At the height of his fame, Martin shifted his focus from stand-up to acting and writing. He called his memoir, Born Standing Up, a biography of “someone I used to know.” Originally broadcast in 2008.
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Author: Terry Gross
In ‘Dirt,’ Bill Buford Is Able To Offer An Authentic Adventure In French Cooking
As a longtime Paris resident, at first I feared Dirt might be yet another expat tale of moving to France en famille, with all its tedious clichés. I should have known better.
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Author: Eleanor Beardsley
Incredible Security: The Xbox Series X Will Deter Would-Be Burglars By Emitting A Rotting Crab Smell At All Times
Microsoft just launched the first real volley in the next-gen wars! To cap off yesterday’s impressive Xbox Series X games event, the hardware juggernaut announced that every iteration of their upcoming console will deter burglars by emitting a rotting crab smell at all times.
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Watch What Happens When You Zoom In On This Bread
Well, would you look at that, a slice of bread. You see it everyday, but you probably don’t look very closely. Well, that’s about to change. Let’s zoom in a little bit.
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12 Sure Signs You Directed The 2006 Motion Picture ‘Babel’
After Babel debuted to acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, critics compared it to your previous films Amores Perros and 21 Grams.
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Study Finds It Statistically Impossible That Your Mom The Best Mom In The World
Of the thousands of mothers observed across the country, researchers found that even though you may think she’s the best in the whole wide world, your mom is actually far, far from it, and most likely at or below average at best.
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Kansas Unveils $1.5 Million, 50,000-Square-Mile ‘Bless This Mess’ Border Mat
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Can Riot Games Make ‘Valorant’ An Esports Success? Signs Point To Yes
Riot Games is known as the League of Legends studio — apart from some spinoffs, they’ve never done anything else. But now they’re trying something new, a first-person shooter called Valorant.
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Author: Kaity Kline
Only Nineties Kids Will Remember the Way Things Used to Be
Jonathan Zeller offers a humorous and nostalgic list of aspects of popular culture from the nineteen-nineties that are profoundly different from cultural reference points for the youth of today.
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Author: Jonathan Zeller
How A Virtual Powwow Helped Heal A Spirit Broken During The Pandemic
Kay Oxendine of the Haliwa Saponi Tribe in North Carolina, was set to serve as the first woman to emcee of the tribe’s annual powwow — until the event was canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Author: Rose Friedman