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    Get your peanuts and Cracker Jack ready

    Posted on July 22, 2020 by moc
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    It’s almost here. Our foot is an inch from the ball and Lucy is still holding it. One… more… day.

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    Hulu brings it with Palm Springs

    Posted on July 20, 2020 by moc
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    Gotta hand it to the folks at Hulu. The world gives their business a gift (let’s face it–Covid basically required everyone to order some kind of streaming service), and rather than rest on that fact have absolutely brought it  while we’re … Continue reading →

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    They got our hopes up again…

    Posted on July 17, 2020 by moc
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    From the I’ll-take-anything-but-a-Covid-story series, there is this… If you live ’round these parts (that would be the Washington, D.C., metro area) you have no doubt felt a crush of very hot weather recently, and someone telling you we were closing … Continue reading →

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    Washington something-or-others

    Posted on July 15, 2020 by moc
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    If you live ’round these parts (that would be the Washington, D.C., metro area) you know one thing for certain: we talk about football regardless of season, regardless of pandemics, and regardless of whether or not anyone will ever actually … Continue reading →

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    World, Interrupted

    Posted on July 13, 2020 by moc
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    Oh, no, nothing actually. I just wanted to post that title somewhere with a time stamp. That’s how we’ll refer to this era some day. Totally thought of it first. … Continue reading →

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    Can we just go back on this?

    Posted on July 10, 2020 by moc
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    It was 35 years ago this week (July 11, 1985 to be exact) a great national nightmare ended. The Coca-Cola company ended the brutal “New Coke” era with a return of the newly-branded Coca-Cola Classic. Can someone now please bring back … Continue reading →

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    The new schedules are here!

    Posted on July 8, 2020 by moc
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    Remember that scene in The Jerk, with Steve Martin running through the street proclaiming “the new phonebooks are here!”? Yeah, that was me over the weekend. Sports are getting real again. … Continue reading →

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    Hamilton!

    Posted on July 6, 2020 by moc
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    I know I’m five years late on this, but I get it now. Hamilton. Is. Great. Can we make all other hit Broadway musicals available at home basically for free? … Continue reading →

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    Today is a holiday

    Posted on July 3, 2020 by moc
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    Love how folks are so upset that July Fourth is on a weekend (and hence getting no extra day off) that they’ve taken it upon themselves to take today off instead. Like we need to get a jump on getting … Continue reading →

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    Say it ain’t so

    Posted on July 1, 2020 by moc
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    Baseball trivia question… What do the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Fredericksburg Nationals, Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, and Loudoun County Boys League E Team 6 have in common? Unfortunately they are going undefeated this year. … Continue reading →

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