My resounding answer: HELL NO!!
Lately, I’ve had the impression that the world is trying to make me feel old. Is it just me?
Let me give you some examples:
Continue reading “Should I Be Feeling Old???”Should I Be Feeling Old???
The Lost Art of Editing
I warned you I might include rants on my blog. Hey, here’s one now!
Disclaimer: I’m not perfect and don’t claim to be but I do my best to publish with the least amount of errors possible.
I’m not going to mention names in this rant. I don’t want to embarrass anyone. But please, if anything I mention here gives you pause to examine your own blog or social media posts, print or online articles, self-published books, etc., then this rant will not have been in vain.
Sleepy Hollow at Muzeo
Not feeling too wordy today, so here’s a bunch of photos from the Legend: 200 Years of Sleepy Hollow at Muzeo in Anaheim, CA. Muzeo is a lovely little museum up the street from Disneyland. It’s basically a big black box that affords flexibility for each exhibit it hosts. I’ve seen Napoleon’s hat, costumes from Downton Abbey, part of Cheech Marin’s Chicano art collection, Russian icons, Buffalo soldier uniforms, spyware and rad black leather jackets, among other things. If you’re ever in the area, look them up at Muzeo.org.
Outside
Lou Diamond Phillips Weekend
It was an unplanned Lou Diamond Phillips weekend at our house recently.
Book Review * The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Book:
Linus Baker, a by the book orphanage inspector for the Big Brother-like Department in Charge of Magical Youth, embarks on a life changing journey when he’s tasked with a month-long assignment at an unusual location at the end of the rail line. Accompanied by his aloof black cat, Calliope, he finds a place both dangerous and hopeful that he’d never dared to dream of. Will he summon the strength to defend the vulnerable children of Marsyas Island and claim the many kinds of love offered him by those he has learned to hold dear?
What Do You Mean I Have To Wait??!!
OK-I admit it. I’m spoiled.
I don’t think I’ve watched a network TV series in years. Bingeing on episodic shows and platform-specific mini-series on our streaming services whenever the mood strikes created an on-demand monster.
Hulu, I’m talking to you! *Shakes fist and sticks out tongue*
Continue reading “What Do You Mean I Have To Wait??!!”Time Enough At Last, The Happy Ending
We probably all have stories, written or filmed, that had endings we hated. Maybe we also revisit them from time to time and come up with happier endings. For me, this is a pretty obvious one.
For those of you who’ve never seen Season 1, Episode 8 of the original Twilight Zone series, let me do a quick synopsis of Time Enough At Last, starring Burgess Meredith.
Here’s Henry Bemis, at his bank job.
Older and Wiser? Not Necessarily
Anybody out there feeling like a teenager again, but not in a good way?
Lately, as I near a milestone birthday, I’ve been thinking about what I want to do with the rest of my life. The phrase Older and Wiser makes me laugh because right now, I feel as untethered and generally fucked up as I did at 17.
It was the 70’s, folks!!
Pop Funko’s in Gray
Yesterday I was in Barnes and Noble, looking for a Pop Funko figure of Evie the Librarian from The Mummy movie that I could use as a prop in book photos. Second only to Bunny Watson (Katherine Hepburn’s character in The Desk Set, who, sadly, has no Pop Funko of her own), Evie is my favorite fictional librarian. I figured it was a long shot, since her figure only seems to be on the secondary market at this point but I was hoping for the miraculous appearance of a mysteriously overlooked Evie in the back corner of a shelf. But, nope, so the secondary market it is.
Continue reading “Pop Funko’s in Gray”Gray Mare’s Top 30 Cozy Mystery Series
I like variety in my reading and one of my favorite genre’s is cozy mysteries.
There’s plenty of variety in cozies, but they have a few commonalities. They usually take place in small towns or city neighborhoods and the main character is an amateur sleuth. With very few stand alones, they’re usually done as series.
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