Ventriloquist Dummy

“You’re watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego, sitting atop his lap, is a brash stick of kindling with

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Dick Pole

I don’t really collect baseball cards, but have all of Dick Pole’s. I also have some from Johnny Dickshot, Chicken Wolf, Cannonball Titcomb, Shooty Babitt,

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Surf Life

As teenage surfers, I recall that it seemed important to us, in our philosophical moments, to compare surfing and sex, wondering which is better, as

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Calendar Girl

Remember when everyone from parts houses to machine shops gave away calendars? They were always unique to the company handing them out, but had one

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Frenemies

Tom and Jerry is a series that features comic fights between an iconic pair of frenemies, a house cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry). The

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Middle Of Nowhere

When you think of Nebraska, you probably think of cornfields, farms, small-town USA, and a seemingly never-ending stretch of I-80 (and you’d be mostly right).

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Bobs Got Balls

It’s often very funny, which is something I never expected to say about a Conjuring film (the difference between this and something like La Llorona

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Yeehaw!

Back in the day, you didn’t buy a pro-made brand-name fly ramp from a big box store – you dragged whatever scrap material you could

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