Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Weather forecast as of 4:30 pm EST:

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Major winter storm event forecast to hit the eastern seaboard on Saturday and Sunday, four days from now. I'm hearing all kinds of wild ...
Friday, January 16, 2026

The Winds of Never? The musings of a GRRMbler (will we EVER see this book?)

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The Hollywood Reporter has posted a new and thorough interview with George R.R. Martin , that will be of immense interest to his many fans. ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Rest in peace Scott Adams

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  The very sad news is breaking this morning that Scott Adams , the brilliant cartoonist who drew the comic strip Dilbert  for several decad...

There is now an "Autistic Barbie" doll. So that got me thinking...

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This week toy maker Mattel  has introduced the world to "Autistic Barbie" .  The latest in a line of the classic doll's attemp...
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Friday, January 09, 2026

This 2-and-a-half inch tall miniature portends a wild future

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Yesterday I came upon a story that has wound up sticking in my gray matter, because what it foreshadows is going to be world-changing in a w...
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Monday, January 05, 2026

After the Stranger Things finale: What I believe happens...

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As of tonight it has been 120 hours since the series finale of Stranger Things  dropped on Netflix.  And in that time the Internets have bee...
Thursday, January 01, 2026

Jerry Bledsoe, one of my favorite authors, has passed away

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The sad news is coming out of Asheboro, North Carolina this evening that Jerry Bledsoe , the prolific author who among other things hit the ...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

"The Rightside Up", the Stranger Things series finale, finished about 20 minutes ago

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 What did I think of it? This was as perfect an ending to a story as The Lord of the Rings  had.  I am soooo not kidding. The final scenes.....
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Calvin and Hobbes ended thirty years ago today

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On Sunday, December 31st 1995, the last Calvin and Hobbes  comic strip was published.  For ten years readers had laughed and thrilled at the...

Well, I've done it...

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Come midnight tonight, for the second year in a row, I will have made it through the entire holiday season without once  hearing Mariah Care...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

MeTV is now running Hawaii Five-O on weekdays

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This isn't the more recent series.  MeTV is playing the original Hawaii Five-O  at 11 a.m. EST on weekdays.  Yesterday and today the net...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

I've been called conservative. I believe homosexuality is wrong. And I'm about to defend Will Byers on Stranger Things (buuuut...)

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 On Christmas Night I started watching the newest three episodes, volume 2 it's being called, of the final season of Stranger Things .  ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2025

Why the Star Wars Holiday Special was so bad, in the words of the man who made it

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It's become something of a tragic holiday tradition for me.  Every year about this time, I watch The Star Wars Holiday Special  - consid...
Monday, December 22, 2025

The seventieth anniversary of Good Will to Men

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It was on December 23rd, 1955 - seventy years ago tomorrow - that Metro-Golden-Mayer released Good Will to Men .  This is one of my all-tim...

An Aviation First: Airplane touches down safely after deploying "autoland" system

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This is something I wish Dad were still here to tell about it too.  As much as he disdained computers, he would no doubt find this to be ver...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Fallout presents: The Ghoul Log

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The second season of Fallout  premiered a few days ago on Amazon Prime.  I haven't seen it yet but I'll probably watch it later this...