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...plethora of grilling gear is only partly a case of consumerism run rampant. Barbecuing is the classic multitasking cuisine. First, there's the sheer spectacle of it: it's cooking as showing off. Grillers with a flair for the dramatic can cook such eye-catching dishes as beer-can chicken (cooked standing upright on two legs with a half-drunk beer shoved into its cavity). Then there's the opportunity to network. Who can resist rallying around the chef while he slaves over the swordfish? As Raichlen says, "Nobody ever comes and gives me a beer and a kiss hello...
...that it wasn't so much a graduation as a baccalaureate, which is some sort of religious ceremony. This did not work with the remarks I had prepared. I also found out that I was sharing the stage with an ESPN News anchor. Not ESPN, ESPN2, or even ESPN Classic Sports, but ESPN News. I was feeling a little stupid for flying across the country for this...
...drinking on the weekends, my housemates and I frequently watch movies to pass the time. This past weekend, we saw Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) and Mike Judge’s cult classic about the American workplace, Office Space. I still can’t decide which one was more enjoyable...
...Wacky, perhaps. But is Falun Gong a cult? Not necessarily, if classic characteristics of cults are taken into account. A reckoning...
...that it wasn't so much a graduation as a baccalaureate, which is some sort of religious ceremony. This did not work with the remarks I had prepared. I also found out that I was sharing the stage with an ESPN News anchor. Not ESPN, ESPN2, or even ESPN Classic Sports, but ESPN News. I was feeling a little stupid for flying across the country for this...