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Do you guys remember mixtapes? Holding tape recorders up to the tv speakers while listening to MTV? Or the awkward high school years, punctuated with mixtapes containing Pulp, Belle & Sebastian, Bikini Kill and The Smiths? Recently, I became friends with someone who works near my office, and he made me a mixtape . . . → Read More: Friday Music – Little Eye – Cover of Britney Spears Hold It Against Me It’s easy forget how slang can date you in a way that no other aspect of the language can. For instance, the other day, I received an email in which someone was referred to as a “scrub.” Seeing the word in type was one thing, but to see it in an email (something that was borderline . . . → Read More: Before We Had Memes and Viral Videos, It was “Scrubs” vs. “Pigeons” Like most kids my age in the early 1990s, I grew up reading the Goosebumps series books, and moved on to The Fear Street books as I got older. R.L. Stine was one of my favorite authors, and I consumed every one of his books I could get my hands on, including his joke books written . . . → Read More: Giving Myself Goosebumps |
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