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Something for Thursday

Oops…a tad late to the party, but hey, it’s still Thursday! So here’s some swashbuckling movie music. I’ve waxed poetic about Erich Wolfgang Korngold in this space before, and specifically about my favorite Errol Flynn movie of all time (and … Continue reading

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Roger wrote an interesting post the other day about the process by which he and his wife arrived at their daughter’s name (“Lydia”, which is, by the way, a perfectly lovely name). A taste: *No naming after any family member, … Continue reading

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“This never-ending road to Calvary….” (Thoughts on Les Miserables)

It all comes back to Star Wars, doesn’t it? Even Les Miserables. What am I talking about? Well, back when The Phantom Menace came out, and initial reaction was somewhat mixed (before ossifying into outright hatred), I remember an article … Continue reading

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From the “Stolen from Facebook” department

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Sentential Links

Let’s just keep saving the world, folks, one link at a time…. :: I can believe gullibility, I can believe catfishing, I can believe that some people are really good liars and willing to take advantage of people…but I have … Continue reading

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Saturday Centus (Sunday edition)

I’m a day late with this week’s prompt, not because I was busy or because I forgot, but because this prompt is so evocative to me, on a personal level, that I had to think about it for quite a … Continue reading

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Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome

Oddities and Awesome abound! ::  Jason Bennion posted this pic on Facebook. It’s the TV Guide cover from when Battlestar Galactica was set to premier, back in fall of 1978. Pretty cool stuff, although…well, I’ll give the geeks out there in the … Continue reading

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Film Quote Friday: “Sneakers”

COSMO: You could have shared this with me. MARTIN: I know. COSMO: You could have had the power. MARTIN: I don’t want it. COSMO: Don’t you know the places we can go with this? MARTIN: Yeah, I do. There’s nobody … Continue reading

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Darth Abrams?

According to a number of media reports, JJ Abrams is directing the first Star Wars movie of the Disney era. I’m mostly fine with this — of all my myriad problems with Star Trek 2009, none of them were in the … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Sticking with a recent flare-up of a longtime obsession of mine, the music of the Russian Romantic and post-Romantic composers, here is the Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This piece is in five short movements, and constitutes something of a … Continue reading

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