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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - July 11, 2023July 11, 2023

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It's the MLB All-Star Game! Huzzah, hurray, etc. I discussed my view of the ASG at length last year, and I find my opinions have only hardened. Last night's Home Run Derby was great (WOOO VLADITO!). Tonight is going to suck. At the very least they could try and jazz it

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - June 27, 2023June 27, 2023

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Summer colds: what if you were sweating your tits off AND couldn't breathe? As you might imagine, coherent thought is even more elusive than normal right now, so I'm going pseudo-Larry King Dead stream of consciousness here. Buckle the fuck up: ISSUE THE FIRST: Underappreciated stuff. 1. Ginger beer. It's the most underrated

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

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I love A Knight's Tale. It is a near-perfect Flick. Funny. Great soundtrack. All-Star cast (Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, and the criminally-underappreciated Shannyn Sossamon). But the whole thing is stolen by Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, starting here: For there is something inherently noble about trudging! Like the

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - June 6, 2023June 6, 2023

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So here we are. 8 years and 199 blog posts older. Two kids, four jobs and two houses ago. First, So I Married an Axe Murderer is an underrated film. Second, it has been a very, very long road. Some of you were there. I believe most of you had been born.

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

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I killed a man today. I didn't mean to. Well, that's not quite accurate. I meant to do him grievous bodily harm; to paraphrase blues legend R.L. Burnside, him dying was between him and the Lord.* But I sure wasn't too broken up about his mortal coil choosing to shuffle off a bit