Monthly Archives: October 2011

Space Ballpoints!

The Fisher Space Pen: it writes in Zero gravity, upside down, underwater, through oil. US Astronauts used one on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. Despite the packaging, I don’t think any ever traveled to the moon. They were made after that had … Continue reading

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I’ve Never Met an Ugly Horse, Part II

The Black Stallion Returns is a completely different movie from the first one. Instead of taking place on a desert island, or a New York farm, it takes place in the desert, far outside of Casablanca. Instead of being about … Continue reading

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I’ve Never Met An Ugly Horse

I love horse snouts. They make me smile. You got the big nostrils. The lips with patchy whiskers. Warm and squishy, but also firm and dexterous. They make the horse look older, maybe wiser too. In The Black Stallion, the … Continue reading

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Occupy Tomatoes

My wife’s mom makes a garden every year. Though she lives over 500 miles away, we still accumulate more butternut squash than you can shake a salt shaker at. And turnips turn up on our doorstep quite frequently. Mmmmmmm, so … Continue reading

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Shrinky Dinks and Me

There’s a lot going on in Shrink. You definitely get your money’s worth. There’s more acting and characters and plots and stuff in these two hours than you usually get in 3 movies. It sort of makes Hollywood feel like … Continue reading

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I Hate Depression

So some new MRI study says that depressive folks feel hate differently than other folks. And then somehow they end up saying that depressive folks feel more hate for themselves than other folks do. As I’ve gotten older, I have … Continue reading

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Spooner is as Spooner Does

I think that they really blew an important opportunity when they made the theatrical Scooby-Doo movies. If they hadn’t broken all the Scoobe rules, it could have been great. Because Matthew Lillard was spot-on-perfect as Shaggy. So there’s a bunch … Continue reading

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Comfort Food Poisoning

There’s been a lot of food poisoning going on lately. Listeria in the cantelopes and lettuce. Salmonella turkey surprise. Sometimes I wonder: are they purposely poisoning all the fresh produce so we’ll flock to processed foods for safety? Recently I … Continue reading

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One Man Shoe

One man stage shows. Gotta love ’em. Will Rogers was played by James Whitmore. Mark Twain was played by Hal Holbrook. Groucho Marx was Gabe Kaplan’s shtick. And Charles Nelson Reilly played himself in Save it for the Stage: The … Continue reading

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