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JIM HENSON IDEA MAN [Disney+]Jim Henson was a genius. Patrick and Katie loved Sesame Street as little kids. We all loved The Muppet Show. Ron Howard directed...
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WHY WE DIE: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality By Venki Ramakrishnan“What we mean when we say we die is that we stop functioning as a coherent whole. The collection of cells that forms our tissues...
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THE BEACH BOYS [Disney+]In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys were one of my favorite groups. I bought their albums, listened to their songs, and even...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #797: THE JADE-EYED JUNGLE By Carter BrownI’ve read dozens of Carter Brown’s Al Wheeler mysteries featuring a randy but clever police investigator. Carter Brown had...
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THE SOUL STORY, Volume Two [2-CD Set]There were at latest 7 volumes in this TIME-LIFE series. I like Volume Two because I like most of the songs. Yes, there are some...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #178: THE GIST HUNTER & OTHER STORIES By Matthew HughesThe Gist Hunter and Other Stories collects nine stories set in Matthew Hughes’s universe of The Archonate, plus four non-series stories....
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HIT MAN [Netflix]Glen Powell plays college professor Gary Johnson who moonlights as “Hit Man” for the New Orleans police. Powell’s...
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THE 30 GREATEST BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME [https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-book-series/?sh=3d29ad6c7a95]This seems to be the season for “Best of” and “Greatest” lists. Last week, it was Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums...
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HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY TO ME!Pizza, green salad, veggie platter, carrot cake, ice cream, and apple pie!
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THE ACOLYTE [Disney+]The Acolyte , a new 8-episode series on Disney+, is set 100 years before Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999). The series...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #796: THE INFILTRATORS BY Donald HamiltonI read my first Matt Helm spy novel when I was 11 years old in 1960. Matt Helm works for a super secret spy agency and specializes in...
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GRAMMY NOMINEES 2009It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 15 years since these songs competed for Grammy Awards. As you might recall, Robert...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #177: THE MEASURE OF MALICE: SCIENTIFIC DETECTION STORIES Edited by Martin EdwardsI’m a big fan of Martin Edwards’s anthologies (you can read some of my reviews here and here ). The Measure of Malice:...
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ERIC [Netflix]“A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his...
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IS AMERICA DICTATOR-PROOF?With Donald J. Trump, presumptive Nominee for President of the Republican Party, now a convicted felon the danger to Democracy in America...
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TRIPLE BERRY NUT TRAIL MIXI’m always looking for good tasting snacks with moderate carbohydrates. I was in Sam’s Club last week and walked by a...
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UNFROSTED [Netflix]Check out the cast of Unfrosted: Jerry Seinfeld: Plays Bob Cabana and also directed and co-wrote the film Melissa...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #795: RELIC and RELIQUARY By Douglas Preston & Lincoln ChildFor 30 years or so, I’ve seen books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child in Book Sales and on remainder tables. I...
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APPLE MUSIC 100 BEST ALBUMSThere’s plenty to debate in considering the rankings (and album choices) on Apple Music’s latest list of the 100 Best Albums of All...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #176: THE FIENDS OF NIGHTMARIA By Steven EricksonSteven Erikson, best known for the fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen , has also written a number of novellas set in the...
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ATLAS [Netflix]The pluses of Atlas: Jennifer Lopez–a brilliant data analyst) takes on a rogue Artificial Intelligence who wants to cleanse the...
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DOCTOR STRANGE: DIMENSION WAR By James Lovegrove“ Doctor Strange: Dimension War is based on the original comics by Stan “The Man” Lee, “Sturdy” Steve...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaNine years ago, Mad Max: Fury Road set high standard for the pure action Summer Movie and won six Oscars for its incredible look and...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #794: KIDNAPPED By Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson . It was marketed as a boys’ novel to the same...
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SIMPLY THE BEST 60s [2-CD Set]After listening to the Senior Prom CDs last week, I listened to this double CD set of 1960s music. It contains another head shaking...
