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THE MARVELS [Disney+]The Marvels is the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The budget for The Marvels was around $270 million according to a...
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FORGOTTEN BOOKS #779: DAGON By Fred ChappellCOVER ART BY JOEL BARR Fred Chappell, the great writer and teacher, died on January 4, 2024. Chappell wrote in a number of genres,...
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AN ARTHUR FIEDLER VALENTINE and LOVE BITESWith Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought two CDs of love songs would be appropriate for this post. The first is a...
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SIGN OF SEVEN Edited by Martin RosenstockSherlock Homes: The Sign of Seven includes seven longish pastiches. My favorite story is Stuart Douglas’s “Death of a...
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PFIZER PREVNAR 20 PNEUMONIA VACCINEIn the past six months Diane and I have gotten a Covid-19 Booster shot, a flu shot, and an RSV shot. Now I’ve just had a Prevnar...
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OATH AND HONOR: A MEMOIR AND A WARNING By Liz Cheney“This is the story of the moment when American democracy began to unravel. It is the story of the men and women who fought to save...
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OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA By Julia ArmfieldIf you put Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Peter Benchley’s Jaws, and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” in a...
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ROLE PLAY [AMAZON Prime Video]You might recognize Kaley Cuoco (“Penny” from The Big Bang Theory ) wearing a red wig and sharing drinks with Bill...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #778: LOVECRAFT’S BOOK By Richard A. LupoffOne of my great delights in Life is to come across a book I never knew existed. Richard A. Lupoff’s Lovecraft’s Book...
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COURT AND SPARK By Joni MitchellIt’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years since Joni Mitchell’s classic Court and Spark (1974) became...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #160: DEADLY SINSYes, I know that St. Thomas Aquinas listed “Seven Deadly Sins” in Summa Theologica but when the editors of The New York...
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CRIMINAL RECORD [Apple TV+]No, that’s not the Twelfth Doctor Who in the graphic above. That’s London Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (aka,...
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THE DEADLY RISE OF ANTI-SCIENCE By Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhDDr. Hotez is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also co-director...
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NFL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS: KANSAS CITY CHIEFS VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS and DETROIT LIONS VS. SAN FRANCISCO 49ersThe Buffalo Bills, eliminated in the NFL Divisional Round–again–will be sitting on the sidelines as the Kansas City...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #777: UNTIL TEMPTATION DO US PART By Carter BrownThis Al Wheeler mystery from 1967 features a murder of a ruthless and wealthy real estate developer, a wife who hated him,...
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THE WHEEL: 30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION By Rosanne CashIt’s hard to believe 30 years have rolled by since I first listened to Rosanne Cash’s The Wheel. I was a fan of...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #159: EVERYWHRE AN OINK OINK: AN EMBITTERED, DYSPEPTIC, AND ACCURATE REPORT OF FORTY YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD By David MametThe two best books I’ve read about how Hollywood works are William Goldman’s: Adventures in the Screen Trade : A...
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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: A MUSICALDiane, Patrick, Katie, and I saw Girl From the North Country back in June 2022 on Broadway (you can read all about it here ). The...
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FEAR IS JUST A WORD: A MISSING DAUGHTER, A VIOLENT CARTEL, AND A MOTHER’S QUEST FOR VENGEANCE By Azam AhmedIf you read Azam Ahmed’s Fear Is Just a Word , you will never go to Mexico. Ahmed tells the true story of Miriam Rodriguez who...
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NFL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS, PART 2: TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS VS. DETROIT LIONS (3:30 P.M) and KANSAS CITY CHIEFS VS. BUFFALO BILLS (6:30 P.M.)I’ll be rooting for the Detroit Lions to win this Divisional Playoff game over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Lions are...
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NFL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS, PART 1: HOUSTON TEXANS VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS (4:30 P.M.) and GREEN BAY PACKERS VS. SAN FRANCISCO 49ers (8:15 P.M.)THIS IS WHAT 30 INCHES OF SNOW LOOKS LIKE SNOW ON TOP OF OUR GENERATOR The Houston Texans travel to...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #776: ROBOTS THROUGH THE AGES Edited by Robert Silverberg and Bryan Thomas SchmidtFrom Greek myths to Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing machine, to Karel Capek’s R.U.R. where the word “robot”...
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ROCK STEADY 1971 (CELEBRATING STARBUCKS 35TH ANNIVERSARY)You’re not going to see a CD like Rock Steady 1971 at a Starbucks today. You’d have to go back to 2006 when this CD was...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #158: COLLECTING MYSELF: THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF BARRY N. MALZBERG Edited by Robert Friedman and Gregory ShepardBarry N. Malzberg has published over 500 short stories from 1970 to 2022. Many have been assembled in several of Malzberg’s short...
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THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY: AMERICAN EVANGELICALS IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM By Tim AlbertaA woman at the Pool where I frolic in every day told me, “God sent Trump to save America.” Tim Alberta’s The...
