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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
updated
May 23, 2012 11:52 AM
The NBA Playoffs are still going, and I'm still thinking about
basketball. Did you know that there's only one state in the country
in which not a single NBA player, from any point in the league's
history, was born? Can you g ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
posted
May 9, 2012
Gore Vidal once said, "It is not enough to succeed. Others must
fail." He said it at the funeral of another writer; I can't find
the exact context of the quotation, but I can imagine.
What he said is true for everyone, in t ...
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> Generation Y By Brett Yates
posted
Apr 25, 2012
Back in 2002, there was a movie called "Orange County" that
seemed at the time to epitomize Hollywood nepotism: it was a
moderately amusing teen comedy about wannabe-writer, played by
Colin Hanks (son of Tom Hanks), and his ...
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> Generation Y By Brett Yates
posted
Apr 11, 2012
There are thirteen incomplete sentences on the first two pages
of "The Hunger Games," the young-adult novel that inspired the film
of the same name, which itself has inspired enough people to head
to their local movie theate ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Mar 28, 2012 02:52 PM
For some reason, I can always remember the year in which a movie
came out - I can do this even for classic movies, made eons before
my birth - but I can never remember in which year a particular song
appeared.
This is a li ...
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> Generation Y By Brett Yates
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Mar 14, 2012 11:21 AM
Spring is starting, the sun is shining, and the skiing is
top-notch. I'm too happy to complain at length about anything in
particular, so here are five random little thoughts I've recently
had:
1. Why are St. Patrick's Day ...
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> Generation Y By Brett Yates
updated
Feb 29, 2012 04:31 PM
"The Artist," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture on
Sunday night, has received extravagant praise since its debut in
Cannes last May, and it's easy to see why: it's as charming as any
romcom, yet its central idea a ...
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> Generation Yby Brett Yates
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Feb 15, 2012 01:38 PM
The Oscars are coming up, which means that it's time for us to
start thinking about how much better our taste in movies is than
the Academy's. Since 2009, the Academy has put forth nine or ten
Best Picture nominees instead o ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Feb 1, 2012 08:06 AM
This year's Super Bowl, which pairs the East Rutherford Giants
against the Foxborough Patriots, should be a pretty big deal in
Killington - Vermonters tend to cheer for the Pats, but there are
also a huge number of folks wit ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Jan 18, 2012 08:08 AM
About a month and a half ago, I bought an iPhone 4S. I upgraded
from a Samsung SCH-a870, which is one of those old clamshells
that's only half a step more advanced than the brick-phone that
Zack Morris used to carry around o ...
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> Generation Y By Brett Yates
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Jan 4, 2012 10:21 AM
A British American author and journalist died after a career
that spanned more than four decades
A couple of whiskey-soaked weeks have passed, and the clouds of
grief have cleared well enough to allow me, finally, to remini ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Dec 21, 2011 10:20 AM
Christmas is pretty popular, and not just among right-wing
evangelicals. It's celebrated around the world, on all seven
continents (especially Antarctica, which is where all the really
cool Christmas parties are happening th ...
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> Generation Yby Brett Yates
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Dec 19, 2011 07:59 AM
I've never eaten raw, unseasoned pumpkin - because that would be
disgusting - but at times, while carving jack-o'-lanterns, I've
been almost curious enough to try it. Without the cinnamon and
nutmeg, would pumpkin really be ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Dec 13, 2011 04:20 PM
The day after Thanksgiving, I visited Zuccotti Park for the
first time. I did so as a tourist, not as a real protester - I was
in New York City with my girlfriend, celebrating my birthday,
cornily enough. Although I wondered ...
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> Generation YBy Brett Yates
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Nov 23, 2011 10:18 AM
I've just passed the one-year mark in my Facebook membership,
and still I have only 136 friends. This is a pitiful sum - really,
a source of ceaseless embarrassment - so if any of you readers out
there want to 'friend' me an ...
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> Generation Yby Brett Yates
updated
Oct 12, 2011 01:37 PM
I don't know if you watched the legendary Andy Rooney's farewell
segment on the October 2 edition of "60 Minutes," but in case you
missed the 92-year-old essayist's touching retirement speech, I've
taken the time to transcri ...
