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NEW RESMED AIRSENSE 11 and Fisher & Paykel EVORA CPAP MASKI was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea in 1995. Since that time I’ve used 5 different Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP)...
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BARBIEThe movie starts out, logically, with Barbie, played by Margot Robbie as “Stereotypical Barbie”—the gorgeous but feckless basic version...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #750: LOVE & DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL, WAITING FOR THE END, and WHAT WAS LITERATURE? By Leslie A. FiedlerOn this milestone of my 750th FFB post, I want to express my thanks to two people–no longer with us–who helped me in my...
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THE FABULOUS FIFTIES: GREAT MEMORIES and 50’s SOCK HOPFrom young Michael Padgett and his girl friend sharing a soda at the Malt Shop on the cover of The Fabulous Fifties: Great Moments...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #133: HIT PARADE OF TEARS By Izumi SuzukiIzumi Suzuki, who died in 1986, wrote stories full of black comedy. In Hit Parade of Tears, just published by Verso Press, Suzuki...
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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, SEASON 5After four seasons of biting humor, the vampires in What We Do In the Shadows return in Season 5 with several intriguing plot lines....
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THE LAST ACTION HEROES: THE TRIUMPHS, FLOPS, AND FEUDS OF HOLLYWOOD’S KINGS OF CARNAGE By Nick de SemlyenPatti Abbott recently wrote that Tom Cruise is the last movie star. And, Cruise has done his share of action movies, especially the...
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DEATH IN FINE CONDITION By Andrew CartmelI’ve been a fan of Andrew Cartmel’s Vinyl Detective series for years (you can read my reviews here , here , here , here ,...
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“Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One”Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning – Part One from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Christopher...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #749: THE NAKED AND THE DEADLY By Lawrence BlockIn his introduction to The Naked and the Deadly, Lawrence Block discusses how he got into writing for men’s adventure magazines...
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DOUBLE CELEBRATION!My youngest sister Paula and her husband from Florida came to visit us so Diane and I decided to celebrate Paula’s recent...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #132: THE SEED OF EARTH/NEXT STOP THE STARS By Robert SilverbergCover art by Ed Valigursky . / COVER ART BY EMSH This was the first collection of Robert...
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THE LINCOLN LAWYER, SEASON 2 [Netflix]Last week, Netflix released five of the ten episodes of The Lincoln Lawyer, Season 2 . The next five episodes will be released on...
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MONSTERS: A FAN’S DILEMMA By Claire Dederer“On March 10, 1977…Roman Polanski brought Samatha Bailey to his friend Jack Nicholson’s house in the Hollywood Hills....
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THE GHOST-WRANGLER By Matthew HughesMatthew Hughes frequently channels Jack Vance and writes stories and novels that capture the style and substance of Vance’s classic...
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SILENT INVASION [Disney+]Disney+ series based on STAR WARS and MARVEL have mixed reviews. Of course, The Mandalorian was a big hit. I really liked Loki....
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #748: THEMES IN SCIENCE FICTION Edited by Leo P. KelleyLeo P. Kelley (no relation) was a Science Fiction writer who edited three “academic” anthologies (see below) for McGraw-Hill....
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HEART–GREAT HITS/LIVE and BOB SEGER: GREATEST HITSI’ve been listening to a couple of Greatest Hits CDs from the 1990s. Heart toured extensively in the 1980s when their videos were...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #131: PLAYING GAMES Edited by Lawrence BlockLawrence Block’s latest theme anthology from Subterranean Press just arrived. All the stories involve games. Patti Abbott’s...
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SAY IT LOUD! ON RACE, LAW, HISTORY, AND CULTURE By Randall KennedyRandall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, presents 29 essays on race in the United States in Say It Loud!...
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MY JOURNEYS IN ECONOMIC THEORY By Edmund PhelpsWhen you win a Nobel Prize in Economics you’re entitled to write a short book about how it happened. Edmund Phelps was born in...
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FORGOTTEN BOOKS #747: THE FIFTH GRAVE (THE UNEXPURGATED TEXT) By Jonathan LatimerCOVER ART BY RUDOLPH BELARSKI Back in the early 1940s, Jonathan Latimer wrote a Private Eye novel titled Solomon’s Vineyard that...
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SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES (3-CD Set)Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s. Over...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #130: THE REEL STUFF Edited by Brian Thomsen & Martin H. GreenbergCOVER BY LES EDWARDS This anthology from 1998 reprints stories that were turned into movies or TV shows. “We Can Remember It...
