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On sale at Publix this week: Mardi Gras, Star Wars, and pumpkin spice leftovers

This week on the clearance shelf at my local Publix, you can get cut-rate Mardi Gras costumes... ...Star Wars magnets...…

10 years ago

Two years ago today…

Click the photo to see it at full size. Has it already been two years? Happy anniversary, sweetie! I’ll let…

10 years ago

Florida man pretends to be Nickelback’s drummer to scam $25,000 worth of drum equipment

Florida drummer Lee Koenig, who also goes by the stage name “MR. WOOKY”. Click the photo to see his Facebook…

10 years ago

When an alt-right troll unintentionally makes a case for a liberal future

This was tweeted yesterday by @polNewsNetwork1: The twitter account’s name is a reference to /pol/, the “politically incorrect” section of…

10 years ago

A “tourist hack” for people coming to Florida for spring break

It’s a trick the locals use, and it really works.

10 years ago

Book in a Box is looking for a Head of Author Marketing (and I’m looking for a job)

Here’s an interesting job that I can’t apply for (among other things, it requires relocating to Austin, Texas, which I…

10 years ago

On sale at Publix this week: Lantern batteries!

I’ve always had a fascination with the things that end up on the clearance shelf of stores. My neighborhood grocery…

10 years ago

Does anybody use this to remember the number of days in each month?

Until yesterday, I had no idea that the mnemonic device pictured above even existed.

10 years ago

The Narcissist’s Prayer: We’re going to be hearing a lot of this for the next little while

This poem about napologies or nonpologies — the not-really-an-apology apologies that narcissists give — comes from Reddit’s “Raised by Narcissists” subreddit (that’s Reddit-ese…

10 years ago