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Daily Archives: March 18, 2011

Zombies Ahead

Ahhh, the prank.  In advance of April Fool’s Day, it would appear some determined hoax-sters have thrown down the gauntlet with a harmless practical joke of the roadside variety.  The mock warning was displayed along the road leading from Boulder down to Denver.  Predictably, nobody bought it (at least I hope so).  But the guffaws were many.  In total, zero actual zombies were reported though I am quite certain that I spotted a few doing the painfully slow, zero gravity of the moon, ten minute teen-strut through a ten foot crosswalk over by CU.  I had to read lips but I am pretty sure they were muttering, “Brains,” over and over again as they slow-walked themselves backwards in time. Read more of this post

Guys Hugging Guys: Technique

I discovered this while perusing AdWeek the other morning.  A.K.A., the bro hug, the man hug is incontrovertible proof of the inherent ridiculousness of the male gender.  Either go in for the attaboy grapple like there isn’t an invisible crotch-height table between the two of you or don’t hug it out at all.  Of course, in true hypocritical form I have been guilty of the man hug from time to time as well as the sidewinder variation where you slide your lower body to one side or the other while engaging in torso embrace.  Kind of like the hug limbo – your lower body goes one way while the upper goes another.  Often leads to a need for chiropractics.