3:30am boredom fixers: Nestlé Crunch Hotline
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Calling all Tellers of Tall Tales!
I’m putting together a video that will be played at our wedding (May 24, 2009), and one of the things I want to have is a bunch of people telling stories of how they “allegedly” heard we met. We want these to be as wacky as possible, and I know that my friends are a creative bunch. The format would be along the lines of these:
“I heard Dan and Katherine met…”
“Oh, Dan and Katherine?...
Chicago Tribue article mentions opalcat.com on Feb. 5 2009!
…sometimes someone hits on something in there that even I’ve forgotten that I wrote. This was the case this week when I was contacted by Chicago Tribune writer Charles Leroux about an obscure article on my site…
Fuzzball kitten savages a 130lb golden retriever
Exceedingly cute video of my 10 week old kitten beating up on my 10 year old, 130lb golden retriever. Smackdown ’08.
Juggling
I learned to juggle when I was 11 from a book called Juggling for the Complete Klutz. I have seen other books that teach juggling, such as The Complete Juggler and Carlos on Juggling, but in my opinion, Klutz is the best. The most important thing they emphasize (which most others fail to do) is the scoop motion in the toss, which allows the ball...
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