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Die Another Day DVD
Sitting down to watch Die Another Day on special edition DVD, even though it doesn’t officially come out here in the US until tomorrow. Thank you again, half.com.
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The Teammates
Historian David Halberstam was on The Daily Show Thursday talking about his new book, The Teammates. The book is about Red Sox legends Dom Dimaggio (yes he is) and Johnnie Pesky driving from Boston down to Florida for one last visit with Ted Williams, who has since passed. Williams was the greatest hitter that ever…
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OOB bound
From Friday until Sunday afternoon, we’ll be gone to Old Orchard Beach with Heidi’s family for a little mini-break.
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The new Bond makes up for the breaking desk…
On this desk that I’m sitting at, the left side of the slideout keyboard tray has been steadily detaching from the side of the desk for the past few days…every time I hear an ominous crack, the left side of the keyboard tilts down slighty to the left, leaving us typing on an ever-growing tilt.…
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Mike Tyson in the fight of his life
Greta Van Susteren’s Mike Tyson piece just aired on the Fox network’s horrible newsmagazine, The Pulse. Besides her fake, stupid “I’m trying to be serious” look, the piece was not a total trash job like I expected it to be. Tyson was convicted of raping Desree Washington in 1992, and the piece spent much time…
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the series premier
Hello! Today is the first day of jasonclarke.org. After two years of owning the domain name and doing nothing with it, I’ve finally got something here. Mostly, I think we’ll be using this site to publish photos we’ve taken (or that have been taken of us), so hit up the photos section, and be sure…