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Charlie Sheen: Winning?

I was sitting at my desk yesterday, reading about the Orioles’ recent troubles, when I saw a friend had called me and left a voicemail. She said one of her coworkers had two $70 tickets to the Charlie Sheen show that he was selling for $20 each and asked if I’d like to buy them. [...]

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A Baltimore Bro opines on Jim Halpert

A few nights ago I found myself bored, drinking a glass of Scotch, aimlessly flipping through the channels.  I was hoping for something great (an Archer, Arrested Development, or Seinfeld re-run) but settled on something mediocre: a re-run of NBC’s “The Office”.  That’s when, after years of casually watching The Office, I suddenly realized something: [...]

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Why Everyone Hates Duke

It has nothing to do with them being successful.  Kentucky, UNC, and Kansas all have more victories and NCAA championships and they don’t inspire anywhere near that level of hate.  Everyone hates Duke because everyone has played sports with one of those types of players.  Duke is comprised entirely of that one kid on everyone’s [...]

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Great Baltimoreans – David Byrne

“And you may ask yourself – how did I get here?” Born in Scotland in 1952, artist, writer, and cofounder of Talking Heads David Byrne moved to Baltimore at age 8 and considers himself a Baltimorean through and through.  He grew up in the suburb of Arbutus, Maryland (possibly down the street from our friend [...]

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The End of an Excuse

A warning to us all (mostly the guys): the era of blaming the cell phone is quickly coming to a close.  Like with many new technologies, as cell phones gained widespread popularity during the late 1990’s, a ‘culture’ of sorts developed around them.  People learned about them – not only what they were technically capable [...]

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