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Walter Duran
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I used to do this in the old place. I see it falls upon me to do this here as well:

Turkey is delicious. You’re doing turkey wrong. Make Salvadoran friends
Pavo estilo Salvadoreño, slow roasted in a spiced tomato marinade Pan con pavo, a wet turkey sandwich that is a staple of Salvadoran holiday meals
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I love the business in Albuquerque with Breaking Bad pun names
The storefront sign for Barking Bad Dog Grooming, complete with cartoon dog logo wearing a Heisenberg hat and dark glasses A sign posted on a streetlamp for Better Call Haul Junk Removal
July 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Like??? All this PLUS Casino Royale, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook, Clue, The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Labrynth??? They deserved an Oscar four times over, at least!
Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson of The Casting Company have cast over 100 feature films, including Transformers, The Da Vinci Code, Poseidon, Something's Gotta Give, Iron Jawed Angels, A Beautiful Mind, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Air Force One, Jurassic Park 1&2, The American President, Apollo 13, A Few Good Men, Backdraft, Misery, Ghost, When Harry Met Sally, Mystic Pizza, Beetlejuice, Stand by Me, Home Alone, The Outsiders, NC-17 and Angels & Demons.
April 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Great book! It has one of my favorite forewords in all of fiction
FOREWORD In the early twentieth century, the Congress of our great nation debated a glorious plan to resolve a meat shortage in America. The idea was this: import hippos and raise them in Louisianas barous. The hippos would eat the ruinously invasive water hva-cinth; the American people would eat the hippos; everyone would go home happy. Well, except the hippos. They'd go home eaten. Much to everyone's disappointment, Congress didn't follow through on the plan, and today America lives a cursed life—a beef life, with nary a free-range hippo within the borders of our country. Reader, this is an actual, literal thing that almost happened. The hippos are not a metaphor. You should investigate hippo ranching for yourself; as much as I'd like to call this novella the definitive text on the matter, it is most assuredly fiction. With that in mind, I caved in to my desire to make this a hippo-cowboy romp and fiddled with some dates. I shifted everything back byabout fifty years, and took some liberties with what technology existed at the time in order to fit the story to the time period. I regret nothing: it was worth it for the hats alone. For actual facts about hippo ranching, check out Jon Mooal-lem's fabulous piece in the Atavist Magazine ("American Hippo-potamus"). Yours in dreams of the America that Might Have Been, Sarah Gailey
March 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A two panel comic with the title “Purchasing new games” Panel 1 titled “As a Kid” shows a child smiling holding a game saying, “I have a new game. I must play it NOW! Panel 2 titled “As an Adult” shows an adult with his back to the camera, looking at a shelf crowded with video game cases and saying, “This new game will look very nice on my shelf. Heck, I might even glance at it occasionally.”
December 3, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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Honestly made me a bit sad.
November 15, 2024 at 1:53 AM