Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty-One

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.” -Lemony Snickett

25 September 2009

So, this is Fall?

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Fall officially started on Tuesday. It reached 113 that day here. It was 112 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Suppose to be as warm tomorr...

Books: Star Trek: Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox

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For a number of years during the 1990's, I collected almost all of the Star Trek books that came out. 99.9% of them, I never read. They...
13 September 2009

Pirates IV gets a title; based on Tim Powers novel?

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Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook made several major announcements about upcoming Disney films during an address at the D23 Disney fan ...
10 September 2009

Books: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

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In a pitch perfect take on the family saga, Jonathan Tropper’s side-splitting This Is Where I Leave You is often funny as it is heartbreakin...
05 September 2009

Glenda Beck and the sorta-lame-ass version of what he thinks is the truth

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You know, Glenda, you're becoming more and more crazy as the days go by, now finding menace in every shadow and every relief. You’re a p...
31 August 2009

Candy Everybody Wants -Celebrity Edition

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David Henrie Zac Efron Austin Butler
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21 August 2009

Preview of The Venture Bros. Season 4

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16 August 2009

Books: Retail Hell: Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate by Freeman Hall

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This book is for anyone who works in retail. And its for anyone who shops and wonders why most retail employees hate you. Author Freeman Hal...
10 August 2009

Books: NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley

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Despite being a title for the young, Michael Buckley’s ( The Sisters Grimm ) new series is a comic treat, as fifth graders become secret age...
08 August 2009

Books: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

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The final book in the Riordan’s Percy Jackson series is action packed from page one to its conclusion. The majority of the novel takes plac...
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06 August 2009

Candy Everybody Wants

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John Hughes, writer/director and the voice of 80's teens, dies

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As a writer and director, John Hughes, who died today at the age of 59 from a heart attack, found an ability to communicate to teens in the ...
02 August 2009

Books: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth

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With penultimate volume of the Olympian saga, author Rick Riordan ramps up the suspense and action, as Percy Jackson and his friends must ba...
28 July 2009

Palin: What a crowded nation she must rule in her mind

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Sarah Palin walked out on her job over the weekend, and now plans, as she says, "with this decision, now I will be able to fight even h...
27 July 2009

Books: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

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Much like the Series of Unfortunate Events, the third book in the Percy Jackson series breaks little ground, as it follows the near same sto...
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22 July 2009

Movie: Pornography (2009)

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In some respects, writer/director David Kittredge got what he wanted with his film, Pornography ; days after the Saturday night viewing, I’m...
20 July 2009

Update

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So a quick update here: Yesterday was the 41 st anniversary of the death of my father from cancer. He would've been 74 this year, had he...
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15 July 2009

Campy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies spawns another mash-up

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In typical media fashion, as soon as a new idea hits big, sequels are always down the line. This past spring, Quirk Books - known for The Wo...
13 July 2009

Things that bother me

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Like escalators and moving walk-ways. I was a Disneyland last night, and JayTee and I are leaving the park. We get back to the parking struc...
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Mid 50's, a CSR, help make the indie film JUDAS KISS, THE DARK PLACE, and SOMETHING LIKE SUMMER, worked on the web based Hidden Frontier Productions. Makes occasional comments on pop culture that include TV, Books, Movies.
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