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Above: Lake near Nisswa, Minnesota My earliest memory of listening to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, his ‘Emperor’ Concerto is at my maternal grandparents’ house in Nisswa, Minnesota, a lakeside town in the Northern United States. That’s where my grandparents moved when Papa retired from his job with Ford Motor Company in 1994. My […]
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Image Credit: Nickelodeon. Description: Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star. Just over 14 years ago, the golden age of a certain absorbent and yellow and porous sponge came to a tragic end. While it’s dangerous to use such a nostalgic term, Stephen Hillenburg’s departure following his directorial work on The Spongebob Movie (2004) undoubtedly led to […]
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Image: CC Dids from Pexels. Description: a Nintendo DS. Glare at me, tut at me, judge me if you like. It won’t make any difference. Times were hard, and game developers needed to be taught a lesson. In the year of 2007, I strolled into my nearest GAME store and bought an Action Replay for […]
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Children’s fiction contains a Wonderland of possibilities: dragons, mermaids and animal croquet (partially replicated on Oxford’s quads in Trinity). From the enchanting halls of Hogwarts to the battered old tent in Horrid Henry’s back garden, we all have memories – hopefully endearing – of reading as a child. Yet it wasn’t until I arrived at […]
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