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Gender Swap Casting: My Casting Choices for The Producers

My last post was an episode of Gender Swap Casting, in which I proposed casting women in the roles played by men in a remake of Mel Brook’s original The Producers with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. (Plus one mimbo for the Lee Meredith role!) What is gender swap casting you say? In the Wake …

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Gender Swap Casting: The Producers

What is gender swap casting you say? In the Wake of the controversial Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, I was inspired by a tweet by blogger Geraldine DeRuiter who said the Joker should be a woman. I asked my Facebook friends about a theoretical Joker movie with a woman playing the Joker and asked who they …

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My Training Day at Pacific Pinball Museum

In case you haven’t heard, I Jeffrey Matucha, a mere Bay Area Native, am going to try and break the World Record for the longest time playing pinball in the middle of April at the San Francisco pinball arcade Free Gold Watch. I am doing this in conjunction with raising funds for Parent Project Muscular …

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Acronyms: How to get Instant Nerd Cred!

I am currently taking an online course in Cryptography and I’m learning a lot about the nuts and bolts of modern encryption, especially the standards, how to write proofs, and other elegant details about encryption that we all use everyday without thinking about it. In taking this course I am learning about all kinds of …

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Yes, I actually sent this email today.

The following is an email I sent today to a Pinball Arcade in the San Francisco Bay Area. Yes, I am totally serious about doing this! Hey there. Remember me? I’m the guy who wants to break a World Record for playing pinball! I would like to meet up to discuss this idea in person, …

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My Roommate Soup’s Final Resting Place. (One of them…)

I made a box for my late roommate Soup. Soup was not a human. Soup was a cat . Soup was not my cat. My friend Jen was Soup’s human, and we all used to be roommates some time ago in a house in Berkeley, California. (Jen is a musician who plays for The Hammerbombs …

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When you’re talking to someone and you get all “…”

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This post was from a few years ago. I was at my German speaking group and I was talking to a vegan about Sarah Kramer, a …

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Matucha Of Berkeley’s Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks

Matucha Of Berkeleys Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks With Pixie Stix And Moonshine You can find this recipe here! Prepare a large quantity of Hackey Sacks for cooking. Combine Pixie stix, coffee grounds, Potting mix, and bread crumbs in a small bowl – sprinkle Hackey Sacks with Pixie stix mixture. Place Hackey Sacks in a circular …