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How to Skip the Office Pizza Party and Still Be a ‘Team Player’
If there’s one thing the corporate world loves, it’s doling out an office pizza party. You hit your numbers for the quarter? That’s an office pizza party. A longtime worker is retiring? Having a baby? Hitting a milestone birthday? Pizza party, pizza party, pizza party.
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15 of the Wildest Nicholas Cage Performances, Ranked by Intensity
A new Nicolas Cage movie is dropping this week, and it’s the broadest theatrical release for a Cage movie since the long-ago, pre-Covid era. In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the actor plays…Nicolas Cage in a bit of meta-style shenaniganery. The early reviews have been pretty good, which is good, because it looks like…
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Why You Really Should Go to Your High School Reunion
Receiving an invitation to your high school class reunion can be emotionally complex, to say the least. Here is proof that you are ageing (and quickly!), as well as a solicitation to go socialise with other ageing folk with whom you may or may not have gotten along when you were younger. You might feel…
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15 Oscar-Winning Animated Shorts Under 15 Minutes Long
The Academy Awards are upon us, and you still have a bit of time to catch up on the nominated films…but not a lot. Theatre-to-streaming windows are shorter than ever, which makes catching the nominees easier than ever, but ever-expanding runtimes (the average length of this year’s Best Picture nominees is a butt-numbing 139 minutes)…