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Lovably Bad Kids’ TV On-The-Cheap: Mr. Dressup!
TODAY’S DUBIOUS HONOREE: MR. DRESSUP (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1967-1996) GUILTY OF VEHICULAR FANSLAUGHTER: Ernie Coombs (Canada’s answer to Mr. Rogers … only a lot more caffeinated and likely to bounce off the cardboard walls) RUDIMENTARY ANALYSIS: Nothing touches the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for producing…
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Transformation and Plus ca Change …
METAMORPHOSES Apuleius (translation by E.J. Kenney*) Penguin Classics Edition Though I tend to eschew the once noble and now tragically democratized art of “professional” book reviewing, the occasional exception is made for some vaunted pillar of the past that gleams…
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Ixnay On The Ornshay and Sheet
What the hell is with the exponentially slavering obsession with bestowing bigger, badder, freakier Baphomet-style horns on every freaking fantasy/horror creature or character in today’s already horn-glutted entertainment culture? I’m barely recovered from years of seeing wraith-waisted Angelina Jolie’s ginormous…
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My Book Merch? Arsenic and Old Lace!
Not really. But Esquire magazine has favored us with a fascinating look at the burgeoning world of “book merch.” “What,” you ask, “is book merch?” It’s a LIFESTYLE! It’s an EXPERIENCE! It’s a Personalized BEER COZY! It’s a bag of…
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Overkill—Dreadlocked Alien Style
Meh. I never followed any of the developing lore that surrounded these sci-fi icons and never watched any of the approximately 7M movie sequels. That’s probably because the original Predator film with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, et al.…
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Shoplifting Judy
Some old guy in his 70s allegedly stole the famed ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in MGM’s 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. Apparently, he snatched them right out of the Judy Garland Museum in her hometown of Grand…
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Sweet Camel Spider Memories of Yore
Most Western people who know anything about the spooky-looking arthropods known as “camel spiders” (species name: solifugidae) learned what they know around the time of the war in Afghanistan, when soldiers encountered these desert-dwelling denizens and then shared video footage…
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Sobek Vs. Nekhbet
Nekhbet loses. [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book of hundreds of witty, cynical, zeitgeist-rocking, and knee-slappingly clever cartoons of Pure Smartassery in 2024! Stay tuned for developing news and previews.] ———————- #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #Wistwood #JonathanKieranTheAuthor…
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Well Of Course Sharks Love Cape Cod
Even THEY know the chowder’s great there. So long as there are enough people in the water, that is. [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book of hundreds of witty, cynical, zeitgeist-rocking, and knee-slappingly clever cartoons of Pure Smartassery…
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🎶I Wanna Be a UFO Whistleblower🎶
Not really. That would increase the likelihood that I had, at one time, been anally probed by aliens with a whistleblower, probably one of those freaky, long whoopee-ZOOT whistle devices used by the Three Stooges in their old movies (the…
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