Author: Alex Diaz-Granados
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Book Review: ‘ The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film’
Blogger’s Note: This review is a slightly revised version of one that I wrote for the Blogger-based A Certain Point of View in 2018. On April 24, 2007, Del Rey Books – an imprint of the Penguin Random House publishing empire – published a nearly 400-page hardcover edition of The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, March 4, 2021, or: Look What Amazon Prime Left at My Doorstep!
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon on Thursday, March 4, 2021, and it’s a nice late winter day here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 73˚F (23˚C) under sunny skies, but with the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 7 MPH (12 KM/H) and humidity at 50%, the feels-like temperature is 72˚F…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, March 3, 2021, or: Why I’m Not Looking Forward to Friday
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. It’s a mild late winter day by Florida standards; the temperature is 71˚F (22˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 68% and the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 11 MPH (19 KM/H), the feels-like factor is 71˚F…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, March 2, 2021, or: ‘Indiana Jones’ Comes to 4K UHD Blu-ray in 2021….But WHEN?!?!?
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s a hot mid-afternoon in New Hometown, Florida on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Currently, the temperature is 85˚F (29˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 61% and the wind blowing from the west at 11 MPH (17 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 88˚F (31˚C). Today’s forecast calls for a high…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, March 1, 2021, or: Another Chapter in the Never-Ending Saga of the Sleep-Deprived Writer
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Monday, March 1, 2021. It’s a mildly warm if perhaps grey-tinted day; the temperature is 82˚F (28˚C) under cloudy skies. With humidity at 71% and the wind blowing from the southwest at 12 MPH (19 KM/H). the feels-like temperature is 85˚F (29˚C). The…
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On Music: My Top 10 John Williams ‘Star Wars’ Themes
I have been a fan of John Williams’ symphonic scores ever since I saw the original Star Wars – aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – in the autumn of 1977[1] For me, Williams’ swashbuckling, neo-Romantic themes and action cues sold the rest of George Lucas’s out-of-this-world space-fantasy about “a boy, a girl,…
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On Books: Examining ‘Shattered Sword’ and ‘The Battle of Midway’
Ever since I read a young reader’s edition of a book about the Battle of Midway (June 4-7, 1942) when I was a fourth grade student at Tropical Elementary School in the early 1970s, I have been fascinated by this pivotal chapter in world history. It is a story that is full of drama and…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, February 26, 2021, or: The Saga of the Involuntary Early Riser Continues
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning in New Hometown, Florida on Friday, February 26, 2021. Currently, the temperature is 67˚F (20˚C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-southeast at 3 MPH (5 KM/H) and humidity at 75%, the feels-like temperature is 64˚F (18˚C). Today, our area can expect partly sunny skies…
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Old Gamers Never Die: Winning My First Campaign in ‘Cold Waters’
Well, Dear Reader, I did it. I successfully completed a Campaign game in Killerfish Games’ 2017 submarine combat simulation, Cold Waters. And not only did I complete the Campaign – which has a default skill-level setting of Hard and balances out the American Navy’s advanced submarines vis a vis the submarines fielded by the People’s…
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‘Cold Waters’ Campaign Update: The War Heats Up in the South China Sea as USS Hampton Enters Fray
Hello again, Dear Reader, and welcome to another post in A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. The current temperature is 71˚F (23˚C) under partly sunny skies; with the wind blowing from the east-southeast at 4 MPH (6 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is…
