Where All the Merry-Go-Rounds Go At?
You know what they say, “What goes around comes around.” This is bullshit, at least on the playground in the 2000's. Back in school, my favorite piece of playground equipment was the merry-go-roun...
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Thanksgiving's Over: Back to Being Vegan
Thanksgiving is done gone but not forgotten. I like the leftovers. Some go bad, like deviled eggs, but some get better with age, like my sweet potatoes. I still have some. I'm going to keep some for 3...
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Review: National Sunday Law
Written by A. Jan Marcussen AT Publications / 2006 / 70 pages Some months ago, I found a book on my doorstep when I came home from work. I thought to myself, “If someone is going to go out of their...
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Review: Nong Shim Shrimp Crackers
Last Saturday night I stayed home with an upset stomach. At one-something in the morning, Christy and Hayden and Dave and Adam Mistretta came through the door, woke me up and greeted me with some Budw...
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Turning My Crack House into a Crack Home
Aww man.. What a month. I finished up my office. As you can tell, there's quite a difference. I did like how I had a ball room like they have at Chuck-E-Cheese, but I hated how Christy's cat would be ...
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Happy World Vegetarian Day!
Today is a very important, although lesser-known, holiday in celebration of our vegetarian friends world-wide. Sorry vegans, your day doesn't come until November 1st. For those of you that don't know,...
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Less of the Same for All?
The last couple of months have been very trying months for many of you. Among close friends I have heard of some three long-term relationships ending. I've heard another three that have fallen on seri...
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Hospital Billing
How the heck does the billing for hospital services work? I swear, I can never figure it out. A couple years ago when I busted up my foot, I was billed some hundreds of dollars. I didn't pay. For ...
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Day at the SMOCA
For the last few weeks, I've been looking forward to seeing the Drawing Outside the Lines show at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. I had expected to see some new takes in line drawing. I had...
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Yuck Pizza
I had some Pizza Hut pizza this morning. It tasted like pills. I still have pill taste in my mouth, and it won’t come out. I have to admit, the Pizza Hut dynasty is officially dead. When I was a ki...
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Havasu Falls Hiking Trip
Last weekend I hit up a little known edge of the Grand Canyon, known as the Havasupai Indian Reservation. They have a small town 8 miles from any roads and still receive mail via a pony express. Anoth...
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Review: Death Bed: The Bed that Eats
Directed by George Barry USA / 1977 / 80 minutes I like bad movies. To me, they're like a bad joke. I always laugh at a bad joke not because it's funny, but because of the context. In short, I laugh ...
Read MoreAugust Goals: Success
I did it. I was able to get through the month with absolutely no crack cocaine. As some of you may have known, my anti-crack month was really just a cover for my real anti-alcohol month. I was planning on waiting until Sam left town. We drank brass monkey, polished off a case of Schlitz, and that was it for the rest of the month.
My motivations for this were for a couple reasons:
I had just gotten stupid-drunk in Colorado and ended up in the hospital not knowing how I wrecked a bicycle.
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Your Matt's Guide to Theft Prevention
Over the years I have lost a lot of my own personal property to outright theft. Most recently was just last week when I noticed a missing lighter from my front porch. Further investigation told of a m...
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I Missed My Tens of Thousands
You've had ideas for inventions that you never acted upon and later found on store shelves. It's a sad, disappointing moment when you realize that you could have been the one to make tens of thousands...
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Review: New and Improved Recycling Magnet
As you walk through the grocery store, you sometimes see "New and Improved" across such packaging as laundry detergent or breakfast cereal. Is it really necessary to improve on these already tried and...
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Web Spotlight: Craig's List Forums
I've found where the bottom thralls of society congregate on the web. Everyone is stooping below the level of the next. It's a 50-man bar fight where anything goes. There's a guy in the background doi...
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Review: Brass Monkey
Very few mixed drinks involve beer. There's the Hooter Shooter with beer, Tabasco and an oyster. There's the aptly named Red Beer involving a mix of V-8, and then there's the infamous Brass Monkey. Th...
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August Goals
It’s a new month, and rather than continuing with my same day-in day-out routine, I figured I’d mix it up with a new goal to adhere to for the next 30 days. I vow on this 1st day of August until ...
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My Summer Vacation to Colorado
I bought that plane ticket to Colorado for the wrong day, and dangit, that wasn’t going to stop me from using it. I flew in last Thursday, and then got back some four days later. It was largely an u...
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Pikes Peak Hill Climb.. Hell Yeah!
Last weekend was the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. This is the second-oldest auto sports race, where the drivers embark on a 12.4 mile trek from 9,400 feet to 14,110 feet above sea level. Much of the track i...
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Your Matt's Guide to Cats
Cats don't come with owners manuals, so your Matt is here to give you all the info you need to know if you are thinking about getting a cat or need help with an existing cat. I have much experience w...
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Happy Canada Day!
Canada Day marks the establishment of Canada as a self-governing dominion on July 1st, 1867. Although yesterday was the official Canadian birthday, the citizens of this fine country observe it on days...
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Review: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
The Sierra Nevadas are best known for the mountains, lakes and giganto-effing trees. Now all of this can be found in alcoholic beverage form. I have been evaluating this beer since I found the first g...
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