Almost Equal Sequels Part XIX: War of the Colossal Beast 

Ah, the 1950s!  The true glory days of the hard scrabble slightly financed sci-fi extravaganzas! Giant bugs and atomic beasts! Flying saucers and underwater creatures! Infinitesimal amounts of money were spent on a huge catalog of films that were unleashed onto the unwitting public.  There were great posters, intriguing titles, and the promise of something unique and entertaining.  And mothers across the …

Did Mary Know About LEDs, Multiple Scrooges, and Neil Diamond?

Now that we are past being up to our sleigh bells as yet another Christmas holiday season fades into the distance, I thought it would be a wonderful time for quiet reflection.  Earlier today for instance, I simply stopped what I was doing.  I took a deep breath of the crisp winter air.   The whistling wind …

How We All Can Lick Hatred, COVID, and Everything

As we head into another year of these unprecedented, unusual, trying, uncertain, challenging, extraordinary, difficult, hard, and tough times in this virus-laden world, many have tried to assign blame on others for how we ended up in these circumstances.  “It’s Trump’s/China’s/the Democrats’/the Republicans’/the governors’/Fauci’s/George Soros’/the CDC’s/Bill Gates’/Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s/O.J. Simpson’s/(insert other name here)’s fault!”  The …

The 25 Or However Many Days of 007 DAY 12: You Only Live And Let Die Twice Another Day

Well, here we are: the sort of halfway point in this mad quest to write something relatively new every single day about every single Bond movie in order from worst to best.  I know many have given up their lives in order for me to reach this point.  I have no idea why they would do something …