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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Forsaking one happiness for another, or: "Why don't you have a girlfriend Chris?"

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Every so often someone asks me the question: "Chris, why don't you have someone special in your life?" It's not a bad ques...
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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Just finished watching Stranger Things season five, volume one. Aaaaaand...

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Good GOOGLY MOOOGLY!!  Holy HECK!!  Good LORD!!  Jeebus cripes crispies with milk!!! I mean, did I just watch that?  I watched that.  That j...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Thanksgiving 2025: What I am thankful for

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States.  And though it has been adopted by a few other countries, the American observation of th...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Weird News: Man disguises himself as dead mother to get her government pension checks

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Y'know, I really  need to post more crazy stuff.  I used to do it all the time.  It adds some variety to this place.  But I don't wa...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

It's five days until Thanksgiving 2025

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 Remember... A bit of classic humor from good friend of this blog Lee Shelton  who first created this pic in 2009  :-)  (In case anyone'...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

A new question about Keeping the Tryst: What happened in the cafeteria at Elon

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My book  Keeping the Tryst  has been out for a little over a month and a half now.  It's been doing pretty well sales-wise.  Okay it...
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On friendship, family, and difference of opinion

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In the wake of some recent events I'm feeling the need to say something lately, that I've reiterated a number of times before... I h...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is fifty years old today!

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 Released on November 19th, 1975. Coach W.A. Wall, our health teacher during my sophomore year of high school, told us about this movie one ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Short Sugar's Barbecue Sauce has hit store shelves!!

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For the past ten months the number-one question that has been asked of this blogger has been: "Do you know when the Short Sugar's b...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

In honor of today being Veterans Day...

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Here is my father, Robert Knight, circa 1958.  He was nineteen years old at the time, serving in the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. No...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Fifty years ago tonight: "We are holding our own."

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Those were the last words radioed out by the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald . It was fifty years ago tonight, November 10th, 1975, that the Edmund F...
Saturday, November 08, 2025

Just watched Benecio del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein

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I've been looking forward to Frankenstein , Benicio del Toro's take of the classic novel, from the moment it was first announced.  F...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

"BROTHER, YOU ASKED FOR IT!"

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I wasn't surprised at all by the results of yesterday's elections.  Decades of watching this sort of thing have deeply impressed thi...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

The final trailer for Stranger Things season five

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"William, you are going to help me... one last time." Love that cover of Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever?"  I hav...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

So... the BBC just said that Doctor Who is still alive and that there will be a Christmas special in 2026

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 I say FORGET IT! From the good ol' days when a Doctor Who Christmas special really MEANT something. I shall properly preface this post ...
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Monday, October 27, 2025

On Citizenship: It's time to consider Heinlein's idea

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For the past few days I've been working on an op-ed piece focusing on the current race for mayor in New York City.  And narrowing that f...
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