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So, I'm going to share my thoughts with you on television. I like it. The new season started on September 21 (well, the 17th, really, if you watch NBC comedy on Thursdays), and I want to talk about it. I will do so in short little opinion pieces.Today, I feel compelled to talk about NCIS: Los Angeles.It's a spinoff of NCIS. Both shows deal with the Navy's Criminal Investigation branch. If a

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My good friend passed away ten years ago, today. I knew my friend for many years. We shared many good times together. We laughed together; we cried together. We battled side-by-side and celebrated arm-in-arm. My friend appealed to my interests and helped me look at them in a different way. My friend and I explored the cosmos together. On this very day, though, in 1999, my friend passed on.That

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Watch this space. Good things will happen.

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I owe you an apology. I left out a whole slew of photos from yesterday's article.This is looking east down Euclid Avenue: This is looking west: These are some of the decorations along the corridor: And, I left out another project:668 Euclid AvenueThis building has been in this state for quite some time. Developer Doug Price is going to re-habilitate it. It will become -- you guessed it -- retail

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Remember when I wrote about the Flats? Check out this little comparison:Before (taken Sunday): After (conceptual sketch): That's going to be pretty sweet.Progress is being made down in the Flats. Or, rather, demolition. I'll save that for a seperate article, though. Today, you get something new.The Euclid Corridor!The Euclid Corridor referrs to Euclid Avenue, stretching from Public Square in

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I was all set to go on another rant about politics (this time, about war powers), but a quick few minutes to brush up on the constitution took most of the wind out of my sails. Still, though, this seemed weird to me.Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher say the next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required to say whether it agrees.Isn't that already

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Click to appreciate it's full glory.

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I've watched a bit of TV in my day, and with that comes commercial watching. Most commercials make me want to claw my eyes out, or are just not noticeable. Sometimes, though, there are well-crafted, funny (because commercials have to be funny. It's a rule), commercials. Once commercials become serialized, it gets even better. This time, I'm specifically talking about the Alltel commercials. I

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Okay, kiddies, here we go.Read this and this.Done? Okay.Let's. Get. Political.(First to tell me what that sentence is a parody of gets a prize.)I used to like John McCain. I don't know if I would've ever voted for him for president, but I didn't have a problem with him. That all changed in May of 2005. He was the commencement speaker at the University of Oklahoma, that year, and I had the "

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I got a response back from Discernity. It's nice, and polite. If my service outtage, and all the problems that came with trying to get it fixed, had dragged on longer, it wouldn't be enough, but for now, I am appeased. Here's the response:Hello,My name is Karen Christenson. I apologizefor the lack of follow through that you received from us here at Discernity. You are absolutely correct in

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Howdy.It's been a while. I know I've neglected you, but I've been busy. Of course, you could always write to me in the comments... that would definitely ensure that I update regularly. You scratch my back, I'll bombard you with thoughts from my head. That's the deal. :)I'm kidding. I'll post more regularly; I promise. I'm cooking up two, shorter (I hope), stories, so look for those, soon.Today,

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It was a beautiful day, today, so I went up to the roof of my building to take these photos so I could share them. Click on them. They're big photos. This is where I live. Tell me this isn't worth trying to save. I love my city.

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Yesterday, in northeast Ohio, chaos struck. Streets were clogged with traffic. People waited in long lines for sustenance. Tempers flared. People were arrested. Kids ran out into traffic. Entire towns were brought to their knees.What, you ask, could manifest this terrorist's wet dream so easily and completely?Pizza.Papa John's Pizza, specifically.Yeah, you definitely need the back-story on this

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Here's Part II of the best story ever written about space since Sunday, April 20, 2008.Here's a first for Cleveland Rising: an update to a previous story! J.J. Abrams has said some things that leave me with mixed feelings about the new Star Trek movie. The one that makes me feel good is that ILM is doing the VFX. ILM and Star Trek go well together. So, at least it'll look good.Lastly, here are

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I have less about an hour before it's not the weekend any more, so to keep my promise to all four of you who read this, you're getting part one of my story, tonight.Normally, there won't be anything you have to read before reading something I've written, but, see, I wrote this whole page of exposition that didn't really fit in the story. So, rather than delete the whole thing, I wanted to post it

Ipsilonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315844830728929430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6661040510884029677.post-42707518996483571042008-04-18T13:16:00.011-04:002008-05-01T13:35:50.729-04:00

I haven't written in over a week.I'm not apologizing or anything. I'm just stating the obvious. I've been busy. I didn't have anything to say. My story wasn't done yet. It'll happen. :)On the story front, it's done. I'm going to have the first part posted soon. This weekend, if I have anything to say anything about it. So, that's that.Today, though, we're going to talk about Battlestar Galactica.

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I was going to wait to spring upon you that I like Star Trek, but I guess I kinda did, the other day. Anyway, this is something I have to get off my chest.Star Trek is not a comedy.Apparently, J.J. Abrams missed that memo. He must've missed it because he didn't pass it along to his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, either.You're probably not familiar with Orci and Kurtzman's work. I

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So, the story I keep threatening you with is becoming bigger and bigger. I think it's safely moved out of "short story" classification at this point. I'm going to finish it, go through it again and streamline it. I was planning on having all that done by Monday. We'll see. You'll have to forgive me if it's later than that. The weekend is coming up, and I'm sure some of you will probably go to a

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I hate internet shorthand. It drives me crazy. It has to stop.I got tricked by it when I was young. I discovered the internet back before many of you, I'll wager, even knew what a computer was, and before the rest of you knew how to use one. I got into this shit back when 1200 bits per second was fast (that's 1,200 bits, compared to something like 3 to 10 MILLION bits per second, that today's

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Stop Making Movies About My BooksOn the fourteenth of March, in towns nationwide, In every cinema, multiplex, on every barnside, Gleamed another adapting of....onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.

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All right, so, now that we've had our introductions, and I've told you what my favorite music is, let's get down to some business, hm? This site may not be all about Cleveland, but it will certainly be a frequent topic. There are quite a few projects going on, or that are about to get started, in Cleveland. The biggest, and most ambitious of which is The Flats.The Flats are basically the banks of

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While I'm gearing up to unleash the first story, of many, upon all of you (all of you potentially existing readers, anyway), I thought I'd let someone else entertain you first.If you like music you should make it a point to go here: http://www.butchwalker.com/Butch Walker is a great artist, who, simply put, will rock your face off. That's all the description you really need. Would you rather have

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It begins.I didn't think I should do this, at first. Most people I've encountered, who have a web_log, shouldn't have one. I thought I was one of those people. I don't have a band. I'm not an actor. I'm not running for office. Who the fuck cares what I have to say about stuff, and junk?Good question.This is an experiment. I'm going to talk about some things. I think Cleveland is in the beginning

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