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By Mark Zeiger, March 4, 2020

While the world tracks and decides how to deal with Covid-19, a new and growing form of coronavirus, our family is fiddling while the world burns, playing the cooperative game, Pandemic by Z-Man Games (paid link).

The box cover of Pandemic by Z-Man Games (Image: Amazon.com).

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By Mark Zeiger, February 2, 2020

I hear tell some sports teams are doing something considered important today. Once again, we’re ignoring that, but still gathering with friends to eat and watch T.V.

Unlike past years, when we held Austen Fest, (see An Alternative to the Superbowl—Austen Fest and Austen Fest 2018) we’re doing Quirky British Comedies. And by “British,” we mean Irish as well, even though one of our “Irish” selections was actually filmed on the Isle of Man.

Waking Ned Devine, (paid link) an Irish story actually filmed on the Isle of Man (Image: Amazon.com).

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