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RIP: Ernest Borgnine
In his memory and honor, the GWD team I temp’d for chose to call ourselves Mermaid Man’s Fan Club since it was the last role Ernest had been doing consistently, pretty amazing for guy in his early nineties! I figured … Continue reading
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Jake spotting, it’s Pizza Time!
This was on the back of a delivery car for our favorite, every occasion pizza…Austin’s Pizza; I love Mangia too but their deep dish is for special occasions. Now that I think about it, how do I know this wasn’t … Continue reading
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Summer of 1982 VIII: TRON
We have hit the official ending for the Summer of 1982 festival but MC Zack did give everybody some hope, the people who own Blade Runner may finally capitulate on allowing Alamo to show the beloved Philip K Dick adaptation. … Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Rental
Another review going into new territory because I can’t whole-heartedly endorse this movie, especially with today’s ridiculous ticket prices. It would’ve been easier if Lincoln were clearly terrible. The mash-up of an alternate history was fine, hell I was looking forward … Continue reading
Dalek spotted at Apple
The key to their successful conquest of Earth will be how well they blend in, prevent us humans from noticing them. First there was the one I saw hiding in the New York New York casino, disguised as a garbage … Continue reading
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Roxy Music to have a boxed set!
What synchronicity or coincidence or something! While I was writing the first draft, my stream was playing Concrete Blonde’s tribute song to the legendary band “Roxy.” Plus Concrete Blonde had one of the (many) former Roxy drummers in their lineup … Continue reading
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Seven years of ‘blog form
It started out as an experiment/training exercise after I learned that Mac OS X Server 10.4 had a built-in weblog solution. Although blojsom (I think this was its name) wasn’t very elegant, the software became an effective successor to my … Continue reading
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Nada Surf
This is a special two-parter because the nice gentleman from Houston who took the above photo almost forgot to send it, thankfully Nada Surf was on tour this Summer and their Houston appearance (before Austin) reminded him. Hey, better late … Continue reading
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New banner for July in honor of the party
The Summer of 1982 officially concludes this upcoming Friday with TRON. I do plan to watch the original theatrical cut of Blade Runner at home via Blu-Ray, then take in The Wall and Fast Times at Ridgemont High later, the … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Rad!
The Radman of Phoenix celebrates what I think would be number 42. Hey he’s now the Doug Adams answer to everything for the next year. Drop him a line if you know him. I need to get a late card … Continue reading
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Happy Canada Day!
Or as we sing down in the states, “Blame Canada.” According to the Toronto Star, the nation is 145 when I could’ve sworn it’s 199. Why? I always thought our northern neighbors started the process in 1863 during the (American) … Continue reading
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Hank Hill would hate this dolphin too
You know the episode. If you haven’t seen it, go to Netflix streaming: third season, number 16. Dislike the show? Give this one a try, what happens is pretty damned funny and it was written by Jon Vitti, a key … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Ben & Mark M!
The former has the day off so I’m sure he’s celebrating at home with his lovely wife and cool kid. The latter is living it up in Belgium with his neat-o sister. I sure hope Mark M gets to sample … Continue reading
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Spider-Man
Checking back to the archives of my site, it seems Somara hasn’t made anything fancy since Wyatt’s birthday. Trust me, she has been baking cakes much to the struggle of my diet and exercise. This week Somara received a request … Continue reading
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Beyond the Black Rainbow: Acquired Taste
My first review under the new post-2011 system that lacks a rating of Must See. Up front I will say, I enjoyed Beyond and it made my heart race a bit. Somara was bored. By most accounts this would make … Continue reading