Jeremy Bent

Author: Jeremy

  • Pure Celloing Satisfaction

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    Yo-Yo Ma had the look on his face that represented the feeling deep in everyone’s hearts: joy.

  • My Great-Grandfather Is Smiling In Heaven

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    I come from a family of notorious tinkerers. My great-grandfather, Mort Mason, was a lover of all things mechanical; my dad spent part of his inheritance in 1983 on a computer that’s outstripped by most modern calculators; and my brother has probably broken more computers than many people will ever own. Messing with things is…

  • Help me, intarwebz

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    So I’ve got a bunch of rewards points stockpiled on my credit card. Here is my dilemma. Should I: (a) be responsible and replace my pillows and duvet, which are old and definitely need replacing, and are possibly full of anti-sex mojo, which would explain a lot? or: (b) be irresponsible and buy a Muppet?…

  • BMI: Addendum

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    Over the Christmas holiday, I was rankled yet again by the inappropriate use of BMI (body mass index). As I mentioned in my previous discourse on the subject, BMI is a guideline for entire populations, not individuals. So imagine my surprise when Wii Fit told me I was significantly overweight due to my high BMI,…

  • Resolutions: Resolution

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    I took a look at my New Year’s Resolutions from January of this year, and decided to weigh in on my achievements relative to my stated intentions. I normally don’t make resolutions, but something spurred me this year to do it, so I thought I might as well comment on how they turned out. -Get…

  • A Better HSM

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    High School Musical, like it or not, represents an enormously powerful and lucrative brand for Disney. I’ve tried to find numbers on how much cash that the behemoth (set to pop with its third incarnation coming to theaters today) has brought in, but no dice. I did see that the combined budgets of all three…

  • Dirty Cheater

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    I’ve got a pretty long-standing love affair with video games. Although I liked playing them as much as most kids of the 80s, I think I can trace the obsession back to the fall of 1993. I was in sixth grade, and my friend Cliff bought Final Fantasy (the orig) for the NES at a…

  • Moratorium: Invoking Reagan

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    Easily one of my least favorite subplot of the upcoming election is how frequently the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin especially, are referencing Reagan, as if he were some sort of political savior. Palin seems to think that the American people believe that had we all put our trust in Reagan, the country would be soaring…

  • Definitive evidence of needing a haircut

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    Two people who had never seen me before separately came to the conclusion that I looked like David Hasselhoff. “But like a young David Hasselhoff!” they said, trying to soothe my horrified reaction. Damage done, ladies. Time to get this mop chopped.

  • More Quotations

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    I can’t stop quoting Joseph Campbell, but apparently he can’t stop being incredibly insightful. Mythology is defeated when the mind rests solemnly with its favorite or traditional images, defending them as though they themselves were the message that they communicate.