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I should let you know that my blogroll is very fluid. I’ll add links for new bloggers, and I’ll remove links from bloggers who don’t blog any more (or their page comes back as a “404: Not Found” when I search for them). That’s why you don’t see the Lazygal or the James Edward Skye…

Hello to all of you on this glorious holiday. Just remember … one of the great things about Star Wars fandom is that the one character you hate in that movie will become, by the next movie or two, one of the most beloved characters. I give an example. Star Wars – “It’s a big…

I don’t know if you’re aware of this. But apparently this is 4/20 day. And you know what that means, don’t you? Of course you do. This is the first in about nine straight days when the date is actually a palindrome. See? 4/20/2024 spelled backwards is 4202/02/4. Mind blown. And it’ll work all the…

Good morning everybody, it looks like a decent weekend for eclipse-watching, and whether I can battle the traffic to get to my target locations – that will be the big adventure. But before I go chasing that celestial once-in-a-lifetime event … let’s see what’s going on with the wonderful people who populate my personal blogroll.…

What’s all this white stuff outside my home? Running to check the calendar … yep, supposed to be spring. Then again … I live in the Northeast, so I should expect snowstorms when I least expect them. And by typing that, I just realized that I did the same thing over 40 years ago when…

Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, where everybody drinks green beer and wears novelty T-shirts with phrases like, “I’m Irish, take me drunk, I’m home,” and “My Irish Lass is Erin Go Braghless.” Oh, that one’s a broad-minded concept. Well, that’s for tomorrow. Today, it’s Steve Austin Day. You know … the holiday that comemorates when…