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Mar.31.2012
photo: Noomi Rapace, about to terrify. From rogerebert.com.
Overall this second film of the series was better than the very good first film, which makes sense, as the second novel in the series was superior to the first. I suspect that the American version of the second...
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Mar.28.2012
Feeling wonderful today. Rain ended before noon, and the day was sunny and warmer. I feel great!
Son Jason came by in the early afternoon. We played for him a wonderful "video essay" on the subject of MAD MEN. Jason has never gotten into the convoluted magic of that...
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Mar.25.2012
My father and my godfather, best friends from childhood who died within weeks of each other last year, were mad men who weren’t wild about “Mad Men.” They had watched the AMC-network phenomenon about 1960s-era ad executives – an adulterous, amoral, hard-drinking lot in the TV drama – and could not...
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Mar.24.2012
Rained all day, now turning cold.
Bud E. Pup has come to stay with us again. His leg seems to be healing nicely.
Looking forward to MAD MEN Season Premiere, tomorrow.
Son Guy did a magnificent job of cleaning the kitchen and bathroom, and I am soon...
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Mar.24.2012
photo: Poster, from the movie's Wikipedia page
I wanted to see the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director, and I knew I had to see it fast before it left the theatre, as this is in the theatre now only because of its Oscar wins. I can't comment...
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Mar.23.2012
Bud E. Pup seemed to have taken over our lives, sleeping under my couch, sleeping cuddled up with Son Guy, last night. This afternoon, following a couple of runs out, he was returned to his mistress, who generously rewarded us with a couple of roast beef sandwiches and accompanying snacks....
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Sep.19.2011
I'm a sucker for good drama.
No, not the daily drama of middle school and teens, but a well crafted movie or tv drama.
When I was living on my own for the first time, I got pretty lonely on Saturday nights (during one of those dating dry spells.) On night, bored with reading and listening to my...
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Jan.21.2011
by JT Ellison
Shalimar.
Quick. What's that make you think of? Can you smell it?
Shalimar on cold fur, whispering against my mother’s skin as she came to tuck me in after an evening out at a fancy ball.
Shalimar means Temple of Love in Sanskrit. And really, isn’t that why we use perfume and cologne...
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Dec.30.2010
Quite the haul this Christmas, the fat guy with the biker beard doing me a great service by leaving some wonderful books and DVD's under my Christmas tree.
As I've written previously, in 2011 I'm taking the "100 Book Challenge". Happy to report I received three or four tomes this...
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Dec.20.2010
My focus, of course, has been on the relationship between daytime soaps and primetime scripted dramas – hence the title of my essay for Survival… – “The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas”. So, it’s no surprise that as my daytime soap viewership came...
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