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I’ve mentioned before that Western Springs has a new garbage service that started this year. All in all, it seems to a better arrangement in general, as far as convenience of dumping stuff throughout the week into the two 65 gallon bins (1 regular, 1 recycling) in the garage. I’d say it’s a cheaper arrangementContinue reading “Fingers crossed that the two signs are legit”

The 1960’s on tv. As a little kid, it was hog heaven. It seemed like everything was an explosion of color and dynamic action. Night time stuff like Batman was great but there were a bunch of cartoons I was addicted to on Saturday mornings during the second half of the decade. It was anContinue reading “Toons in the Swingin’ ’60’s”

Trilogies are a tricky breed of movie convention. So many things can go wrong–and they have. Some creators don’t know when to stop (hello Sly, hello George) and they flew right past the three film mark. The crazy up and down quality levels of Rocky, Rambo and Star Wars could probably be a whole otherContinue reading “Is “Trilogy” Still A Dirty Word?”

You never know how you’ll react when you’re facing imminent death. I should point out that the following story is true. I have some fairly interesting stories from my past and in the course of this year, I will get to all of them. Half the time, it was me being an idiot, or drunkContinue reading “The Oncoming Traffic Heralded Death”

Sometimes, I take a look eBay for new, interesting, INEXPENSIVE Thing figures–some of which I’ve highlighted here on the blog.  But yesterday, Lin saw something in a Target sales paper. She asked if it was something I already had and taking a look, I was about to say yes, I’d picked up one of thoseContinue reading “No, no, it’s a TOY that’s plastic, 10 inches long and has a bobbly head. It’s called the Thing.”

*side note: with any of these recommendations from any era, all the individual stories are available on DVD and some of the seasons are now available on Blu-ray as well. When going to Amazon, if you go to the TV/movie section and type in Doctor Who William Hartnell, then the name of a recommended story,Continue reading “Doctor Who Recommendations- The Davison, C. Baker, McCoy, McGann eras”

The CW collection of DC superhero shows *might* be in a bit of trouble. I say this for a variety of reasons.  *First, after 8 seasons, they no longer have Arrow anchoring the “Arrowverse”. This is not really that bad but it seems a tad awkward. I’m surprised that they not only allowed Ollie toContinue reading “The CW-TV-DCU- Trouble in the Multiverse?”

By the turn of the century, Timm and his gang were revered as comic and animation gods, after giving us the best realization of Batman ever (even to this very day), a wonderful Superman and even expanding the Bat brand Beyond. The biggest surprise was still to come when it was announced that Timm wasContinue reading “The Bruce Timm Animation Family part 2”

 Back in early 1970, New Zealand had its first successful television show called “What?”. It starred a relatively unknown Japanese/Irish-American actor named Harry Finnegan (pronounced Harquort Faraday), who portrayed the breakout character, Mewley Burke. “What?” was a story about a man (Burke), his common law wife and their six daughters who move to NZ toContinue reading “R.I.P. Mewley Burke”