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A Forgotten Evening
As he sank back into the seat behind his desk, he glanced around the office. The glossy cherry cabinets and prim blond-wood straight-backed chairs seemed to reprimand him, chastely peering down over...
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High Hopes for Jake Arrieta
Since the Orioles selected him in the fifth round of the 2007 MLB Rule 4 amateur player draft, Jake Arrieta has alternately frustrated and tantalized fans. After striking out more than a batter an...
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Writer’s Block
White is a bully. Its bloodlessness is meant to mock me, I know. I sit in front of it, studying its hateful blank stare. I am taunted by its cold silence. All of the little demons of my thoughts are...
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T&P Goes to China: Beijing
Image Credit: User Jakubhal, Wikimedia This is the second in a seven part series about my travels in China. The seven parts, which follow the chronological order of my trip, are as follows: Departure,...
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Brief Opening Day Thoughts
Good players play well. With very few exceptions, we don’t learn a whole lot about players on Opening Day. Justin Verlander is really good. So is Clayton Kershaw. So are Chris Sale, James Shields,...
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Urban Camouflage
Graffiti Art, Taylor Dunbar Cape Town, South Africa boasts ownership of some of the most renowned attractions and remarkable natural wonders. Tourists from around the world flock to its shores to...
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Dangerously Rational
Image Credit: Yahoo! America is generally split into two distinct groups when it comes North Korea: the terrified and the nonchalant. Both are extreme, with the former group prognosticating a nuclear...
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On the Rutgers fiasco
Yesterday, video surfaced showing Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice screaming homophobic slurs at his players, putting his hands on them as he got into their faces, and hurling basketballs at...
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Aside
Pausebreatheinthenjump. And I find myself floating; for a moment, or more (the mind is tricked so easily by the game). It is accompanied by silence, overwhelming. Dead space. Unseen hands reach out,...
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Europe teeters on the edge
Lisbon, Portugal. Photo Credit: cntraveller.com Few people haven’t heard about Greece or Cyprus. Greece for its continual descent into chaos and dysfunction and Cyprus for the utterly shocking decision...
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Mello Yello
Tommy rounded the corner and plunked the bottle of Hiram Walker Northern Light Canadian Whisky on the counter. “We’ve got this,” he gestured at the two-liter bottle of Canada Dry on the table, “but I’m...
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Fun with on-pace stats
We’re a week into the MLB season and crazy things are happening. Dexter Fowler has hit four home runs! Cole Hamels has a 10.97 ERA! The Rockies are 5-1! The Astros and Marlins are 1-5! Wait, that last...
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T&P Goes to China: Xi’an
Image Source: CityHDWallpapers.com This is the third in a seven part series about my travels in China. The seven parts, which follow the chronological order of my trip, are as follows: Departure,...
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Perfection in black and white
FlickFlickFlick. FlickFlick. Fliiiiick. FlickFlickFlickFlick. A-T-O-M, those flicks spell, in the language of the precise strokes and sharp angles of a black pen on a glossy white canvas. The smooth...
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America shouldn’t be discouraged by China’s rise
Image Credit: abcnewsradioonline.com In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, a French publicist and historian, Benjamin Franklin penned the now famous “death and taxes” phrase as a way to offer cautious...
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Carlos Quentin should be punished
In last night’s Dodgers-Padres game, Carlos Quentin led off the bottom of the sixth inning against Zack Greinke with the Padres trailing 2-1. With the count full, Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis set up on...
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Winter
The roads were dark with curves to kill. A pale moon hung low in the sky and cursed at the trees, making their shadows fierce and angry. Without the overwhelming silence dominating your ears’ sensory...
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Grove City
“Are you happy?” Helen asks, glancing up from her work. She is sprawled on a brown leather sofa belonging to a café called Beans on Broadway. Outside sits Broadway, and I know there are boarded up...
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Sunday Night Zombie Poem
I-THOU i’ll never forget her, that pathetic army-crawling half-corpse. bicycle girl, they called her, with more than a hint of irony. trailing entrails, she was all spine. her chattering slackjaw,...
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All Grown Up
Eliza is a girl who knows what she wants. When she grows up, she wants a shower with two shower heads and river rock walls with a ceiling that makes it rain. Outside she wants a bathtub with candles...
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