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Suburban Metal Dad no. 160: “Vowell & Verb”
Welcome to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s new webcomic. It runs every Monday and Friday. Each edition of SMD features Sort-Of Soundtrack, an optional metal song that plays in a new window. Click HERE for the real
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Suburban Metal Dad no. 159: “Video Parenting”
Welcome to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s new webcomic. It runs every Monday and Friday. Each edition of SMD features Sort-Of Soundtrack, an optional metal song that plays in a new window. Click HERE for the real
Read More »Book Review: “Long Range Goals”
The United States’ performance in the World Cup last month, and the attention if brought, caused many commentators, sports and otherwise, to ask if this was the moment when soccer finally arrived in America.
Read More »World Cup: Final Recap
Netherlands 0-1 Spain (after extra time) Call this one a win for attacking soccer. Although it doesn’t seem that way after four consecutive 1-0 victories, but throughout this World Cup, Spain were committed to
Read More »World Cup: Semifinal 1 Recap and Semifinal 2 Preview
Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands Usually in soccer, the phrase “Let the old defender who played for years in Scotland shoot from distance” is a good defensive strategy. But for Uruguay, it backfired. Thankfully for them,
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 21 Recap and Semifinal 1 Preview
Argentina 0-4 Germany Germany might not have played a traditional Teutonic style, but their tactics today were straight out of their playbook: score early, sit back and counter strongly. Part of that was because
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 19 Recap and Matchday 20 Previews
Paraguay 0-0 Japan (5-3 on penalties) As with Uruguay v. South Korea, this was always going to be the appetizer to the main course later in the day. But the marinara for the mozzarella
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 18 Recap and Matchday 19 Previews
Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia After all of yesterday’s drama, this game was bound to be a return to what we expect in the group stage: a perpetual favorite dispatching an overmatched opponent without too much
Read More »World Cup: Matchday 17 Recaps and Matchday 18 Previews
Germany 4-1 England This is going to be remembered as the game in which the ghosts of 1966 were evoked as payback in this famous rivalry. But even if Frank Lampard’s shot had tied
Read More »World Cup: Recap of Ghana v. Germany and Australia v. Serbia and Matchday 14 Previews
Ghana 0-1 Germany Australia 2-1 Serbia The second set of games of the day were no less thrilling – four teams, all of whom were still capable of advancing. The biggest surprise was Australia
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