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The top 5 TV shows on DVD that you should buy as gifts

If you’re still looking for gifts to give to friends, family, or me, here’s my list of the top 5 TV shows available on DVD or Blu Ray at this time. 5. 30 Rock. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin have … Continue reading

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The 2010 Avitable Holiday Gift Guide

It may seem weird for me to post a gift guide after writing a post last week about feeling very Grinchy, but I don’t want everyone to have a bad holiday season.  I just don’t feel like celebrating it myself! … Continue reading

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About pedophilia and censorship

Pedophilia to us humans is a bit like Kryptonite is to Superman. Have you ever seen any incarnation of Superman where someone approaches him with Kryptonite? He stumbles, usually closes his eyes, sticks his hand out and just flails wildly, … Continue reading

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What should you do this summer?

With season finales happening left and right and very few worthwhile television series starting this summer, you have three choices when it comes to entertaining yourself until the fall. Choice #1: Turn off TV. This is a bad idea. You … Continue reading

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My conversation with Stephen Hawking

As I write this post tonight, Stephen Hawking has been rushed to the hospital and is gravely ill. And unlike last time, when I waited until after death to have a(n imagined) conversation with Caylee Anthony, I thought I should … Continue reading

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Avitable’s Top 10 Movies of the Aughts

I saw this post over at a blog I read, SwanShadow Thinks Out Loud. After reading the lists that two film critics for the San Francisco Chronicle compiled of the best films of this decade so far, he decided to … Continue reading

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Fun and prizes! Well, prizes at least.

Today is the birthday of my good friend and proud fellow geek, Heather. She’s 37, which means that she will soon be a decrepit gimpy old lady on her deathbed. In her honor, I have written her a special message: … Continue reading

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Miss Elaine Eous

Bunch of random shit today: 1. The contest I asked you to guess which ads were real and which were fake. The correct answer is that all of them are, in fact, real. Even the Pakistan Airline one, the spanking … Continue reading

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Contest

Watch for the contest. Here is the direct link. Update: If you want to try to come up with a good song, here’s the vlog intro all by itself, in WMV format: Vlog Intro

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