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This guy. This f---ing guy. 27 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
Smallville’s Michael Rosenbaum as the best Lex Luthor ever. Unfortunately, Rosenbaum won’t be playing Lex in the announced sequel to Man of Steel, Superman vs. Batman. After all I wrote about Man of ...
Hundred dollar pie 25 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
The blonde's famous peach blueberry pie, fresh out of the oven. The last one she made sold for $100 at a charity auction. This one's not for sale, worthy cause or no worthy cause, not even for a hundr...
Please help fill the Mannionmobile's tank and send a blogger back to school 24 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Ken Mannion would like to express his gratitude to those of you who chipped in to pay his karate dues yesterday. His karate lessons and his friends at his dojo mean the world to him, so you can imagin...
Elmore Leonard 24 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
One-eyed blogging I'm a whiz at. One-eyed reading's trickier. I haven't been able to go back through my Elmore Leonard novels to find the passages I need to write the kind of tribute post I'd like to ...
One-eyed blogging 23 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
I thought shingles were supposed to hurt. My back and hip are still giving me the yips, but I’ve been doing my exercises and trying to keep moving. Some days are better than others and Monday was one...
Richie Havens returns to Woodstock 23 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
Richie Havens performing in Hamburg, Germany in 1972. Photo courtesy of Heinrich Klaffs via Wikipedia. Havens died back in April. This happened this past Sunday. From Monday’s Times Herald-Record...
Running on fumes 22 Aug 2013 | 02:13 pm
I'm sorry to ask again, but Summer's ending as rough as it started. I start teaching again on Tuesday so things should be better in a couple of weeks. But it's going to be tricky until then. Lots of b...
Bill Murray’s Broad Shoulders: A review of Hyde Park on Hudson 22 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
"If you run into troubles, bring them to me; my shoulders are broad." Bill Murray craftily suggesting the crippled President, Franklin Roosevelt, who seems to be at his jauntiest when he's shoulderin...
Gratefully saving the Post Office 19 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
I think I'm all caught up with my thank you notes. The last of them are going out in the mail Monday morning. If I promised you a note or a post card and you don't get it by Friday, it's probably th...
A Man Alone: A review of 42 – The Jackie Robinson Story 18 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
I once asked Pop Mannion, a Dodger fan since he was a kid, his affections and loyalty having gone West wit' dem Bums to L.A., if he remembered if it took fans a while to warm up to Jackie Robinson. P...
