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  2. Brian Hansen

    Neal Stephenson: Keep Killing My Plants

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    December 22, 2015
    Neal Stephenson is great. His books are concrete block-dense worlds that are the physical embodiment of that snake that eats its own tail – they can swallow you whole even as you devour them. I’ve read the near-1,000 page novel Cryptonomicon at least 4 times since 2003, and each time I still get so engrossed […]
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  3. Brian Hansen

    Steve Carell

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    December 14, 2015
    It’s late on a Monday afternoon when I catch the train; I’ve got a great date night planned ahead of me – a quick dinner, a glass of wine, and two seats for a one-time-only show in New York. Except I’m the only one on this date, and my head is heavy with chagrin about how […]
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  5. Brian Hansen

    I Made This About Bras

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    January 20, 2014
    Comedy’s not really where my head’s at right now. This is still hard for me to do regularly, as you can tell, but it feels good when it happens.  I let it all out in writing so much easier than I can do it in speech, or when I’m worried about comic intentions or being […]
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  6. Brian Hansen

    Advice, Guerilla-style

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    December 10, 2013
    I received an email about a comment on “And Now For Something…“.  After finally logging in this AM to approve it & respond, it is nowhere to be seen.  The interwebz are eating my followers. In any case, I did record a response.  The comment was posted more than 2 weeks ago, and it said […]
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  7. Brian Hansen

    What Do Rappers Drink These Days?

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    October 13, 2013
    Being on CNN.com should have been a bigger deal.  And it’s not that it wasn’t a BIG deal; I’ve gotten a lot more traffic here & gotten a few people contacting me directly and commenting on the post from 3 years ago.  But for those that are sitting & waiting for something amaze-balls to happen to […]
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  8. Brian Hansen

    Better Than A Meth Habit

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    October 23, 2012
    Meh… I don’t have any excuses. What I have are strong feelings.  Strong feelings usually accompany big events or changes.  In the last 2 months, I’ve moved, I’ve found out my office is moving (not closer), I’ve spent more money on housing & repairs than ever before, and in general have thrown everything in life […]
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  9. Brian Hansen

    I Know, Right?

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    March 9, 2012
    Where the hell have I been? Short answer:  really frikkin’ busy.  An excuse? Not a good one.  But I will say the one I have is probably the best of all possible excuses.  All of my creative energy has been going into entertaining the Nugget.  She’s such a little sponge; everything I throw out there […]
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  10. Brian Hansen

    ShowerSandwich

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    January 8, 2012
    Well, I should finally put it up here:  http://www.youtube.com/user/ShowerSandwich That’s where you’ll find most of the stuff I’m up to these days.  Takes the steam out of my actual writing, honestly, so just head over there, at least for now. That’s all.
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  12. Brian Hansen

    All Growed Up

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    December 18, 2011
    Not sure why I didn’t just start here, but I’ve now moved the “podcast” to YouTube, and I’m done calling it a podcast. If YouTube does RSS for folks, great, and if it allows folks to get stuff on mobile subscriptions, also awesome. But it’s not really a podcast on YouTube, it’s just awesome on […]
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  13. Brian Hansen

    Instant Shower for Your Butthole

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    November 29, 2011
    Episode 3 is up! Note: PodOmatic, while largely a very easy & great way to keep these things up here, only lets me embed player code that just takes you to the latest episode – so if I keep embedding it here, every embedded player will take you to the same episode. That’s less than […]
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  14. Brian Hansen

    There is only MAKE.

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    November 12, 2011
    A friend has convinced me I really just need to keep doing this sh*t & eventually something will come of it – I can stop worrying about the planning, the editing, the censorship, the material, and just MAKE it.  In his words, “There is no win, there is no fail.  There is only MAKE.” With […]
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  15. Brian Hansen

    Step #1

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    November 3, 2011
    Yeah, so I finally did it – I recorded a completely sloppy 10 mins of what I call “Make Shit Up” time.  ”Why now?” you ask, “after all that blithering & whining & complaining about how you’re too afraid to put yourself out there?”  Many, MANY reasons abound… but those on the short list: 1) […]
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  16. Brian Hansen

    That Good Old Fashioned Feeling

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    August 12, 2011
    Well, it’s certainly been entirely too long since I wrote anything like a substantive update., so I won’t even waste your time with foreplay. Job:  On the plus side, I’ve been doing it for 4 straight years (exaclty), so it’s much easier than it used to be, and I’m much more adroit at getting help […]
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  17. Brian Hansen

    Review of “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson

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    June 6, 2011
    Anathem by Neal Stephenson My rating: 3 of 5 stars First, let me say I love all other books of Neal Stephenson’s that I’ve read. In most cases, they require a hefty investment (time, weight-the books are hefty, and spiritual collateral-you need to trust him), but the reward is more often than not HIGHLY worth […]
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