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  1. Benzadmiral

    The Resistol Roundup

    As I recall reading here, the "Byer-Rolnick" name disappeared in 1968, so yours has to be from '68 or earlier. You can stretch a hat perhaps 1 size, I understand, and have done it for myself, from 6 7/8 to my usual size 7. Beyond that, natural the felt may be, but it has its limits! You could...
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    What are you Writing?

    I've always pictured myself as a paperback author, Mike. After all, people like John D. MacDonald rose from that "ghetto" to become respected hardback and bestselling authors. My advantages are that I have several completed manuscripts with solid stories; I'm that rare bird who is good at...
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    What Are You Reading

    I've also swept through his memoir A Drinking Life and his first novel, a short piece based on his trip home from the Navy at Christmas in 1952, The Gift. His writing is irresistible.
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    What Are You Reading

    Re-reading for the first time since then Seventies Philip Jose Farmer's SF classic Riverworld, specifically the first two novels in his series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. It opens with Sir Richard Francis Burton (the 19th century British explorer, not Liz Taylor's...
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    What Are You Reading

    It is a dreary sort of book, but only because it's about a dreary world. You're right about how elements of it are common parlance now. As I've read elsewhere on the 'Net, "1984 was supposed to be a warning and cautionary tale, not a how-to handbook!"
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The End Game," the final Season One episode of The Fugitive from spring 1964. Exciting, as almost all the episodes featuring Barry Morse's Lt. Gerard have been. Here, Gerard is spearheading the Kimble manhunt in a small city, and soon Kimble is trapped within an 8-square-block area while...
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    Barbershops

    We still have a few locations that look like the old-time barbershops. There's one on Magazine Street in the Uptown section, a couple on the West Bank, etc.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Jack Black does that, and startles me every time I see him. You think he's just going to play a stocky doofus, and then . . . somehow, his character winds up being recognizably (rather than just comically) human. See his musician/teacher in School of Rock and his Carl Denham in the 2005 King...
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    What Are You Reading

    I enjoyed it even more than I did North River. That one, as you and/or Lizzie said, would have made a good Warners film with Jimmy Cagney and Loretta Young. But to me it suffered from the lack of * big * conflict. That would have been okay if it had been all about the characters in the...
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    What are you Writing?

    Dreamed a new story idea last night. The essential idea, the germination of the events, was from the dream. When I woke, I lay there and muscled the idea around a little, and before long I had something. Need to clear some deck space, and I can work on it.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    My all-time favorite was the opener to Season Two, "Five Minutes to Doom." The story showcases Clark as a reporter, and Superman as the only hope a wrongly-convicted criminal has of escaping execution. The image of Superman bursting through the prison wall literally in the shadow of the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Three dynamite episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel from Season Two. "Maggie O'Bannion" showcases Paladin as an all-around man, fighter, charmer, and strategist. Bushwhacked on the trail by an unscrupulous ranch foreman and robbed of his clothes, horse, and guns, Paladin shows up at the ranch...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    When I re-watched Them! as a more-or-less adult, I was struck by the police-procedural flavor of it -- as if the writers had intentionally melded Dragnet with science fiction. It works. The leads are smart; they consult an actual myrmecologist, and the team extrapolates from small ant behavior...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    One of my favorite Dorothy Parker stories, probably apocryphal, concerns a supposed feud between Luce and Parker. At a party, they both arrived at a doorway at the same moment. According to lore, Luce gestures to Dorothy: "Age before beauty." Mrs. Parker walks through and says, "Pearls...
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    Old gas stations

    That's the model my father had, except his had no fender skirts, and was red with a white top. Though I don't recall the wheels being wire-style, or chromed. Ron Howard's character drives a white or baby-blue Impala, I think, in American Graffiti. The film is set in '62, so a '58 would have...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Homecoming," a late Season One entry for The Fugitive. Kimble is working for a modern-day (1964) Southern plantation owner (Richard Carlson), a good guy who has recently remarried -- to a local girl who grew up dirt-poor (Gloria Grahame). She, for reasons not well explained, wants to...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "The Hanging of Roy Carter," a Season Two episode of Have Gun - Will Travel. One of the most suspenseful stories I've seen on this show. Paladin is tasked with delaying the hanging of an innocent man for 3 hours, until the governor's pardon arrives. But the warden is an old enemy of the...
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    The Man From UNCLE movie

    I've always wondered who would do the maintenance and repair on the Black Beauty. Perhaps Britt Reid has a full-time mechanic/body shop tech on staff? And the Batmobile, too, though I seem to recall an Animated Series episode focusing on the guy that Bruce took the Batmobile to for all its work.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Worf is, as always, succinct. Well, I may tape it and watch it in two parts.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    This Saturday night and again on Sunday morning, my local PBS outlet is showing Raintree County w/ Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. Rod Taylor is in it too, apparently, as is DeForest Kelley. I had no idea it was 3 hours long. Presumably it's one of those big "Southern" Civil War epics...

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