I appreciate you for appreciating me. This week’s blogs are all your suggestions for material. For more information, see this post. Reader78th suggested I post a list smattering of blogs and websites I visit on a regular basis. There are an awful lot that belong on this list. First — a few caveats: I have [...]

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Let the week begin! Your suggestions are my blog entries for the next seven days. See this post for more information… I’m an avid reader of Avitable‘s – a very clever and funny guy who always seems to make me laug with his blog entries and his comments on my blog. One of his weekly [...]

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          Hey! Next week is Blog Reader Appreciation Week! Click here to tell Shiny what you want him to blog about! “List on the 3s” needs little to no explanation. Hey, kids! It’s Friday the 13th! It’s that time again when people are superstitious, thinking of impending doom and going to [...]

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Thank you. I’m serious, guys. Thank you. For all that you’ve done here. For reading. For replying. For being supportive. For being critical. For agreeing with me. For disagreeing with me. For laughing. For groaning. For both getting it and not getting it. For discoverng my blog for the first time, and for returning additional [...]

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I missed Yizkor today. I linked to a more formal definition of Yizkor above, but I’ll also give you my own spin on it: four times a year (which coincide with the main pilgrimage holidays on the Jewish calendar) there is a special prayer service which is added into the regular liturgy for that day. [...]

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Call me unoriginal, call me a joiner… … and some of you are probably groaning. Shiny, I thought you were above such standardized memes! Haven’t you already done something like this anyway? Of course, you folks are probably referring to a similar meme in which questions are asked and the answers are queried through Google [...]

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I love telling jokes. And although I may be tooting my own horn here, I think I’m pretty good at telling them. (You know, I mean if they’re funny.) Yesterday I was telling a good friend a joke over the phone.  It’s a joke I’ve loved for a while. It’s one of those “story with [...]

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Here in “Shiny’s Political Corner” you’ll see a side of me that you don’t usually get to see on this blog. I prefer to think of myself as an entertainment and, perhaps, humor blogger. I don’t really think I have a specific theme to my blogs, but I’d like to feel that they delve on [...]

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“List on the 3s” is kind of difficult to explain — on any date which has a number 3 in it, such as June 3, I post a list. Which would mean I would not post a list on June 5. Come to think of it, it’s really not difficult to explain at all, is [...]

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I apologize for the lack of creativity to this post, but this specific image was too powerful not to post: This comes from the blog of an amazing, strong and noble woman (and friend) whose hometown was devastated by a tornado several days ago. The family jumped into the car and drove the 20-some hours [...]

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