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Something for Thursday

Today a brief suite from Elmer Bernstein’s score to the film Far From Heaven, a movie which seems to have dropped somewhat off the radar unfortunately. Bernstein died not long afterwards, following one of the great careers in film scoring. … Continue reading

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Does whatever a spider can!

One of my important weekly tasks at The Store is running our generator load test. This is when I activate our store’s generator and let it run the store’s emergency systems for a half hour or so, just to make … Continue reading

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On the Founding Fathers (a repost)

I’ve had this post on my mind the last day or so, since I’m seeing as part of the usual dialog regarding guns various appeals to what the Founding Fathers meant by their terrible wording of the Second Amendment. I’m … Continue reading

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Flowers

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Bad Joke Friday (late Sunday edition)

Oh wow. See, I had scheduled something like the last four or five BJF’s well in advance, so I assumed that I had one ready to go this past Friday…and yet, apparently I did not. I am the absolute worst. … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

(Ooops…didn’t publish. Ayup!) I have a weird relationship with country music. I actively dislike a good deal of it, and most of it makes no impression on me at all. But those songs that I like? Well, those I tend … Continue reading

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A Bonus Bad Joke

Sorry for the lack of material here of late! Just garden-variety busy-ness. Anyway, here’s a bad pun of the historical and literary variety! You have to be up on your history of famous vampires to get this one.

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Bad Joke Friday

A lycanthrope transforms in front of his friend for the first time. “Oh my god,” says his friend, “You just turned into a wolf.” “Yes,” he replies, “I am a were.”

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Something for Thursday

This movie seems rather forgotten nowadays, even though it won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. This is legendarily due to some serious politicking done by Miramix in this movie’s favor, but frankly, I’ve always liked it more than SPR, … Continue reading

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The last full measure of devotion

An annual repost. Know, all who see these lines, That this man, by his appetite for honor, By his steadfastness, By his love for his country, By his courage, Was one of the miracles of the God. — Guy Gavriel … Continue reading

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