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  • The Fearless Tooth Fairy Vampire Killer

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    I was at my mom's not too long ago listening to a debate between The Flower and her cousin, wherein The Flower vigorously defended the existence of such non-corporeal creatures as Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and so on.

    The Cousin, who is quite opinionated on, well, [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by blake

  • Uncredited Remakes

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    Icons Of Fright has a fun post up called "Ted's" top ten uncredited remakes. "Uncredited remake" is a bit of a canard, because it implies that the "remake" knows about the original. For about 30 years, I'd heard that Alien was an uncredited remake of It! The Terror From Beyond [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:31am EST
    by blake

  • The Financial Crisis Explained?

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    "In short, on April 2, 2009, the President signed a communiqué that essentially turns over financial control of the country, and the planet, to a handful of central bankers, who, besides dictating policy covering everything from your retirement income to shareholder rights, will additionally have access to your health and" [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:25am EST
    by blake

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox: The Movie

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    The Flower demanded to be taken to a movie, having decided last week that this week was going to be the very best of her life. (To date, people. Don't get morbid on me.) She wanted to see Planet 51, which her girlfriend had seen and liked, while I was' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:56am EST
    by blake

  • Thanksgiving

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    Lord, every year we gather here
    To eat around this table
    Give us the strength to stomach as much
    As fast as we are able

    Bless this food to our use though
    Communication's useless
    Don't let me drink too much wine
    Lord, you know how I get ruthless
    [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:40am EST
    by blake

  • Are The Chinese The New Japanese?

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    Actually, my first question is: Have I become ultraconservative or prude or something?

    Let me back up. If you haven't seen this ad for an inflatable bra from China, you should. I first thought it was Japanese because, hey, you know: Japan. Also, the women there seem to' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:56pm EST
    by blake

  • Inappropriate Advertising

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    Far from being intrusive, I've actually found that I enjoy Google Mail's targeted ads. (And yeah, I know they're evil. A company who's first motto is "don't be evil" virtually had to turn out that way, didn't it?)

    I've written about the spam, for example, and it's sort' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:55pm EST
    by blake

  • Happy Thanksgiving From The 'Strom

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    Another movie review shortly: Fantastic Mr. Fox! What if Wes Anderson made a kids movie?

    Also, some more home DVR stories.

    And I made the ultimate sacrifice* and bought the next three Friday The 13th movies off of Ebay so I can continue my series. (*Sacrifice totaling $8.)
    [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:37pm EST
    by blake

  • Ahoy, Mate! Pirate Radio!

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    I avoided the '60s love-fest Pirate Radio for its first few weeks because, well, it's a '60s love-fest. It's not that love-notes to bygone eras are bad. Hollywood's love affair with the Gilded Age lasted into the '60s and produced some of my favorite movies. (That's 30 years of' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:42pm EST
    by blake

  • Saw VI: This Time It's Political

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    At this point, we must concede that the Jigsaw Killer, Jonathan Kramer, must certainly have spent more of his life setting up his murderous little games than any other activity. And that the amounts of money involved to play them are staggering.

    Which makes one wonder if he might [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:31am EST
    by blake

  • Real Or Fake Movies?

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    I got eight out of the ten movies in this cute quiz right.

    Tragically, I've only seen one of the movies.' [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:40am EST
    by blake

  • In the boardroom of human expression, several would-be clichés are tested out.

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    Winner: When you assume, you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me".

    Runner-up (socialists only): When you consume, you make "cons" out of "u" and "me".

    Winner: There is no "I" in "team".

    Runner-up: "Team" is made of "meat".

    Winner: Whether you think you can, [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:37am EST
    by blake

  • The Maid

    Number of comments: 5
    I never feel so quintessentially American as when the topic of "help" comes up. The whole concept of hired live-in help feels wrong to me, at least as a separate class. I'm not even all that comfortable with hiring someone to come in to clean the house.

