Category: entertainment
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I just found the most amazing time-sucking web site on the internet called “If We Don’t, Remember Me,” a collection of animated scenes from classic movies. (The title of the web site is apparently a quote from a movie I’m not familiar with but will almost certainly have to find and watch now.) I linked… Read.
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shredded
Listening to Car Talk on the radio this morning, we heard the story of a guy who stuffed an athletic sock down the intake manifold of his car to avoid dropping anything down there while he was working on it and then, of course, he forgot the sock was in there and put the engine… Read.
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youth
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me. In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you. Read.
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proposal
From the Great Big Photograph Album of People Distantly Related to Me but I Don’t Know Who: I think they’re play-acting. There’s a lot of photos of people play-acting in the Great Big Photo Album Etc. Sometimes they’re obviously play-acting on a stage, but sometimes they’re standing around in a house, or on a back… Read.
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skiffy
National Public Radio asked listeners to nominate their favorite fantasy and science fiction books, whittled the list down to a couple hundred, then asked listeners to vote for their top ten favorites. The aim was to discover what people considered to be the top 100 science fiction and fantasy books of all time. I’m a… Read.
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Cowboys & Aliens
Seanster, My Darling B and I went to see Cowboys & Aliens last night. B got the tickets, Seanster got the popcorn and sodas, I got to sit back and enjoy the movie. So Heinlein was wrong. There is such a thing as a free lunch. You can expect to pay fifteen bucks for a… Read.
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scrabble
Sean is visiting this week so we took some time off from work to hang out with him. I managed to snag some vacation time today and so did Sean’s brother, Tim, but My Darling B had to work, so it was just the boys today. What did we do with our quality time together?… Read.
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whiskey
Tuning through radio stations in search of something I could stand to listen to, I came across an oldies station that was playing the kind of dance hall music that reminds me of the ending to The Shining when the camera gets closer and closer to the wall of photographs until it finally zooms in… Read.
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heinlein
Am currently re-reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by a dean of Golden-Age authors, Robert Heinlein, thanks to my youngest son who stole into the ancestral manse by dark of night to leave his copy of the book on the arm of my recliner. I couldn’t figure out where my copy got to. At… Read.
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guns
We were having a friendly conversation at work about robots and how they were the coolest thing ever. The robots in question were writing songs and painting pictures, which someone pointed out were taking away the most enjoyable pursuits of life and leaving us with … what? “I don’t care, so long as nobody gives… Read.
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