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Madden ’09 a Starter, Maybe not HOF
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August 26, 2008
If it’s August, it must be “Madden.” As perennial as tugging out your Terrible Towel from the back of the closet, the classic franchise has returned with this year’s heavily hyped “Madden ‘09.” With new features and graphical improvements, Electronic Arts obviously has a blockbuster on its hands. But is this game, as the cynics claim, just the same old thing warmed over again? “The grass looks better this year,” after all, is hardly reason to shell out $60. So is “Madden ‘09” a worthwhile recruit or shoul
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Starting Low — The Art of Painting Shoes
August 26, 2008
Benjamin Smith, a 24-year-old studio art graduate of Marietta College, who recently relocated to the most un-Ben Smith state there is: Wisconsin, (self-described as “one sexy, mother-&*$%#@! badass”) is a man of many (art
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I Like You Bob, Even if You Don’t Want Me To
August 26, 2008
Standing in the second row from the stage on Aug. 9, at the first New American Music Union Festival, I’m racked by the anticipation of seeing Bob Dylan, possibly the greatest American poet and songwriter of all time, live on stage.
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This is an Interesting Arrested Development
August 26, 2008
Arrested Development has been charting new waters in hip-hop for nearly 20 years. Not only is their music a backlash against gangsta-dominated music, but their philanthropy sets them apart, too. They were the first African-American artis
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My first Harry Potter experience: An open letter to Mr. Potter
Fri, August 8, 2008 @ 10:43AM
Dear Harry Potter, I finally started reading your dastardly wizard tales. Well, I wasn't really reading them. More like listening. But anyway, don't take it personally. I still haven't read "The Da Vinci Code" either. I have a hard time buying into huge cultural trends when I'm not on the ground floor of them. It's a personal fault, don't hold it against me. But my girlfriend more than makes up for my lack of interest. She spent the days leading up to the trip organizing a way to ship a Gryffindor blazer from a southern Illinois Hot Topic to one in Chicago, because it was on sale from $50 to $11.95. And she was the one who finally talked me into doing what no one before her had successfully done: Give you a chance. I'm some ways into the first book, but I have a confession to make. I think you're kind of boring. Your friends, Ron and Hermione, are much more interesting, as is Dumbledore, Haggard and even Malfoy. He
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Book Wishlist for October
Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 9:58AM
I know, it's not even September yet! But looking ahead to the new releases of late September/October, here's the ones that caught my eye. Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, a lot of the Christmas books make their debut in October. So I'll have plenty of time to read and recommend the good ones before Dec. 24! 1. Sunshine by Robin McKinley - this is apparently a reprint, but suddenly I'm hearing a lot of good things about this book - a kind of survivalist against the vampires book. 2. The Christmas Cookie Killer: A Fresh-Baked Mystery by Livia J. Washburn - Someone's knocking off old ladies at a cookie exchange. I'm going to up the irony by reading this while eating Christmas cookies. (; 3. Blood Lite edited by Kevin J. Anderson - Whimsical horror tales compiled by the Horror Writers' Association and containing such authors as Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kelley Armstrong and Sharyn McCrumb. I like whimsical horror! 4. Found You by Ma
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Into The End...
Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 10:23AM
Into The End: I was born in Oxford but grew up in Marietta, Why Douglas Adams will always speak for me (even in death), or Why I haven't slept since January 2005 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams I was born in Wheeling, West Virginia at four o’clock in the morning on September 10th, 1984. I moved to Cincinnati when I was two and then moved to Martins Ferry, Ohio at 5. At 18, I went away to college for my first year, came back home over the summer, and then moved my family to Parkersburg, West Virginia. In the fall I returned to Oxford to finish college, lived a summer in London, England, and then spent a y
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Video game football
Tue, August 19, 2008 @ 11:09AM
Sometimes i wish there was a version on madden where you didn't have to be the quarterback. I'd like to be a diva wide receiver. You know, so i wouldn't have to play every down. I could take snaps off, blow my blocking assignments and have to go back and get lectured by the QB. You could have mini-games where you see how many bench presses you could do in your driveway for reporters. Or be an offensive lineman. I play as the New England Patriots and keep accidentally falling down so i could get a front seat view of some ugly sacks on Tom Brady. After the game have to face questions from one reporter who got there too late to talk to the running back. But, ideally I'd be a kicker. I could watch TV while playing and only have to pay attention enough to see if i need to trot out there for a quick boot. If you make it, all your virtual teammates slap your helmet. If you miss, you just have to stand out there a little extra time and hit the "Feign Disbelie
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