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My friend Nick, who grew up in northwest Iowa, had an uncle who won two demolition derbies using the same car, and Nick would always say, “Not ‘entered’ two demolition derbies, WON two demolition derbies.”

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I just remembered this Taylor Mali video from 14 years ago when I was reading a poetry book and he was thanked in the acknowledgements.

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I try to ignore clickbait titles as much as possible, but I somehow had a hunch this one was going to be good even though its title was “We Built a Wall. 3 Months Later, This Happened.”

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If I had to guess by the southern Utah scenery, I’d say this dreamy edit was shot when these folks were in the area just before or just after last year’s Red Bull Rampage?

A few nights ago, I had my bicycle up on the stand in our garage, pulling the old chain through the derailleur, thinking about how I used to do bike maintenance in the bathtub (not while bathing).

I spent probably way too long this past week animating my illustrations from my story about ChatGPT, and put it together in a short film: Why Don’t You Just Have ChatGPT Write It?

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NOTE: A couple months ago, we made refrigerator magnets of my “Did You Have A Good Adventure?”

I ran 300 laps on the indoor track at the gym in our neighborhood, each one one-tenth of a mile, clockwise.

Stan Lee tells the totally under-assuming/unlikely story of how he came up with the idea of Spider-Man, all the while coming off as the most humble, chill guy in the world (video) I thought this was going to be one of those “look how badly humans behave on

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