Yearly Archives: 2014

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] “You kind of set off an eternal winter… everywhere.”

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] -10° on the outdoor thermometer at @StapletonDenver’s Swigert McAuliffe school. #cowx #brrrr

Last Man 2014

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Here is my annual live-tweeting window for #LastMan. (I’m not playing, but others are.) What the heck is #LastMan, you ask? Read on, underneath the live-tweeting window, to find out. WARNING: This post contains #TheKnowledge.   // Last Man, a.k.a. #lastman, is a game of deliberate media / knowledge avoidance,… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] For complete live coverage of Last Man 2014 (and an explanation of what it is), click here. This post is solely for the purpose of giving active Knowledge Runners a redacted, #TheKnowledge-free version of Alyssa Newcomb’s ABC News blog post about #lastman. The original article is here, but it contains… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] #UnitedInOrange

An unexpected “odyssey”

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I’m a member of the Young Professionals Board at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which runs the Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Fourth Wall” program for young-adult theatergoers. In that capacity, I’m “co-hosting” an event this Saturday*, in preparation for which, I went last Saturday to see Marcus Gardley’s… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Loyabelle, 2 ½, likes to read her Daddy a book each night. Video of her teaching me some letters:

Loyette, 6, wins Pick ’em by record margin as her sisters, 4 and 2, finish 4th and 7th

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] And a little child shall lead them. Three little children, actually. All three of Becky’s and my daughters – ages 6, 4 and 2 – finished in the Top 7 of the ninth annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ‘em Contest. The 6-year-old, known on the Internet as “Loyette,” not… Read more »

ETERNAL GLORY: 6-year-old Loyette wins 9th annual LRT Bowl Pick ’em

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Surging to victory with a 4-game winning streak that included correctly picking consecutive 17-point underdog BCS winners – Central Florida and Oklahoma – Becky’s and my 6-year-old daughter, known on the Internet as “Loyette,” clinched the 9th annual Bowl Pick ‘em Contest championship Friday night, beating out 56 adults and… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Over on Twitter, I’ve posted a couple of lengthy tweet-bursts today which, taken together, constitute a sort of mini-review of “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” Actually, that’s not quite right. Taken together, they constitute a mini-review of the things I didn’t like about “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” I very,… Read more »