    At least,' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:21am EST
    by blake

  • So Many Chemicals, So Little Time

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    One of my favorite quacks—and I use that term affectionately is a lady named Hulda Clark. She has a theory that all diseases are the result of chemicals and parasites (using the term "parasites" to mean any bacteria, virus, fungus or actual worm). More specifically, that what goes wrong [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:54am EST
    by blake

  • Geek Jobs

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    Back when Computer Gaming World magazine was still in print, you'd occasionally get stories about how some flack was talking about how their new graphics engine was enhanced to give Lara Croft an especially realistic butt jiggle.

    As a programmer, it always amazes me that some programmers get paid' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:26am EST
    by blake

  • Today Is Not That Day, Part 6: Bonus Deluxe Edition

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    For those of you who haven't followed this blog for a long time, this post may be your introduction to "Today Is Not That Day". T.I.N.T.D. is a theory I have that one day I will say to myself, "Gee, I wish I sent my kids to school."

    Maybe' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:58pm EST
    by blake

  • Conversations From Somone Else's Living Room: Part I

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    "Mom, we hate the Yankees."
    "..."
    "They buy their World Series wins."
    "But I don't hate this Yankees team."
    "We hate them all."

    (Reprinted with permission. You can guess which regular's living room this took place in.) [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:57am EST
    by blake

  • A Serious Man

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    I never miss a Coen brothers movie. Which isn't to say that my reaction to them all is the same. Besides not provoking the same reactions at the time, often the reactions change over time and repeated viewings.

    Befuddled bemusement, for example, followed The Big Lebowski. But over repeated' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:36am EDT
    by blake

  • Crash Blossom's Revenge

    Number of comments: 1
    "Oh, look, it's a kid's free day at the zoo!"
    "What a great idea! Now we can enjoy the zoo without all those little brats running around screaming!"
    "..."
    "..."
    "..."
    "Oh, it means kids get in free, doesn't it."
    "..."
    "That's good, too." [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:34am EDT
    by blake

  • Tickling Leo

    Number of comments: 3
    If there's one thing that movies have taught me, one secret mystery that has been revealed to me, over and over through celluloid magic, it's this:

    Genocide is bad.

    Time-and-again, Hollywood's superior moral compass steers away from life's most treacherous pitfalls. Just the other day, I was thinking [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 3:17am EDT
    by blake

  • Burn Dem Bunnies

    Number of comments: 4
    To show what a terrible person I am, I'm highlighting this story of burning bunnies: here. And confessing, it makes me giggle.

    To understand why I think it's funny, you'd have to be in my head. But if I can, I'll draw a picture.

    It's also the' [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 2:46am EDT
    by blake

  • Paranormal Activity: Return of the Old, Dark House

    Number of comments: 16
    The Boy and I snuck in a Saturday Matinee in the hopes of seeing Paranormal Activity while avoiding—well, let's be honest, the public, who can't really be trusted to shut up and actually watch a movie these days. Particularly, since one of our last horror outings (The Orphan) had taken [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 5:01am EDT
    by blake

  • Movie Review: Zombieland

    Number of comments: 2
    Using the template established by 28 Days Later, and bouncing off a little Shaun of the Dead, the new movie Zombieland gives us a fun-filled romp across a zombie-filled American West.

    What more do you need, really?

    Well, if you're The Boy, a lot more. I had a' [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 4:17am EDT
    by blake

  • The Race Against Time

    Number of comments: 2
    As the struggle to increase state control over health care continues, it occurs to me that this is a race against time.

    Sure, this is often been framed as a race against time, in the sense that Obama needs to spend his political capital as fast as he can [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:38am EDT
    by blake

  • Manic Monday Apocalypso: The Wages (and Prices) Of Sin

    Number of comments: 3
    The beauty of the Apocalypse is that it comes in so many flavors, to appeal to so many people. Ya gotcher Rapture, your Ragnarok, your Mayan 2012, and of course such modern classics as nuclear holocaust, zombie-or-zombie-like contagion, overpopulation or just good old famine. Something for everyone to enjoy.

