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Heh, funny. On the way to my job last night I reflected on how it’s been almost a year since the final season of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix. And I found myself wondering if there would ever be anything more of that franchise to enjoy. I’ve pretty much written off getting to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow, unless it gets a touring show (or a broadcast adaptation, c’mon Netflix we know you filmed material from it).

Well, today being Stranger Things Day – the anniversary of Will Byers first getting taken into the Upside Down – the Duffer Brothers let us know that they are far from done with that particular universe and indeed it looks like it’s set to grow even more.

Behold the reveal teaser for Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure…

GeekTyrant has a bit more about Other Worlds, which with its ...

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Right now at this moment I am doing something that I have not done in many years: watching Sunday morning political talk shows.

And I am shaking my head in disbelief at how little these people are actually saying.

These are partisan hacks, every single one of them, including the hosts.  They are not saying anything at all that is really enlightening or mind-broadening.  They are parroting their party’s agenda, without any legitimate thought processes at all.  There is nothing original they are speaking aloud that I have not heard before.

They are soooooo boring.

I’m reminded of an episode of The Cosby Show that I saw many years ago.  Claire is invited to go on one such Sunday morning show.  Including the hosts there is also a conservative commentator and a liberal scholar and they were PERFECTLY cast and acted.  They were total parodies of real conservatives and liberals. ...

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This is starting to make me regret that I didn’t blog all along the epic journey ten years ago.  I could have shared about so many neat places and people.  But then again it really was a time of introspection, a journey of self discovery and trying to chronicle that as it happens, well… it takes something away from the experience.  But I think I could be forgiven for sharing them now, all this time since.

These photos were taken at a store called The Candy Lady, in Albuquerque.  And they are rather famous for a certain special confection.  Because it was The Candy Lady that supplied the “Blue Sky crystal meth” during production of the television series Breaking Bad.  The good folks at the store are very proud of their connection to one of the greatest TV shows ever, there is all sorts of Breaking Bad memorabilia they
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Ten years ago this summer I packed up my car with the bare essentials and my dog Tammy and I left our hometown of Reidsville, North Carolina.  I didn’t know where we were going.  We were headed toward literally only God knew where.

We spent the better part of an entire year crossing America, looking for a new place to call home.  When we got to California I decided that we had gone as far from our old home as we could, so I spent a few months looking for work there.  That didn’t happen.

I didn’t want to go back to Reidsville a failure, but that’s pretty much what happened.  And I was there for a couple of months while I tried to figure out what my next course of action should be. That didn’t go so well.  Concerned friends came up with a plan: to let Tammy and ...

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My memoir Keeping the Tryst has been getting around some.  I confess, its biggest audience seems to be composed of people who have known me, friends and family.  It’s gotten some other purchases, though it’s far from being a “bestseller”.  Still, I’ve been happy.  And one never knows how far a book will get in the larger scheme of things.  A lot of books started out selling small but went on to bigger things.

One of the most consistent remarks that I’ve gotten about Keeping the Tryst has been about my memory.  This book covers half a century of the lifetime of an American boy, and it does so in at times almost microscopic detail.  As I said in the first chapter, I have no idea how it is that I remember some things so vividly and clearly.  It just “is”.  Sometimes I feel like Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist
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This is… I mean, just… HOLY CRAP!  This is NOT a good thing.

And it even looks like a Cylon, too.

 

That’s “Gabi”.  He… I mean, IT… is in Seoul, South Korea.  It just took vows to be a Buddhist monk at a special ordination ceremony.

Here’s the story from UPI about the Cylon Buddhist monk.

And here is video of Gabi going through the paces of being a holy droid:

 

As good friend of this blog Geoff Gentry pointed out, at least the Cylons from the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica  were monotheistic.  That is true.  But for such a construct it’s only going to be a matter of time before the leap is taken from programmed zen to actively believing in a singular God.  And when the things start assuming through their AI superiority that THEY are closer to God than frail and fallen humanity ...

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I was eleven when The Golden Girls premiered on NBC in 1985.  I was watching that very first episode and it cracked me up hard!  Most Saturday nights at 9 I would tune in to watch the latest misadventures of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia.  It wasn’t just me either: my dear sweet grandmother was a huge fan of the show too.  Sometimes we would watch it together if I happened to be at her house that night.  Her favorite of the ensemble was easily Estelle Ghetty’s character Sophia.  Heck, Granny even looked a lot like Sophia… and she could wisecrack like her too.  My favorite character was Rose (Betty White): so many ditzy things that she often said.

So for the past few weeks I’ve been tuning into MeTV on weeknights at 10 and then on Sunday nights at 6 and 8 to watch The Golden Girls.  It’s ...

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My best friend since third grade Chad has encouraged me many times over the years to start running.  Chad knows something about that, being an active runner and also the veteran of numerous full marathons and countless shorter races.  Running is how he and his wife first met, during a running ministry at their church.  So maybe it’s something I should have looked into a long time ago already.
Now, I can run very fast over short distances.  Maybe even faster than a lot of seasoned pros.  It’s just the way I’m built and it came in handy a few times when I was at the state department of mental health.  But perhaps running a mile or so a day, if that much?  Nah, that just hasn’t seemed feasible.  I have harbored doubts all this time and it didn’t seem that anything could dispel them.
But then I saw this
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Okay, maybe I’m more than a little biased.  But as long as I am on God’s green earth I will never believe that there was ever a meteorologist who was as accurate and honest and entertaining as Earl Burton.

Earl Burton was born in Reidsville, North Carolina in 1940.  Two things happened in his young life that wound up spinning him into someone legendary: his love of broadcasting, and the volumes of weather records that he began keeping as a teenager.  Eventually he came to be an announcer on WREV AM-1220 out of Reidsville.

His flair for radio and his vast knowledge of local meteorology collided one fateful afternoon when Earl was about to relay a forecast from the National Weather Service to his listeners.  He was set to read the report calling for rain when he stopped, paused for a moment, and told the audience “Folks, I think ...

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As of tonight it has been 120 hours since the series finale of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix.  And in that time the Internets have been going full-blown wacky with theories and speculations.  It’s the kind of debate and discussion that I can’t remember seeing in a very long time, at least not since the Lost finale almost sixteen years ago.

I have now watched “The Upside Down” twice all the way through and numerous bits and pieces of it since it went live on streaming.  And I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I’ve seen on the television medium in quite awhile.  But if you’ve seen it also, you’re well aware that it left a few things dangling.  Not “critical” information, but we are certainly teased a bit about what becomes of these characters who we’ve followed for almost a full decade.  The Duffer Brothers, the creators ...

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