Yesterday, I saw a bumper sticker that read “If you’re not hustling, you’re part of the problem.” As I sat at a traffic light and stared at that sticker, I began to examine my life. I wondered, what does this guy know that I don’t? Should I be hustling? How, exactly, does one hustle? Is […]
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As I write this, humanity is nearing the end of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, or so I’ve heard in hushed whispers here and there. Who am I kidding? The Rio Olympics is all I’ve been hearing about over the past few weeks, whether I was listening or not. Person A swam/ran/tumbled/threw something faster
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The summer of 1984 was a fun time to be alive. Sure, we all thought the USSR was going to bomb the bejeezus out of us—and they were thinking the same thing about us—but movies like The Day After notwithstanding, there was more to life that year than the looming specter of World War III.
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From 1989 to 1993, the NBC science fiction show Quantum Leap chronicled the adventures of good guy Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula), a physicist who created a time machine that allowed him to inhabit the bodies of others who lived within his lifetime. Each week, Sam would leap into a new character. Some of them were
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First of all, I’m a Bad Robot fan, and I’m proud of it. For those who don’t know, Bad Robot is a film and television production company owned by producer, writer, and director J.J. Abrams. It’s been responsible for shows such as Alias and Lost and films like Super 8, Cloverfield, and the new Star
A few days ago, I saw a New York Times article’s headline that read “Who Is to Blame When a Child Wanders at the Zoo?” The piece was written in response to a recent tragedy that occurred at the Cincinnati Zoo. After a young boy entered an enclosure with Harambe, an endangered silverback gorilla, a
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