Category: Off the Top of My Hat
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Professional Sports Continue to Grow and Grow, While We Just Stay the Same
The only “little guy” left is us, the fans. Baseball players and athletes are making more and more money, and it’s because sports teams are making more and more money. But is the average fan making more and more money at that rate? No, we’ve just stayed the same. But we’re giving more and more…
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Birding – The Addictive Hobby of Stalking, but with Birds, and Oh Don’t Worry, it’s Non-Violent.
Back in 1985, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird came out. It was a big deal. It was Sesame Street’s first movie, it had marketing tie-ins with Wendy’s, and getting a 1980’s kid to prioritize Wendy’s over McDonald’s or Burger King was no small feat. You can argue that was technically birding. You were watching…
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I Just Want a Cup of Coffee
One month ago, A Dutch Bros. Coffee opened up in my neighborhood. It replaced a Salad and Go, which was of no use to my wife and me. We like salads, but prepackaged salads just aren’t appetizing as one you can customize, like at a Salata. As a coffee drinker, I had mixed feelings. On…
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Wicked: For Good – I Can Say It Hasn’t Changed for the Better
“I liked it, but the first was one was better. I liked the songs more,” my daughter said. That’s a succinct, accurate 15-word review of Wicked: For Good, that doesn’t really need anything added to it. But I’m going to, because I have this blog and decades worth of Wicked opinions piled up.
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Being a Boy in Ballet
“Mom, why did he say that boys who do ballet are weird?” There is a stigma to being a boy who does ballet, and my six year old son got his first taste of it. His ballet school helped him respond.
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A Fresh Pad of Paper
I’m happy to announce the return of Are You Insane, a blog that admittedly exists not because you need to read it, but because I need to write it.