Monthly Archives: March 2015

Super-belated birthday wish to Nelson

Nelson has been an awesome friend of mine since 1991, I just rudely never saw him that way until 1993 because he’s a tenacious dude! OK, I think the verb is appreciate. Either way, he celebrated last Saturday with Pi Day … Continue reading

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Another reason why I left Illinois

Springfield, IL (my former hometown as a kid) made the news in a bad way but at least it wasn’t for a race riot. As you can see above, that’s the current mayor who was also mayor when I lived … Continue reading

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Happy birthday Brian

Another little celebration in California with the better weather in store for him. Hopefully the food matches. As always for me, his card will be late yet I don’t think he counts on me too much there. According to his … Continue reading

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Forsooth! I can’t wait for this to arrive!

I was born 30 years too late, then again, if I were 16 I wouldn’t have had a chance in hell in affording this stuff. Somara gave me her vote as per the Maggi Republic with expensive things so I … Continue reading

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Farewell Sam Simon

He was most famous for being the silent member of The Simpsons triumvirate when the little-cartoon-that-could became its own show on Fox. However there was much more to Sam and his career. Originally he began in animation with Filmation working on Fat … Continue reading

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Adam Ant & Grace Jones for Honda!

Man how I loved this commercial in high school! It was one of my favorite New Wave singers plugging something on network television! Grace Jones I didn’t mind but she had more of a reputation for being “crazy” acting on … Continue reading

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Doc and I re-united!

I had begun to give up on my friend Doc as 2014 was winding down as the Christmas card I sent to him, Masami and Nicholas (I’m calling him Baby Doc due to all the Nick’s in my family) bounced … Continue reading

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The annual health screening and exercise comeback

The results came in and they were ugly. I think I also forgot to do a screening in 2014. Either way, I fell off the wagon. My weight is back up alongside my cholesterol. On the upside, my glucose (aka, the … Continue reading

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RIP: Harve Bennett

Right after the death of Leonard Nimoy the man who co-saved Star Trek‘s viability for future movies and TV shows passed away. Harve Bennett was a veteran of television shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Salvage I. After the first Star Trek movie’s … Continue reading

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Jupiter Ascending: Worth Seeing

The Wachowskis’ latest outing is a space opera which was probably already dead on arrival due to critics and their sycophants making up their mind in advance; plus the movie being re-scheduled from last Summer didn’t help. In short, Warner Brothers should’ve … Continue reading

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Icepocalypse 2015 was a bust

Sure, sure, sure, all you people living up north had your fun at our expense over our overreaction to the freezing rain that proved to be negligible. However, AISD taking the lead to go with a delayed opening of noon … Continue reading

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Welcome Wesley!

The new son of my co-worker and great guy all around since I was in training with him 14 years ago, Troy! Oh Wesley is a sweet little kid there. I think he’s trying to bend me to his will … Continue reading

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A rather impressive way to announce something

From my co-worker and friend Aaron Kirk. Definitely putting his incredible film knowledge and editing prowess to use!

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Another good use of a cliche

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Kingsman: Worth Seeing

An odd risk taken by Hollywood because R-rated movies tend to fail financially but I guess the bean counters took a chance due to this being handled by the guy behind Kick Ass, Layer Cake and some other hyper-violent flicks. I liked it since … Continue reading

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