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Category: CULTURE

  • Crying Jordans: Week in review – 11/8/16

    Crying Jordans: Week in review – 11/8/16

    This will be our election day special (thank god it’s almost over) this might be a Cubs heavy week in review with their historic World Series title win, so here goes. The first one up is simply amazing and with what Epstein has done in MLB and the amount of pressure he’s been under, a […]

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  • Enough with the generational divide

    Enough with the generational divide

    There are plenty of articles and feelings about the generational divide among Millennials (people who reached young adulthood around the year 2000) and Baby Boomers (People born years shortly following World War II). For whatever reason there is a lingering dislike among these two groups of people. Most noticeably in the work place. I’m here […]

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  • “The Power of Now” – A book review and more

    “The Power of Now” – A book review and more

    I fancy myself an intellectual, a deep thinker that thirsts for substance. Occasionally I need to step away from the Clinton vs Trump/Kardashian filled news and the never-ending saga of sports and exercise my brain with something more meaningful. And in that search I found “The Power of Now”. Eckart Tolle is a German author, […]

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  • F*ck Thankfulness

    F*ck Thankfulness

    Facebook timelines will fill with “One thing I am thankful for” posts this month. The holiday centered around being humble and grateful is celebrated by the gluttony of food and capitalism, and we’ll all be sucked in. While we try to look our relatives in the face and not talk about the elephant and donkey […]

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  • The world A.D.: After Derek

    The world A.D.: After Derek

    April 23, 2015: a day that will live in infamy. The day Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepard left this earth. Grey’s Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, did the unthinkable – she killed off the world’s most handsome neurosurgeon. Over nine million viewers mourned the death of McDreamy. Some of us took it harder than others. Grey’s Anatomy […]

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  • 2016 Holiday Game Guide – Part 2

    2016 Holiday Game Guide – Part 2

    Don’t forget Part One The holiday shopping season is right around the corner. If you are a gamer like me, then you know that there is usually a flood of highly anticipated releases around this time every year. I have decided to highlight some of the games coming out around this Holiday season and created […]

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  • 2016 Holiday Game Guide – Part 1

    2016 Holiday Game Guide – Part 1

    It’s a good time to be a gamer. While the buzz in the gaming community is currently surrounding the wildly anticipated Red Dead Redemption 2, there are plenty of games that have released or will release in 2016 to hold you off until Rockstar brings us back to the Old West. Fellow TGS writer Brett […]

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  • Crying Jordans: Week in review – 10/25/16

    Crying Jordans: Week in review – 10/25/16

    What a week on the old internet machines! We’ve got several offerings from a variety of areas this week – quite a few Cubs/Dodgers ones, but that’s to be expected with the magnitude of the Cubs making the World Series. Enjoy. Well, this situation didn’t last very long since Geno busticated his ACL ligament and […]

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  • Back in the saddle again

    Back in the saddle again

    Red Dead Redemption came out in May 2010 and was an absolute blockbuster. Since then I have been wondering when and if they would make a sequel to it.  Well it appears the wait is over and the trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped this morning. In anticipation of the release of the trailer, TGS […]

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  • Video Breakdown: “Every Little Step”

    Welcome to the TGS Video Breakdown Series, where I take a look at the music videos of some of our favorite artists and point out the awesome, the absurd, and the inexplicable. This week we look at Bobby Brown’s classic, “Every Little Step”. Oh yes. It’s me again, the crazy one. The Video Breakdown series […]

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