Category: Movies
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, October 20, 2023, or: A Quick Life Update
Midday, Friday, October 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there! Welcome to another Friday edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s a warm autumn day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature is 80°F/26°C under sunny conditions. We’re still experiencing chilly morning temperatures after the passage of a strong…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, October 19, 2023, or: A Quick Look at My Current TBW List
Late Morning, Thursday, October 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s a cool autumn day here in Florida. Currently, the temperature outside is 75°F/24°C under sunny skies. If the forecast for today holds true, it should be an enjoyable day – skies are expected to be mostly sunny, and the high will be 83°F/28°C. There’s…
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Tempus Fugit: Yesterday Was My Mom’s 95th Birthday….
Yesterday was my mother’s 95th birthday. She, of course, is no longer here. She died in the early morning of Sunday, July 19, 2015, after a five-year struggle with dementia and the effects of a long and eventually failed recovery from an operation to repair her spine. I do my best not to dwell on…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Getting Back in the Swing of Things – and Some Ideas for the Cover Art
Late Morning, Wednesday, October 11, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, Constant Readers. I hope you’re having a good Wednesday – or, if you’re on the other side of the International Date Line, Thursday – and the second Hump Day of October 2023. I don’t know how “good” my Wednesday is going to be; I woke…
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Songs in Minor Keys (A Haiku)
Clefs, notes, and stanzasMelancholic melodies;How still the day seems!
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On Writing & Storytelling: Music that Inspires Me While I’m Working on ‘Reunion: Coda’
Late Morning, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi all. As you know, I love listening to music when I write. It doesn’t matter what I’m writing; it could be a blog post such as the one you’re reading now, or a first draft of a screenplay, or a prose story, but unless I have…
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On Books & Reading: My Much Delayed Update of My TBR Pile
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in Books, Creative Writing, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, James D. Hornfischer, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Peter Caddick-Adams, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Kick-Ass Writer (Chuck Wendig), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960Late Morning, Tuesday, September 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. It’s another warm early fall day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I begin this, my 366th post for 2023 and 1,265th overall since I started A Certain Point of View, Too in March 2020, the temperature outside is 80°F/27°C under mostly cloudy conditions.…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, September 18, 2023: Weekend Wrap-Up, and Resuming My Writer’s Journey
Late Morning, Monday, September 18, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. It’s the beginning of the third workweek in September 2023, and even though we are 18 days into meteorological fall (and five days away from traditional or astronomical fall), it still feels like summer in the Tampa Bay area. Right now (9 AM) the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, September 17, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
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in A Bridge Too Far (1977 film), Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Autumn in Florida, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Star Trek, Star Trek: Picard – Season TwoLate Morning/Midday, Sunday, September 17, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Here in my corner of the Tampa Bay area it is – as I begin this post – late Sunday morning. Even though it’s not quite noon, the temperature outside is still a scorching 86°F/30°C under sunny conditions. With the wind blowing from the southwest…
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