Month: August 2020
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Reader’s Corner: Coming Soon to My TBR Pile
Hi, there, and welcome to another look at my ever-growing “To Be Read” (TBR) pile of books. It’s early morning on Monday, August 31, and even though I should be sleeping, my old adversary insomnia has come to pay me a visit. I’m probably going to be tired and irritable later in the day, but…
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I Write the Songs…Sorta. Or: Look, Ma, I Did a Parody!
So my friend Juan Carlos Hernandez, the actor-director-producer who gave me my first breaks as a bona fide screenwriter, texted me the other day to tell me about a project that he and his wife, actress-producer Adria K. Woomer-Hernandez, are currently working on. “We’re doing a musical comedy revue about the COVID-19 pandemic that we…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, August 29, 2020, or: The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on a Middle-Aged Writer
Hello, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. In my corner of Florida, it’s already midafternoon on this, the last Saturday of August 2020. Currently, the temperature is 90˚F (32˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 70% and a southwesterly breeze of 8 MPH, the “feels-like”…
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What’s on My TBR List? Reading List for August 2020
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx Well, it’s August 28, 2020, and the eighth month of perhaps the weirdest year in recent memory is receding swiftly into the proverbial rear-view mirror of our lives. As political divisions,…
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‘Star Wars’ Collectibles & Toys Review: Hasbro Star Wars The Black Series Luke Skywalker (Snowspeeder) (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Figure)
LUKE SKYWALKER (SNOWSPEEDER): During the Battle of Hoth, Luke Skywalker piloted a Snowspeeder and led the Rebel Alliance against the Empire’s ground forces. – Action figure description blurb on the Hasbro Luke Skywalker (Snowspeeder) product page Earlier this week, I treated myself to one of the pricier items in Hasbro’s Star Wars The Black Series…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in my corner of Florida, and I’m still a bit tired from my bout of insomnia from the night of August 24/25, 2020. Right now it’s hot and muggy outside; the temperature is 85˚F, but with humidity at a whopping 83% and a 5 MPH land breeze…
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Old Gamers Never Die: An Unexpected Victory in ‘Cold Waters’
Well, I finally beat one of Cold Waters’ tougher battles, an almost-straight-out-of-a-Tom Clancy-novel engagement titled Beating the Odds, which pits a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered fast attack boat against a Soviet surface action group supported by Soviet Naval Aviation patrol planes and – sometimes – submarines. In the month-and-a-half that I’ve been playing what Killerfish Games calls…
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‘Star Wars’ Collectibles & Toys Review: Hasbro Star Wars The Black Series Rebel Soldier (Hoth) (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary Figure)
REBEL SOLDIER (HOTH): After the battle of Yavin, the rebels fled from the Imperial Starfleet, seeking a new main base of operations. They settled on the frozen Outer Rim world of Hoth. – Hasbro character description blurb On June 1, Hasbro introduced a wave of Star Wars The Black Series 6-inch scale action figures based…
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Confessions of a ‘Star Wars’ Collector: Temptation Strikes Again!
A day after splurging on my Star Wars The Black Series Snowspeeder with Dak Ralter (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary) collectible, temptation once again gets the best of me! This time around, I caved to the lure of the Dark Side – or the endorphin high from finding (and buying) a new…
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Confessions of a ‘Star Wars’ Collector: Giving in to My Inner Kid
Well, Dear Reader, I did it. I gave in to the inner teenager that resides inside this very middle-aged screenwriter/blogger/commentator and film reviewer and just did it. I just went to Amazon and ordered one of the priciest Star Wars collectibles I’ve ever bought: Hasbro’s new Star Wars The Black Series Snowspeeder with Dak Ralter…
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