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  Miss the Mayan Mindbender? Ride Revenge of the Mummy

  August 22 at 5:30 a.m.

  Do you remember the Mayan Mindbender at AstroWorld? I certainly do. It was the park’s first indoor rollercoaster, which was a wonder even back before climate change turned Houston pavements into egg griddles. Installed in 1995 after a stint as Nightmare at Boblo Island, it was a 1,148 ft coaster...

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  Swedish Death Cleaning: Lessons Learned and Living Life in Reverse

  August 20 at 4 a.m.

  I've mined those open/closed wounds, explaining why I've become a huge fan of Swedish death cleaning, or döstädning, the process of slowly decluttering so that your death isn't a burden for those you leave behind. [related stories] As a three-time winner of being left to clean up a messy estate,...

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  Swedish Death Cleaning: Scripts In Search of a Stage

  August 13 at 4 a.m.

  Döstädning is the process of slowly decluttering so that your death isn't a burden for those you leave behind. As a three-time winner of "being left behind" with a messy estate to clean up, I've become a huge advocate of Swedish death cleaning. Sure, the laws of reproduction mean we're only issued...

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  Swedish Death Cleaning: One Woman's Trash is Another's Treasure

  August 6 at 4 a.m.

  My local thrift store became overwhelmed with donations earlier this year, so much so that they had to close one extra day a week just to process and catch up. Netflix was streaming Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and apparently we were all following the KonMari Method™ of clearing out clutter,...

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  Swedish Death Cleaning: Don Quixote and Those Windmills

  July 30 at 4 a.m.

  We've all been horrified by those hoarding shows on television where a hazmat-suited army carries pile after pile of accumulated "stuff" out to a construction dumpster while the distressed homeowner argues valiantly about the merit of each object. That's the worst kind of hoarding, a compulsion that invites rodents and...

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  Trump is President So I Can Say “Happy Halloween” Now

  July 30 at 4 a.m.

  The other day I walked into a Cracker Barrel looking for pot roast and hashbrown casserole, and I saw they’d already put the Halloween stuff out for sale in the store part. If you thought Cracker Barrel, with its loooong history of being incredibly crappy to LGBT people until very,...