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Ice-cream fans cast more than three thousand votes, and while vanilla got out to an initial lead, mint chocolate chip surged back for the win, 56% to 44%.
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Alan Sepinwall, in the comments thread of his post on Heroes earlier today:
[M]y feeling is that the show wasn’t even that good in season 1, outside of a handful of episodes (“Five Years Later,” “Company …

A reminder: Film Park Slope kicks off tonight at 7:30 PM (doors open 7:15-ish) with Ira Sachs’s Married Life, followed by an in-person Q&A with Sachs himself. Series sensei Keith Uhlich asked me to …

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Mint chocolate chip vs. vanilla. Is this match-up proof that vanilla isn’t boring and green dyed ice cream isn’t radioactive? I’m not sure. What I do know is that I love vanilla ice cream. …
Because a few people have asked…fans of David Foster Wallace should read Troy Patterson’s write-up for Slate. Troy is a fellow vet of our college paper, and his take is on point as usual.
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I’m looking for a WP widget for use with photos, one that either 1) allows me to put a graphic ONTO the photo (a little cartoon head, a virtual Post-It, like that), or 2) works …

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Cookie dough vs. mint chocolate chip. I have the same problem with cookie dough ice cream that I have with candy corn: I can’t eat just one kernel, or just …
From The House Next Door poobah Keith Uhlich:
I’m helping to run a film society in my neighborhood called “Film Park Slope.” It’s held, as long as scheduling allows, every month at Congregation Beth Elohim(271 Garfield …
And now, your Frozen Four match-ups: cookie dough vs. mint chocolate chip and strawberry vs. vanilla.Mildly surprised that neither peanut-butter-based entry survived, especially in the case of strawberry’s victory (which came by the narrowest of …

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Cookie dough vs. chocolate. Chocolate is a strong default, but I think cookie dough scores higher on the “unable to put down the pint until it’s …