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Category Archives: six of the best
SIX OF THE BEST… nerdy recipes
If you’d seen my work schedule this week, you’d know that I don’t even have time to post this on the site. But I’m taking a moment because my wife spent a lot of time working on a guest column … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, recipes
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SIX OF THE BEST… Brooklyn Nine-Nine cold opens
Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns this Sunday, and in celebration, here are six of the best of their cold opens. They all have something in common. Guess what.
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Tagged brooklyn 99, brooklyn nine-nine, cause and effect, full bullpen, house mouses, hulu, lockdown, marshmallows, moo moo, mr. santiago, my stinky butt, skyfire cycle, step aerobics, the apartment, the bank job, the good place
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SIX OF THE BEST… Tenth Doctor episodes
I was finally convinced to watch Doctor Who. It’s good. Not the best show ever, but good. Good enough for me to have a top-six list of David Tennant episodes.
SIX OF THE BEST… deep cuts I forgot I thumbs’d up
I haven’t written a column about music in about a year and a half. Time to change that. (There’s also a small rant about Girl Scout Cookies at the end.)
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Tagged ajr, because the night, blockhead, boys of summer, deep cuts, girl scout cookies, girl scouts, insomniac olympics, music, netflix trip, night riots, rush, the ataris, the legend of zelda (club mix), thumbs up, valentine's day, virtuality, zedd
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SIX OF THE BEST… ways you could make my stay more comfortable
I’ve stayed in 13 hotels in the past two years. That’s an average of one hotel every two months (not including the one I stayed in twice). That’s given me quite an insight into ways hotels could improve things… or, … Continue reading
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Tagged bed bath and beyond, doorknob, doors, free water, free wi-fi, hotel, ice machine, junior suite, sheraton, streaming, suite, towel, water, wi-fi
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SIX OF THE BEST… annoying conspiracies no one is talking about
It’s a conspiracy. You may not think it is, but it is. Maybe. By the way, did you check out my new story, “Thoughts and Prayers”, over at The Arcanist? You should. It’s only 1000 words; shouldn’t take you long to … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-vaxer, brand engineering, conspiracy, dishwasher, facebook, facebook videos, flu shot, garden hose, healthy food, jet-dry, lab tests, nametests, oil change, quest diagnostics, rinse-aid, spare tire, subdomain, top level domain, water
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SIX OF THE BEST… expensive things I refuse to spend money on
I don’t buy expensive stuff as often as I would like, because… well… it’s expensive.
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Tagged alternative fuel, apple fanboys, apple watch, cars, chaps, clothes, david robinson, dream car, expensive, food, gaming pc, generic, house brand, hybrid, jewelry, mac, mayo, mercedes, money, pc, portion size, sneakerheads, sneakers, wardrobe, watch, watches, yogurt
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SIX OF THE BEST… movie sequels in 2017, revisited
Last year about this time I wrote a column about what I thought the six best movie sequels coming out in 2017 would be. Now it’s time to see if I was right or not.
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Tagged ant-man and the wasp, Aquaman, atomic blonde, avengers, beauty and the beast, colossal, episode ix, get out, guardians of the galaxy, infinity war, ingrid goes west, justice league, Kingsman, Logan, on this day, ragnarok, revisited, sequel, solo, split, star wars, the golden circle, the last jedi, the lego batman movie, thor, three billboards in ebbing missouri, volume 2, wonder woman
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SIX OF THE BEST… types of columns I wrote in 2017
Instead of doing a boring “six of the best columns I wrote in 2017”, I decided to present my yearly best-of in a slightly different fashion.
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Tagged best of, books, chuck tingle, column, coping mechanism, fidget spinner, film, gadgets, games, handwriting, mental health, movies, norman spinrad, practice, reading, save the cat, signs, stakes, the defenders, the void captain’s tale, tv, unhappiness, writing
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SIX OF THE BEST… episodes of The Orville
When you write a weekly column that is a list of six things, a TV show with only 12 episodes fits neatly into the format… which is why I’m ending 2017 with a look at The Orville. I’m also starting 2018 … Continue reading
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Tagged about a girl, christmas special, command performance, disaster, discovery, Doctor Who, dr who, encounter at farpoint, face of the enemy, for the world is hollow and I have touched the sky, homeward, if the stars should appear, krill, new dimensions, non-heteronormative relationships, old wounds, orville, seth macfarlane, star trek discovery, the loss, the orville, the outcast, who watches the watchers
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SIX OF THE BEST… ways to improve customer service in medicine
Medical customer service is often not great. I came up with six ways to improve it.
