Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #371: The Grouchy Ladybug
You can see all the brown bears and hear all the polar bears you want. You can feed that hungry caterpillar and stay busy with that...
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Joe Pace
Jun 29, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #370: Dr. Abigail Bartlet
Part of what made The West Wing such great storytelling was the great characters that populated television's best show. And it wasn't...
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Joe Pace
Jun 27, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #101: Savage Inequalities
I first came across Kozol's writing in college. It was 1995 and I was dating an education major. This book was in her dorm room, and I...
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Joe Pace
Jun 25, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #369: Thanos
For several years, the sole argument of any merit leveled by DC partisans against the juggernaut artistic and financial success of the...
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Joe Pace
Jun 24, 2019
Granite State of Mind, #149: Nike Employee Store, Greenland
A brief homage today to another New Hampshire place that no longer exists. For many years, my brother worked for Cole-Haan and then Bauer...
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Joe Pace
Jun 22, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #368: Nick Miller
Like everyone else, we watched The New Girl because Zooey Deschanel is quirky and funny and cute, the most improbably, awkwardly sexy...
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Joe Pace
Jun 21, 2019
Favorite Fictional Characters, #367: Eleven
I've been hearing for months and years that I need to watch Stranger Things. One of my (many) flaws is that the more I'm told to do...
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Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #100: A Shopkeeper's Millennium
For the hundredth entry in this series, I'm sharing one of the most important books I've ever read. Johnson's volume is brief - under 150...
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Joe Pace
Jun 16, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #99: Star Trek Memories
I can't speak rationally about my love for William Shatner. More specifically, Shatner's depiction of the swaggering, libidinous,...
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Joe Pace
Jun 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #98: Exeter High School Yearbook, 1993
The deeper the well of memory, the trickier it becomes to separate history from myth. As the years pass by, favorite stories become...
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Joe Pace
Jun 9, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #97: Plagues and Peoples
Disease has been with humanity for as long as we have roamed the Earth, and McNeill skillfully retells our collective narrative through...
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Joe Pace
Jun 2, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #96: The Big Scrum, How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
I love history, and sports, and Teddy Roosevelt, so there's no universe in which I'd pass by a book covering all three, even one penned...
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