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Friday, January 30, 2026

John Carpenter's The Thing has been added to the National Film Registry

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  This is great!!  One of my favorite movies of all time.  In fact, I watched it this past weekend as the ice was beginning to fall.  It...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Remembering STS-51-L: The final flight of the Challenger

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Forty years ago today came the end of the childhood of my generation. The space shuttle Challenger  was blown to bits shortly after liftoff,...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The first (and last?) winter storm of the season is behind us

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I feel kind of foolish now.  In preparation for what was being declared a disaster of massive proportions, I stocked up on a dozen cans of d...
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Sunday, January 25, 2026

Another person dead in Minneapolis. Here's what happened...

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Okay, I just took a look at the videos of what happened to one Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis.  Pretti being the latest person to peri...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The first trailer for Masters of the Universe promises big, dumb, and FUN!

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Hot dang!  I have  to see this when it comes out.   Masters of the Universe  looks to be the most funnest movie that I would have beheld in ...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Where Tammy and I were nine years ago...

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This photo popped up in my Facebook memories this morning and I thought it was worth sharing for its overwhelming cuteness value: This was i...
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...
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