SIX OF THE BEST… streaming originals I watched this year
I watched a lot of streaming TV this year, including many original shows. Here are six of the best of them, in no particular order.
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Tagged abortion, admiral nogura, amazon, bojack horseman, carmilla, enrico colantoni, fullscreen, futureman, glow, gorgeous ladies of wrestling, hulu, lesbian vampire, netflix, peeta, peter serafinowicz, phase ii, ryan hansen, ryan hansen solves crimes on television, sheila, star trek continues, stranger things, streaming, The Tick, thoughts and prayers, vampire, video on demand, vimeo, vlog, vod, YouTube, youtube red
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SIX OF THE BEST… changes my wife thinks the NFL should make to their rules
I got my wife into football by way of fantasy, and now that she’s spent a couple of years watching games with me, she has a few NFL rule changes in mind.
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Tagged catch rule, celestia football league, cfl, defensive pass interference, dpi, extra point, fair catch, football, football move, intentional grounding, kick return, magical end zone, nfl, offensive pass interference, overtime, penguin, rules, spot foul, stadium, tax, tax policy, throwback, throwback thursday, wife
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SIX OF THE BEST… ways to support your writer friends when they publish a new book
Your writer friends (like me) need support and help when they publish a new book. Especially when there’s no big-name publisher around to help with the marketing. And even when there is a publisher, word-of-mouth is still the best way … Continue reading
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Tagged after the apocalypse, algorithm, amazon, criticism, emoji, facebook, faded glory, honesty, influencers, libraries, pre-order, preorder, publishing, review, sales numbers, self-publishing, social media, word of mouth
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SIX OF THE BEST… times the hero and the villain teamed up
I’m kind of surprised that it took me this long to write a hero/villain team-up column.
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Tagged brooklyn nine-nine, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, cordelia, data, doug judy, dr. pulaski, Hero, jake peralta, Magneto, neelix, NWO, Professor X, rogue, Sarah Connor, Spike, stone cold steve austin, t-800, team-up, Terminator 2, terry jeffords, the borg, the rock, tuvok, villain, voyager, WCW, wolverine, WWE, WWF, x-2, x-men united, Xander
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SIX OF THE BEST… rules for naming your characters
With NaNoWriMo coming up, I wanted to do a column about character naming. Because nobody needs to read a book with someone named Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way.
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Tagged Captain America, civl war, crossbones, Dostoyevsky, ebony dark'ness dementia raven way, my immortal, nano, nanowrimo, punctuation shaker, rogue one, sean mcmullen, souls in the great machine, spelling, star trek, star wars, the brothers karamazov, twee, twilight, writing
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SIX OF THE BEST… things about Planet Builders
This week’s column is about my favorite sci-fi book series growing up. It still (mostly) holds up today. There’s no movie or TV series of Planet Builders. But there should be.
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Tagged bruce coville, bruce talkington, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, jymn magon, mageworlds, mary frances zambreno, MG, middle grade, mountain of stolen dreams, night of ghosts and lightning, planet builders, Sherwood Smith, ya, young adult
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SIX OF THE BEST… things The Orville did better than Star Trek: Discovery
I really wanted to like Star Trek: Discovery, but CBS and Paramount are making it really hard. Meanwhile, The Orville is fun, funny, and hopeful. It’s much better than Discovery. Here’s why.
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Tagged abramsverse, all access, bryan fuller, canon, cbs, dick jokes, discovery, executive producer, fox, greek chorus, humor, jason isaacs, klingons, prime universe, seth macfarlane, sonequa martin-green, star trek, star trek discovery, super serious, the orville
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