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I grew up on the wrong side of town. Now, I realize that many of you sincerely doubt that there is such a thing as a "wrong side of town" on Cape Cod, but I can assure you that there is.

I've been watching quite a few more movies lately than is customary for me, which is to say, you know, any at all.

I made a little video for a colleague of mine who is getting married this weekend, and I'm not gonna lie. It makes me giggle. So much so that I figured, what the hell, I'll share it here, too.

I just watched The Last Station, a gorgeous movie about the last days of Tolstoy. Predictably, it has torn the heart right out of me.

The winds of Irene continue to blow hard this afternoon, and the forecast is for several more hours of tropical storm force winds to come. We've had remarkably little rain from this storm, since the track Irene followed brought the eye of the storm much further westward than had been originally expected. In fact, if you went by what the radar looked like, you'd think this storm was a non-event on Cape Cod.

When I was a kid, I loved exactly three TV shows. M*A*S*H, The Carol Burnett Show, and The Muppets.

Seriously, is everything that comes to my house with British postage on it awesome?

I do so wish it were fall.

Remember back in school, when they had those hilarious competitions to see who could read the most books during the summer break? Remember how you always crushed the competition by reading about eleventy skillion more books than they even put rows on the entry form?

You know what we should do? We should play a game. You like games, don't you?