It’s not too late for a review of 2008

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I was asked recently if I had any suggestions of good new music or albums that I’ve come across. I was a little stunned by the question at first, but I put some time into it and wrote an e-mail back that I’ve included in case anyone else wanted to know what’s crossed my ears

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70 Years of Marvel (and Timely and Atlas)

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This week Marvel delivers something I find even more exciting than the prospect of Spider-Man vs. Rutherford B. Hayes. 2009 is being hailed as Marvel’s “70th Anniversary” and with that comes a series of commemorative variant covers beginning with January 28th’s Captain America #46. One of these will ship each month on a series of

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Pocky Men’s

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I had no idea that they made men’s candy. My entire adult life I’ve been settling for immature confections, so from now on it’s something more sophisticated. To the Chinese Grocery! (At least until they start carrying Just for Men SweetTarts at WaWa).

Under the influence of Angie

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Wednesday night I was reminded of the powerful effect Angie has had on my life. After arriving at the Comics and More, I discovered that there were no remaining copies of a book I was planning to purchase

It’s about time, Comcast.

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I was both surprised and delighted to see that Comcast added HD channels for both USA and SciFi to our cable line up this week. Of course, the areas surrounding Philadelphia had these channels nearly a year ago, but Philadelphia got a new building instead. When I called to ask about this last February I

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