Dan Poynter

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Review: Big D’z Dawgz

Besides being uncomfortable to type, Big D’z Dawgz is a food vendor that can be found during the week on Holmes street between Children’s Mercy Hospital and UMKC Med School in Kansas City, Missouri. Due to an imposed hot dog and french fry diet earlier in my life, I didn’t eat hot dogs with any regularity …

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Review: Smokin’ Aces BBQ

Smokin’ Aces BBQ is a food vendor found on Holmes street between Children’s Mercy Hospital and UMKC Med School in Kansas City, Missouri. My first impression of Smokin’ Aces was of some place I didn’t want to visit: a black travel trailer with the words, ‘Smokin’ Aces BBQ’ painted on the side in red and …

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Personal question

Last week when we were at the store picking up a couple of things, a clerk named Rachel had helped us. She is in high school. When Heather went back a couple days ago, Rachel was working again. “Can I ask you a personal question?” she asked Heather as she rung he up. “Suuurrrre,” said …

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Quotable: Ray Bradbury

“It affects us only one way: We’re angry as [expletive deleted]. And we have to find these people and kill them. It’s very simple, you can’t let them get away with this. This is a terrible, terrible thing they’ve done.” –Ray Bradbury in the Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2001.

Movies better than their books

People usually say that books are always better than the movies made from them. I can think of a few exceptions, whose movies are markedly better than their source material. I don’t intend to provide any justification for my view; it’s just a list: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, based on Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by …

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So you want a Jeep

My wife had wanted a Jeep ever since she was a kid (probably from watching too much Dukes of Hazzard and MacGyver). Anyway, the 20-year wait was recently over and we picked her up a 1988 Wrangler after my awesome Mazda finally bit the dust just shy of 350,000 miles. First, a Jeep Wrangler is …

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VBS Hangover

A friend of mine coined this term to describe the fatigue experienced by those church members that worked Vacation Bible School and which contributed to their tardiness the following Sunday morning.

“There’s a guy outside…

Church was over and Tim came and got me and Rob. “There’s a guy outside and he says he wants to talk to a ‘church leader.’” Rob and I look at each other and go outside. The guy is tall and thick-built, middle-aged. He has a medium-sized brown and white dog. “I drove out here …

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Bad Computer

Found on a PC I went to fix:

Bamboo forest

I found and took a screenshot of this when I was searching for images of bamboo.