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Canada is like a popular American movie remade by amateurs with French subtitles.
You recognize certain scenes, and the plot feels familiar, but somehow the whole thing is off.
Not that this is bad thing.
Indeed, I rather like it.
Valentine’s Day Trip
A recent jaunt up to Montreal for a weekend both confirmed everything I had ever remembered liking [...]

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while i wasn’t paying attention, my comrades at students for free culture decided to announce the location of this year’s free culture national convention. it turns out it’ll be in berekely, california, in just under one month.
it looks like i’ve got some work to do.
last time free culture had decided to have a conference, it [...]

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following up on my post quantifying the rough costs of world cup 2010, i thought i would offer a brief assessment of the costs of seeing club soccer in various places around the world.
we start with the home team, the new england revolution, who can be seen at home about every 10 days for $19 [...]

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ah the north end. what is about its thin, cloistered streets that makes me so romanticize the place?
perhaps its something to do with the area’s rich feast tradition. as a bastion of roman catholic italians for over 100 years, the north end has long inculcated southern european culture in the very heart of old boston [...]

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