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[50/50] Video Game #9: Spy Hunter
Video Game #9: Spy Hunter (1983) What’s better than watching James Bond? Driving his gadget-filled sports car … or at least the arcade version of it. In the most obvious idea ever for a video game, Spy...
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[50/50] Song #39: “The Pink Panther Theme”
Song #39: “The Pink Panther Theme” — Henry Mancini (1963) Speaking of Henry Mancini, the next song in my countdown is easily his best known — certainly his most played — composition. Mancini’s jazzy...
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Art interlude — Help put my cover in the Top 5
So I just found out a couple of my designs are in the running for the cover of this year’s Society of News Design book. The SND has been throwing open the cover to newspaper designers around the world...
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[50/50] Album #40: “An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer”
Album #40: “An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer” — Tom Lehrer (1959) OK you kids, listen up — back in MY day if you wanted comedy you didn’t have YouTube or “Funny or Die” or Comedy Central. We didn’t...
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[50/50] Short Story #8: “A Sound of Thunder”
Short Story #8: “A Sound of Thunder” — Ray Bradbury (1952) I have two very clear memories of my father introducing me to science fiction. When I was 7 and my brother was 5, he took us to see “2001: A...
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Final week to vote in the finals!
Uno! Dos! Tres! Quatro! … only 4 days left to vote for my SND cover design in the final round. If you haven’t yet cast your vote for the cover, please click here and cast your ballot today. Thank you!...
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[50/50] Comedy #8: “Smokey & the Bandit”
Comedy #8: “Smokey & the Bandit” (1977) I guess you could say I have something for cars, or at least movies about cars. Certainly movies about road trips, and absolutely movies about cross country...
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[50/50] Video Game #8: Cyclone
Video Game #8: Cyclone (1988) “We have a winner!” Considering how many quarters I dropped in pinball machines over the decades, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention at least one. This is no token...
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[50/50] Song #38: “Save It For Later”
Song #38: “Save It for Later” — The English Beat (1982) It was during that first week in college — when you first move into the dorm and seemingly make a new friend every five minutes — that I met a...
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[50/50] Album #39: Led Zeppelin IV
Album #39: Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin IV (1971) In the only real music debate I ever had with Grayson Currin, our music editor at the Independent, he expressed disappointment when I said Led Zeppelin...
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