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7890s Indie Rock: The coolest band? Pavement.
This is the first installment in the '90s Indie Rock series. The point of these Hubs are to discuss several of the most meaningful, original, successful, and important bands of a scene that I loved dearly as...
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78Literary Evolution: William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and the Bible.
Given the status of the Bible in the western literary tradition as one of the most appropriated and alluded to of all ancient and religious texts, it is not unusual that William Blake writes so extensively...
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78Why I know Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven right now
Before anyone writes a nasty comment at the end of this Hub, I want to make sure I clarify that the subject line of this Hub is a joke. It is the same joke Vonnegut made about Isaac Asimov, another great...
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76Beer 101: The Four Ingredients
Welcome back to the continuing series on beer appreciation! The goal of this HUB is to break down beer into the four ingredients and examine them a little more closely. The four ingredients were...
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84Literary Origins: Virgil's Appropriation of the Homeric Epics
Given the place in western literature both Homer and Virgil occupy, that is the place of a forefather standing far before other great literary minds and achievements, the relationship between the two takes on...
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69Painful Advertising, or How Cable Broke My Eardrums
Since I have been unemployed this recession, I have found myself with a lot more time to watch television. I am sad to say, but I have noticed that some things have changed since I last spent time in front...
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75Snuggie Sightings
Ok so by now, we've all heard of snuggiepubcrawls.com, and we've all seen people all over town wearing Snuggies in public like its perfectly normal. Heck, even I posed once with a Snuggie on while I was...
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70How to win the Nobel Prize even if you can't sell a book, or the TRUE story of William Faulkner
When William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, his works in the United States had been out of print for almost a decade. While writers like Steinbeck and Hemingway dominated the...
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76Beer 101: Ninkasi Brewery, Eugene Or
Living for the past 10 years in Colorado and Oregon has afforded me a rare opportunity to experience quite alot of what the Western United States microbrew scene has to offer. For those who don't know, the...
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56Small Town Oklahoma (An Original Series of Fiction, Part 2): The Box From Sumatra
This story is rated PG-13 and has a few curse words and adult themes, though nothing graphic. If you are easily offended, please do not read this story. None of the views the characters express are shared...
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