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Best Halloween Costumes Ever

The five best Halloween costumes of all-time:Bed sheet ghost: Made popular in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!, this is perhaps the most classic Halloween costume. This kid is usually a short, 4-year-old uncreative…
Shalloween Time

One of my worst qualities is that I’m not a very confident guy, and this is reflected in how I dress myself. I don’t know anything about what is good or bad in clothing or fashion, which is probably the direct result of…
The Understanding of White People

There is a scene in Spider-Man 3 that pisses me off every time I see it. The scene shows Mary Jane (played by Kirsten Dunst) and Harry (played by that one dude in Pineapple Express) on a date, except they’re not really…
The Atheists' Cafe: Patriotism and Attraction

Here's an interesting question posed by Chuck Klosterman in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: Knowing only the following information about each person, who would you rather go on a blind date with and why? Someone who is att…
Rage Road

Yesterday on my way to work I experienced an incident involving a phenomenon known as “road rage.” In a nutshell, I changed lanes, another driver felt that I cut him off, he honked at me, I raised my hand up apologetica…
Xanga SoCal Meet-Up Friday #1

Right now Major League Baseball is in the middle of its two League Championship Series. Because the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels are both this deep in the playoffs, there exists a very real possibility…
A Liberal Look at Fox News

In this age of free wi-fi, Twitter, and 3G telecommunications, we live in an era where communication is easy and information is abundant and accessible. Consequently, we live in a time where people are more apt to have…
The Xanga Featured Blog

Nine years ago I was at a club in West Hollywood and bumped into a kid on my way to the bar. The fact that there was a teenager at a 21 and older club prompted me to say, “What in the name of Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs is going…
The Atheists' Cafe: Xanga, Plagiarism, and Christianity

There is a post by Simbathe2nd that is currently featured on the front page regarding Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. When I read this post a few days ago it struck me as something very familiar. After much tho…
Solstice Reintroduction

I work in an industry that allows me to have a relatively easy lifestyle. Unfortunately, my job is over fifty miles away from my home, which means that every morning I’m faced with a lonely, hour-long, and congested com…

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