Sunday, July 20, 2025

GUTTED: my surgical journey to hell (and mostly back)

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  I’ve been reluctant to write in any detail about the medical “issues” I have endured over the past 6 months or so (actually, it goes back ...

Mushmouthed English: Why does everyone sound like Sean Connery now?

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  Why can’t anyone talk anymore? Am I being such a grammatical fussbudget? Not if I hear the language twisted into a corkscrew every day. Fi...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Today, all I want to do is watch 7 hours of drive-in intermission shorts!

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Oh yes! Escapism at its finest. Given my medical status (THREE appointments with specialists in the next few months, not to mention multiple...
Friday, July 11, 2025

BETRAYED: A Story of Religious Abuse

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This little clip from YouTube claims to be a story of fraud, betrayal and abuse of power. And ironically, it turned out that way after all. ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Bless him! Damn him! It's Elmer Gantry

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Though this started off paranthetical, I want to devote a whole post to yet another movie I re-watched for the first time in at least 30 ye...
Monday, July 7, 2025

When a good movie turns bad: how many times is this going to happen?

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Having come out the other side of The Roosevelts and Taxi  Driver, I'm finding most of my movie nostalgia trips are disappointing. I f...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

So why did I watch Taxi Driver - again??

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A little Italian let’s praise today: The Topo Gigio of pictures, let’s say. When Taxi Driver comes on TV, I always drop what I’m doing, you ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

THE ROOSEVELTS: Twelve years on, did the series change, or did I?

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  After hugely enjoying the first few episodes, I did finally watch the end of the 2013 PBS series, The Roosevelts, and oh it was hard goin...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Why you should NOT overshare on the internet. . .

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Friends: On the eve of my 62nd birthday, something of a re-birth announcement... The mania I've been experiencing for the past few weeks...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

I never thought I'd see this again!!

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  The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Click on the link to watch!) I was astonished and deeee -lighted to find this entire series on Intern...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

So why is this statement so subversive?

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An artist, a man, a failure, MUST PROCEED. Proceed: not succeed. With success, as any world or unworld comprehends it, he has essentially no...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Go get 'em, Teddy! (Read at your own risk!)

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  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, on Americans: “As for my own country, it is hard to say. We are barbarians of a c...