?

,  One of my inspirations to starting this blog was the travel blogger Matt Harding – “Where the Hell is Matt?” He has inspired parodies, followers like myself, spoken at conferences and taken his passion to the Internet. Since 2005, Matt has created a series of videos traveling the world, viewing historical sites, and experiencing life. He […]

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 sweeps the Razzies

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 sweeps the Razzies and that ain’t the punchline. So I am a Twihard, a Twilighter, a fanpire, one who loves all things Twilight. For fuck sake, when I was living in Australia I paid an ungodly sum of money to buy the books. Twilight sweeping the Razzies has to be […]