93 days ago by Spiderbees for the win

Norman Borlaug is dead. He's gone. But he's on my petri dish. In my heart! He lives on as part of my research! If you're going to experiment, experiment on the heavens. Even if it's my own academic obscurity I'm researching, I keep going. Once I've studied my way through, that means I've won. Who th ...

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106 days ago by Juvenio L. Guerra

“It was a job, and I was just doing my job.” - Johnny Ramone It’s been five years since Johnny Ramone died and I’ve yet to go to one of the tributes. Really hoping I can make it to this year’s tribute (October 3rd)… if only to watch an old Ramones concert and a 3D film at the Hollywood Forever Cemet ...

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107 days ago by Juvenio L. Guerra

“Of all the 14 karat saps… starting out on a caper with a woman and a dog.” -Roy “Mad Dog” Earle High Sierra i s without a doubt one of Humphrey Bogart’ s mo st underrated film s, and one of my top three favorite Bogart film s along with In A Lonely Place and The Big Sleep. Thi s film al so feature ...

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152 days ago by Uncle Crappy

When I was a kid, my family’s evening routine was pretty simple. It revolved around two things: dinner and the CBS Evening News. My folks were pretty strict about television and the dinner table — generally the rule was once the food was ready, the TV had to be turned off. But once my sister and me ...

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159 days ago by Stephen Schleicher

It Begins… There has been plenty of lead up to the much hyped Blackest Night series, as the Green Lantern titles have unveiled nearly all of the Corps involved in the event. Green Lantern #43 gets the Prologue banner treatment, and is a great lead in to the mega-event. In a lot of comics, when the b ...

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162 days ago by Uncle Crappy

I didn’t watch a second of the Michael Jackson service today. I haven’t said anything here about what I think about the biggest pop musician of my lifetime, the one who shaped what my contemporaries listened to while we grew up. Back then, I was chasing a different kind of musical buzz, and Mike’s s ...

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163 days ago by jrsuicide

Steve McNair's greatest moment came in a loss in the Super Bowl on the final drive as he escapes both Rams' defensive ends, breaks a tackle and fires a bullet to Kevin Dyson. and in Spanish no less.... the very next play the Titans came up inches short of completing the greatest game winning drive i ...

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181 days ago by James Baker

I am watching, not without some sadness, George Carlin's final HBO special, It's Bad For Ya!. Carlin has been a regular, welcome presence in my life, from my youngest smuggled cassettes to this latest special. Of all the great entertainers I've been committed to - Watterson, Thompson, Hicks, Pink Fl ...

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195 days ago by jrsuicide

David Carradine was found dead today in his Bangkok hotel room...apparently from hanging himself, once again proving that if i liked you a lot (Kurt Cobain, Hunter S. Thompson, Elliott Smith, Cleopatra, etc...) then you are probably killing yourself. Carradine is of course most famous for his role o ...

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239 days ago by Jei

So, my birthday? Preeetty awesome. I invited all these dead folks to come party with me, and a whole bunch of 'em did! M'self, I channeled the spirit of Nikola Tesla, of course. I would tell you all about it, except Madame Curie wrote a snazzy account of that night herself. Yeah, I totes had a fave ...

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