    [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:02am EDT
    by blake

  • Introducing A New Series: Idiot with a Pencil

    Number of comments: 3
    Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, I have come into possession of a scanner and have dug up some of my general idiocy from the dusty confines of the Casa Maelstrom archives.
    I am not, by any definition an artist, but am an idiot, and I do love to draw. [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 1:37am EDT
    by blake

  • Review: The Invention Of Lying

    Number of comments: 2
    Imagine a world where no one lied. That there was no concept of lying, even. That all manners of fictions, deceits, imaginations and cons simply did not exist, and so neither did protections against them. Then imagine one man suddenly developed the ability to lie.

    Or, don't imagine it' [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:45am EDT
    by blake

  • Manic Monday Apocalypso: Miracle Mile

    Number of comments: 3
    Here's a kind of obscure movie that wasn't out long enough for me to see back in the '80s. It perfectly captures the Reagan-era atomic annihilation paranoia which, interestingly enough, seemed to peak at the end of the Cold War.

    The press reveled in presenting Reagan as an amiable' [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by blake

  • Movie Review: Pandorum

    Number of comments: 6
    We're coming out of lean times as far as moviegoing goes. As August winds down and well into September, typically the dregs of the season are released: Summer films that everyone thinks will flop, Award-season films that won't win any awards, horror movies that can't compete at Halloween, and so' [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 12:27am EDT
    by blake

  • Two Kinds of Government?

    Number of comments: 12
    This guy may be crazy—he's written extensively about the Federal Reserve system, vitamin B-17 as a cure for cancer, and Noah's Ark—but he's close to the mark about government.

    He argues that systems are either favoring individual freedom or favoring collectivism. He also argues that collectivism is a' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 2:46am EDT
    by blake

  • The Bitter Homeschooler

    Number of comments: 13
    This came to me in an e-mail. I think it's kind of funny, and while there's a lot of truth, I've never felt bitter about the questions. Intriguingly, most normal folk are mildly interested by the concept. Teachers on the other hand split between very supportive and rather indignant. (Without' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
    by blake

  • Update To Haunt Post

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    If you happened to read the 2009 Halloween Haunt post this morning, I've updated it with the rest of our adventures.' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
    by blake

  • Knott's Halloween Haunt 2009: All You Fear Is Here

    Number of comments: 2
    Thursday marked our annual return to Knott's Halloween Haunt, our way of kicking the season off with a bang. I gave a pretty detailed review of last year's shenanigans here, and quite a bit of it still applies.

    We always go on the first day, which is [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 2:31am EDT
    by blake

  • Conversations From The Living Room, Part 24: 2nd Grade Poli Sci

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    The Boy: "You're a racist!"
    The Flower: "I am not! My best friend is black!"
    The Boy: "Yes, but you oppose a black President."
    The Flower: "I oppose the black President."
    The Boy: "That makes you racist!"
    [The Flower rolls her eyes.]

    The Boy was teasing The Flower, as' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 2:08am EDT
    by blake

  • Make That Dream Supreme

    Number of comments: 8
    The incomparable Steven Den Beste has a Hot Air post up about how he would change the Constitution, given the chance. It's not really radical, for the most part. I mean, it is, in the sense that the statists we've cultivated and let take over everything would find it [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:10am EDT
    by blake

  • Gadget Lust

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    I'm not a gadget guy. People are often surprised by that because I have something like ten computers. But, see, I'm a computer guy. Didn't get a cell phone till my latest job required one (and gave one to me). Don't have GPS. Don't listen to satellite radio. Didn't have [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by blake

  • Insomnia's Invisible Casualties

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    I find things on the 'net. I mean, sure, we all do. But I find stuff that makes people go "How the hell did you find that?" Weird combinations of words, mostly, or very specific combinations of words. But most people who I have any call to share my surfing' [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:28am EDT
    by blake

  • Movie Review: Extract

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    Mike Judge is someone whose work I always enjoy, even though (or maybe especially because) it's usually low key and driven by average guys. But it can sneak up on you with its addictiveness.

