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Tag: Mandela Effect

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A Mandela Moment

Today is my coworker Lance’s birthday. Had I known, I’d have picked him up a cake on my way into the office. Though we don’t have a “birthday club” in Marketing, no one would say no to a birthday cake. And when I told Lance that he should have told me that today was his … Continue reading A Mandela Moment

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  • 2018: The Things You Find in Your Photo Collection — As some people know, I like to visit cemeteries. And when I visit cemeteries, I tend to take pictures [...]
  • 2016: Downton Abbey: The Shallowness of Robert Crawley — I have been stymied in my efforts to write any sort of interesting piece on Sunday’s episode of Downton Abbey, [...]
  • 2011: Atonement — Be warned. This post contains spoilers for a three year-old film based on a decade-old book. Tuesday night, I finally [...]
  • 2010: On Maryland Transit Suckitude — The four feet of snow that fell during Blizzardammerung and its kissing cousin Blizzardammerung II linger on the Maryland landscape [...]
  • 2009: On the Things People Look For — I love the Internet. I love how it can resurrect old things I’ve written, like a reanimated corpse. There’s seven [...]

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