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The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition
July 26, 2009 – 9:53 PM | 22 Comments
The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition

Typhus, the Brooklyn Dodgers of Flatbush, lesser Kennedys, seminal animé (say that five times fast), Argentine nutbars, and cod on the Cape — plus the N Cereal AA and the fall contest.These stories and more, …

N Cereal AA: The Final Four
July 20, 2009 – 9:59 PM | 29 Comments
N Cereal AA: The Final Four

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Frosted Flakes vs. Honey Bunches of Oats. Honey Bunches of Oats is what I buy so that I can tell myself that cereal isn’t just …

N Cereal AA: Elite Eight Runoff
July 20, 2009 – 9:33 AM | 14 Comments

…Hi!   …Good, good.   You know: vacay.   What’s up with you guys?   …Awesome.   So: cereals, right?
Every time I think it’s safe to close the poll, Frosted Flakes climbs back into it. …

N Cereal AA: The Elite Eight
July 11, 2009 – 8:07 AM | 11 Comments
N Cereal AA: The Elite Eight

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1 Rice Krispies vs. 2 Frosted Flakes. Wowie. Now this is a contest! I have to hand it to you fiber-loving TN voters: truly, these …

Breakfast; Wimbledon
July 2, 2009 – 5:41 PM | 2 Comments

The current rounds of the N Cereal AA will close tomorrow; we’ll return with the Sweet 16 on Monday.   While you wait, enjoy the Wimbledon Drinking Game I helped Joe R to craft, or …

N Cereal AA Round of 32, Flights 3 and 4: Fiberfest and Sugar Shock
July 1, 2009 – 10:38 AM | 23 Comments
N Cereal AA Round of 32, Flights 3 and 4: Fiberfest and Sugar Shock

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1 Quaker Oat(meal) Squares vs. 8 oatmeal. I can’t say I’m particularly surprised that traditional oatmeal triumphed over Puffed Rice, the John Tesh of breakfast …

N Cereal AA Round of 32, Flights 1 and 2: Classics and Fruit/Nut
July 1, 2009 – 9:29 AM | 22 Comments
N Cereal AA Round of 32, Flights 1 and 2: Classics and Fruit/Nut

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1 Rice Krispies vs. 9 Shredded Wheat. Each of these unadorned Classics had a relatively easy path to the Round of 32, but despite the …

N Cereal AA: Monday-morning status report
June 29, 2009 – 11:01 AM | 8 Comments

Round of 64 voting for Classics, Fruit/Nut, and Fiberfest has closed.   You can see the results here; I won’t list every cereal moving on, but highlights include the street-fight upset of Corn Flakes by …

N Cereal AA Round of 64, Flight 4: Sugar Shock
June 26, 2009 – 9:36 AM | 63 Comments
N Cereal AA Round of 64, Flight 4: Sugar Shock

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1 Captain Crunch/Crunchberry vs. 16 Krusty-Os. Well, we had to have one fictional cereal in here, right?Krusty-Os don’t exist outside the Simpsons-verse, so I can’t speak …

N Cereal AA Classics Run-Off: Corn Flakes vs. Cocoa Krispies
June 25, 2009 – 10:50 AM | 16 Comments

Dead heat, guys.   You’ve got ’til 6 PM EDT to pick me a winner.
Update, 6:27 PM: Cocoa Krispies it is, 51% to 49%. View the updated bracket here.   Don’t forget that we start …