Just Another Soldier

Jason Christopher Hartley goes to Iraq Around a year ago, Time magazine did a profile on influential bloggers, and named a few websites that were up and coming. One of the pick stood out not so much for its topic (Iraq) or its angle (soldier’s viewpoint) but for the cheeky…

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Wanna Live With Me?

I’m a clean guy whose fought grime single-handedly for the last year as my housemate watched TV. While I don’t care what you watch, you do need to share, both in cleaning and remote control mastery. And the Daily Show is preferred over Fox News, but if you don’t care to watch either, even better. I’m usually geeking out on my computers anyway. That or out socializing. Right, which means you need to help keep the beer fridge stocked too. Beer, wine, booze, this ain’t a dry apartment.

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Hockey Goals Matter

I gotta say, I like hockey. Yeah, me the guy who doesn’t know if its time for the World Series or the Superbowl, I enjoy watching hockey. You could blame it on all those drink-a-thons in Moscow that led to nights cheering Spartak, but I would disagree.

I like hockey because its one of the few sports where every goal matters.

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A Too Perfect Beach Town

Avalon. Doesn’t that sound nice. Avalon. Like a place you’d want to be for a while. Well I am here, in Avalon, NJ for a long weekend and it is a nice place to be. While not the Isle of Avalon of the Arthurian tales, it is somewhat mystical in its perfection. Wait, make that eerie in its perfection.

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A New Orleans Friend in Need

What can you do? What help can you give? How can you do your part to alleviate the tradegy that is the banished residents of New Orleans? Everyone says donate to the Red Cross, send them your money and they’ll make it happen. They sure are doing there part, but I am a more active guy than that. I say help the friends I made in NOLA directly, with gift cards and cash sent to them in Houston.

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