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    by Gary M. Almeter
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    Excerpts from the Show Bible for The Fribbles, a 1980s Children’s Cartoon
    by Dan McCoy
  • January 31, 2024
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    What to Do When You Encounter Your Time-Traveling Future Self
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    The Family Shasta
    by Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
  • June 9, 2021
    A 1985 Action Movie Hero Brings Way Too Much Heat and Weird Slang to His Scenes
    by Dan Kennedy
  • May 19, 2021
    35 Things You Never Knew About Peter Gabriel’s So Album
    by Gary M. Almeter
  • April 5, 2021
    Every HOA Ordinance Violated in the Song “Our House” by Madness
    by Alice Lahoda
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