May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
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An alphabetical list of television shows I have...
Please put in order from “completely unacceptable” to “completely understandable.”
I know the golden age of the “oh, I don’t even own a television” snob is over, since everyone with an Internet connection basically co-owns the television inside of the Internet, so I don’t mean to sound like I’m bragging. I’m simply stating the facts.
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February 2013
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Presidents Day reading.
My favorite sentence on Wikipedia, as noted last week, is this one about Voyager 1: “The spacecraft’s mission now is its eternal mission, to study and wander the interstellar medium.” My second favorite sentence on Wikipedia, however, is in reference to John Tyler, a president so bad he remains the only one to not receive a state funeral, on account of the fact that he defected...
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"Andy, why are you crying?"
“[Voyager 1]’s mission now is its eternal mission, to study and wander the interstellar medium.”
The convoy scene in Smokey and the Bandit
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
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January 2013
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Do you remember...
…when I was writing those fake “Glee” recaps two years ago that were so dumb I had to stop writing them? If you don’t remember, they’re all here. There are only two.
In light of recent events, is it prophetic that I described a subplot about a character named “Colten” caught up in a plagiarism scandal??????????
Described here in this recap from Episode 15,...
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"Huh? Who is this?"
I got a new phone number a few months ago, and it must have really made the rounds before it came to me. Based on the wrong calls I’ve received since then, it seems as if it has, at various times, belonged to:
A St. Paul-based sex worker. I was able to verify her identity by matching my current phone number with a number listed on a profile on an escort service directory. She must have been...
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2012
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York City
St. Cloud, Minnesota
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Joseph, Minnesota
Jonathan, Minnesota
Greensboro, North Carolina
Louisville, Kentucky
Lake Maria, Minnesota
Louisville, Kentucky (twice)
Keene, New Hampshire
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Mary Rothlisberger's "God Bless the USPS." →
I called Mary the night before this column ran to double-check a few facts. Her answering machine picked up and I began to leave a message (“Hi Mary, it’s Andy Sturdevant, wondering if I could…”).
Twenty seconds in, I hear the words, “Andy, is that you? I just got in the door.”
To which I reply, very loudly: “HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?”
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New Year's Eve, 2000-present.
2000. I don’t remember this one. Like in the “if you can remember it you weren’t really there” sort of way? No. No, no, no. In the exact opposite way.
2001. I don’t remember this one, either.
2002. Same. I have some vague recollection of a pile of R&B records and some dancing and mulled wine, but that might actually have been the night of that huge December...
December 2012
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November 2012
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"No money, an unstoppable metabolism, and a...
Mr. Gatti’s: A regional pizza buffet restaurant with the touchy motto “The best pizza in town! Honest!”. Often, there was some kind of party room for kids with miniature golf or a ballpit or animatronic animals or video games. But mostly, it is (was?) an all-you-can-eat buffet of six or seven types of pizza, a salad bar (with bleu cheese and cheddar cheese, both which you could...
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Fifty favorite books, roughly in the order I read...
This list is prompted by this book, written by bookseller Hans Weyandt over at Micawber’s in St. Paul and published by Coffee House Press earlier this year.
More than half of the books on my list I read in the past five years, probably because I’ve read more books in the past five years than most previous years (being an 80-minute round trip a day bus commuter opens up some exciting...
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October 2012
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