    Office Space, for example, went from a limited release, low-key, low-budget film to a cult [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:04am EDT
    by blake

  • Wherein I Compare AI Development To Global Warming

    Number of comments: 8
    Instapundit highlights this little article on Artificial Intelligence where J. Storrs Hall writes the following:

    If you’re OK with calling a robot human equivalent if it can, say, do everything a janitor is supposed to, it’s likely by 2025; if it has to be able to create art [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 2:08am EDT
    by blake

  • Wherein I Throw Down With XWL

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    XWL over at Immodest Proposals commits the ultimate crime here.

    That's right, folks, he disses the placebo. Here at the 'strom, it's a toss up as to whether we prefer placebos or snake oil, but both have an exalted position in our world.

    I'll concede his basic [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 5:14am EDT
    by blake

  • All Weed Weed Up!

    Number of comments: 1
    Via Instapundit and Boing Boing, the L.A. Times posted an article showing all the quasi-legal marijuana joints in L.A. with a handy interactive map.

    I first noticed one of these a month or two ago. I was driving and talking on a cell phone (it's L.A., it's the [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:42am EDT
    by blake

  • Wherein The Boy And I Have "The Talk"

    Number of comments: 2
    No, not the Birds and the Bees talk. That's what the Internet is for.

    I've been musing about the difference between free markets and Capitalism. I'm very for free markets: People + stuff = trade. That's pretty much how things work, and the closer we keep to that, the [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:58am EDT
    by blake

  • Movie Review: Ponyo

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    Along with Pixar, Hayao Miyazaki is one of those filmmakers whose kid's films I look forward to (and have for 15 years). And with Pixar's John Lasseter running Disney's creative stuff, it'll be nice to see his films getting a bit of a wider release.

    But when Jason' [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
    by blake

  • Baader-Meinhof Komplications

    Number of comments: 1
    This movie—indeed, the entire premise of revolutionary totalitarian movements—is probably best summed up by The Boy, who about 45 minutes (or approximately 5% of the total length) into the movie leaned over and asked, "What is it they're fighting for?"

    In fact, this movie feels so accurate, that one' [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 6:46pm EDT
    by blake

  • Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part VI

    Number of comments: 2
    Dating the campus hunk (Fred Savage)...

    —No One Would Tell

    (He turns out to be abusive. Who woulda thunk?) [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
    by blake

  • Odds and Ends

    Number of comments: 3
    From around the Intarwebs:

    Ed Driscoll has dug up an old review of Michael Moore's movie Roger and Me. I found it interesting because she exactly describes what took me years to figure out. Blatant lies notwithstanding, the key quote is:

    It does something that is humanly [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:27am EDT
    by blake

  • Today Is Not That Day, Part 5

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    Well, actually, yesterday wasn't that day. Pardon my lag.

    The President gave a speech to all the little prisoners yesterday. You know the ones I'm talking about: The ones sentenced to 12 years of school?

    I don't care what he said. Well, I do care what he said,' [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
    by blake

  • Manic Monday Apocalypso: This Is Not How The World Ends

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, gosh, folks, despite all the dire predictions, it turns out that the world may actually be in for an extended cooling period before we go through the horrors of global warming. The above New Scientist article (hat tip Ace Of Spades HQ) is priceless on so many [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 5:53am EDT
    by blake

  • The Math Of Political Ideologies

    Number of comments: 1
    As a geek, I tend to get excited over the possibility of applying logic, math and science to the mooshy topics of politics. We've talked about "test-driven" government (borrowing from programming), where any change to policy would have to be run through a series of rigorous tests to determine effect' [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:52am EDT
    by blake

  • Conversations From The Living Room, Part 24: The Barbarienne Vs. Educational Television

    Number of comments: 3
    "Help us find the strawberries!"
    "No." [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 4:53pm EDT
    by blake
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