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Josh Dobbin currently travels ninety miles per second around the sun, one hundred and thirty six miles per second around the galaxy, and one hundred and eighty five miles per second within the local cluster of known galaxies. He accomplishes these spectacular feats all while standing still. Josh is fond of stories about (but not limited to) knights, wizards, robots, spacemen, monsters, thieves and cowboys. Occasionally, he writes things of varying size that other people read. This is one of those times.

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 1M ago

What I Do on This Day

What’s the T.S. Elliot line? April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Yeah. Three years ago today, my dad, after an epic and days-long struggle with chemo-related pneumonia, breathed his last breath. In true J

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 1M ago

About Trayvon Martin. Sort of.

There are a million things to say about the Trayvon Martin killing. There are political and racial angles, there’s gun issues, there’s notions about how all of these things intersect with gated communities and homeowner associations (HOAs). There’s the reactionary politics and the need for “side-t

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 3M ago

The Golden Hour

My oldest daughter is at an age now, caught between implicit belief in things and learning how things really work. She can understand how it only seems that the sun rises and sets, but know that we’re on a rotating sphere, which in turn revolves around a cosmic, nuclear furnace. And yet she still be

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 4M ago

Kim Jong Ut-Oh

Are you like me? In the absence of any information about him, did you entertain a weird moment of hope that Kim Jong Il’s son was maybe going to be somehow more grounded and in the real world and might be like some sort of storybook prince who makes up for the evils of his [...]

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 4M ago

Of Love and Snack Cakes

I had wanted to write a timely article about Hostess snack cakes, with Hostess filing for bankruptcy being in the news. But between trying to get the kids fed and to sleep and then trying to finish the book I’m writing, it seemed sort of superfluous. But it reminded me of something I had written [..

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 7M ago

In Which I Attempt A Meme

The blog is sleeping, not dead. Just trying to finish the book I’m writing, so free writing-time goes there and not here. This is the first “Look, ma, I made a meme!” things I’ve done. I’ve often wondered who and where these things come from. So, if you are of a mind, spread it like [...]

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 8M ago

A Letter From My Dad, to Himself. But Also to Me.

(for Donnacha) A while back, after a punishing rain, I helped clear out my mother’s basement of damaged boxes and old and useless things tucked down there for convenience’s sake, which had grown to an inconvenient tangle of things. Artifacts of our life, of my dad’s life. Important things. I was u

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 11M ago

The Manliest of All Possible Intros

I had no idea this cartoon existed until the other day. The opening theme song is quite possibly the best thing you will hear all day. Or year. Or century. It is just so shameless and presentational. If you go that route, you have to go hard and pass through a barrier of “bad” to [...]

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 11M ago

In Which I Begrudgingly Admit The Awesomeness of A Parody-Video

I’m really not into the whole spin-the-bottle-mock-o-tron-3000 thing that goes on with stuff like Rebecca Black. My only real take-away from that big, momentary Warhol-fame-bomb was that her parents, society, and people’s general sense of decency failed this poor girl. All in that order. A lot of th

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Josh Dobbin Dot Com · 11M ago

This Can Only End Badly

I’m a science booster. I’m a robot booster. When it comes to advances, I’m on Team Boost. But I gotta say, I have a kind of pit-of-the-stomach uncanny valley reaction in my gut and spine when I see robots veering toward anthropomorphism like this. Scientists at UC3M are joining together in a shared

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