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The Big Game Sunday football

The Big Game Sunday

Jaybird February 11, 2024
San Francisco vs. Kansas City. Are you ready for some football?
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A Winter of Fights and Politics 2024-02-11 SpoLand C1063 (01.10.12)

A Winter of Fights and Politics

Clare Briggs February 11, 2024
It's going to be a hard winter, spring, and summer.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Watching a Zoomer play Fallout New Vegas Fallout New Vegas

Saturday Morning Gaming: Watching a Zoomer play Fallout New Vegas

Jaybird February 10, 2024
I got a friend's kid a single-player game for his birthday. Watching a Zoomer play Fallout New...
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Danny Dreamer, Valentine 's Day

Danny Dreamer, Valentine

Clare Briggs February 10, 2024
Danny's dreams of romance are o'er!
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Throughput: Zoozve Edition Zoozve

Throughput: Zoozve Edition

Michael Siegel February 9, 2024
Pseudo-moons, or more accurately quasi-satellites, are fascinating objects and we now suspect that basically every planet in...
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Biden Special Counsel Report: Read It For Yourself Biden Special Counsel Report

Biden Special Counsel Report: Read It For Yourself

Andrew Donaldson February 9, 2024
Don’t take a talking head’s word for it, or mindlessly share that viral link about it, read...
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POETS Day! More Seamus Heaney and Thoughts on Touching Stuff Seamus Heaney

POETS Day! More Seamus Heaney and Thoughts on Touching Stuff

Ben Sears February 9, 2024
I suppose we have cells that touched cells that touched the Renaissance or got Irish petrichor on...
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Weekend Plans Post: The Big Game 16378357526_c03a7a65a9_concussion

Weekend Plans Post: The Big Game

Jaybird February 9, 2024
The answer is "thirty-one". (But one is, technically, cheating.)
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Making ‘Lectricity 2024-02-09 TDoRS C5034 (02.06.16)

Making ‘Lectricity

Clare Briggs February 9, 2024
Days of real sport
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The Suburbanite Stays in Town 2024-02-08 Kelly C0862 (02.08.16)xr

The Suburbanite Stays in Town

Clare Briggs February 8, 2024
Adventures of kelly pool.
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Don’t Whitewash Black History Black history

Don’t Whitewash Black History

David Thornton February 7, 2024
I can admit now that I was ignorant. The good news is that ignorance can be cured...
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The Great War 2024-02-07 Feller C6025 (01.29.17) WW1

The Great War

Clare Briggs February 7, 2024
When a feller needs a friend.
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Cashing a Check 2024-02-06 Movie C8205 (02.16.16)

Cashing a Check

Clare Briggs February 6, 2024
Movie of a man cashing a check
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Killjoys! Voices Carry 2024-02-05 Joy C8302 (01.13.16)

Killjoys! Voices Carry

Clare Briggs February 5, 2024
Somebody's always taking the joy out of life.
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Teaching Her To Bowl 2024-02-04 SpoLand C1062 (01.10.11)

Teaching Her To Bowl

Clare Briggs February 4, 2024
Winter sport!
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Taking Biogun-Clinical Trial for a spin biogunsplash

Saturday Morning Gaming: Taking Biogun-Clinical Trial for a spin

Jaybird February 3, 2024
It's like a video game version of Osmosis Jones for a dog, I guess.
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Danny Dreamer Goes Honest 2024-02-03 Dreamer C2112 (02.19.11)

Danny Dreamer Goes Honest

Clare Briggs February 3, 2024
"Mercy what a harsh tone"
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POETS Day! Listening to Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney

POETS Day! Listening to Seamus Heaney

Ben Sears February 2, 2024
There’s a lot to say about Seamus Heaney, but I’ll get to that some other time. I’m...
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The Old Cross-Patch 2024-02-02 TDoRS C5027 (01.30.16)

The Old Cross-Patch

Clare Briggs February 2, 2024
Days of real sport
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Weekend Plans Post: The Hospital hotel2

Weekend Plans Post: The Hospital

Jaybird February 1, 2024
Warranties run out sometimes. You've still gotta do maintenance, though.
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