To start, a weird confessional moment. Several years ago, Julie and I were at Target in Okemos, MI. I always make her duck into the toy department when we’re out shopping because I collect (and[…]
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Day 65: Wrestlemania Week III: Chris Jericho
Y2J is one of the first figures on this list that I watched from the virtual beginning of his career as a “smart” wrestling fan. I never even remotely thought any of Jericho’s career was[…]
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Day 64: Wrestlemania Week II: Hulk/Hollywood Hogan
My mom took me to see the match above. We also went to Hara Arena to see the Closed Circuit of WM III, where Hogan first body slammed Andre the Giant. I didn’t exactly know[…]
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Day 63: Wrestlemania Week I, my 8 Favorite Wrestlers: Stone Cold Steve Austin
It’s time to lighten up the ol’ daily grind here on the blog, so in honor of Wrestlemania coming in just seven more days (yay! Super Bowl of wrestling!), I’m going to do an 8[…]
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Day 62: The Hill to Die On
And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. -That Shakespeare guy, from Henry[…]
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Day 61: A Survivance Manifesto (for all)
“Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry.” – Gerald Vizenor, from Manifest[…]
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Day 60: Walkabout
That’s not my house, btw. It’s a stock photo of a sidewalk from ye old Google images. I felt like a random house image was fitting for what I’m writing about today. Generally speaking, it’s[…]
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Day 59: The Old Stuff vs. The New School
I worked a little disgruntled line into one of my posts this past week, and today I wanted to tug a little bit on that thread. It has everything to do with the revisions I[…]
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Day 58: So Simulacra
I don’t know if you’ve seen Logan. I you haven’t, minor spoiler coming. *don’t read* Okay, so in Logan, there are these X-Men comics. But they aren’t real X-Men comics, because that’d be[…]
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Day 57: the power of RNG
Today I was reading over this piece about Hearthstone. The concept of four types of randomness in a game is interesting, but what struck me about the piece in particular is the concept of acceptable[…]
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