GREAT BOOK – Rarity from the Hollow

Posted on November 10, 2020 by

I seldom recommend a book until I’ve read the ending. Rarity from the Hollow by Robert Eggleton is first ever. I’m three chapters in and I already feel this book deserves the Pulitzer and Booker and the HUGO all together.

I was captured by Eggleton’s story from the first page and am steadily reading through it. It’s NOT one of those books which are hard to put down. This is one of those books that are read slowly because when you’re done you will never, ever read it for the first time.

Here is the blurb for the book.

“Life in the Hollow is hard. But Lacy Dawn has one advantage – an android was inserted into her life and is working with her to cure her parents. He wants something in exchange. It’s up to her to save the Universe. Lacy doesn’t mind saving the universe, but her family and friends come first.”

Click image to read first few chapters and to buy the book.

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MANDALORIAN Season 2 begins

Posted on October 30, 2020 by

This is for the few of you who somehow missed the announcements. Season 2 of The Mandalorian begins streaming on Disney+ on Friday, October 30th.

Each of 8 episodes will arrive on each Friday till the last episode on January 18th. (I myself will wait till that day before I re-subscribe to D+ as I will want to watch S2 on MY schedule, not D’s.)

Want a refresher on Season 1? Go to the following one-minute recap. (Or re-watch S1, which is what I plan to do the day of the last episode of S2.)

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KATHERINE RYAN – quirky British comedy

Posted on October 18, 2020 by

I recently discovered a new (to me) hilarious comedienne. She’s Katherine Ryan, a Canadian comic living and working in the UK. She has two comedy specials on Netflix.

Katherine Ryan: In Trouble

Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room

After watching her comedy specials on Netflix I was intrigued enough to watch the dramedy THE DUCHESS that she’d written, produced, and starred in. It is six half-hour episodes that has a satisfying story arc as well as being funny.

I highly recommend all three. Her humor is frank with a British comedic turn-things-on-their-side weirdness.

Click on the image to see a trailer. To get it click HERE.

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ENOLA HOLMES – Sherlock’s little sister now on Netflix

Posted on September 23, 2020 by

Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft (who as everyone knows is the smarter of the two) have a little sister: Enola. She has had an unusual upbringing, taught by her mother to fight (among other unconventional skills).

When her mother goes missing Enola does not wait for her brothers to find Mama. She goes herself.

And thus we have a Netflix movie to document her hunt, which turns into an investigation of a larger and more dangerous situation.

Click on the image to see a trailer. To get it click HERE. To get her books click HERE.

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CUTIES – a movie protesting the early sexualization of women

Posted on September 18, 2020 by

The Netflix movie “Cuties” has gotten a lot of people upset about it. It has been accused of pandering to pedophiles. I just watched it and saw instead an underlying criticism of the way young girls are brought up. I recommend the movie.

Women are bombarded from birth with brainwashing. It tells them that their importance, even their ONLY importance, is to be a wife and mother. To do that they must be at the same time sexy and virginal. Sexy to all men so they can capture one in marriage, but thereafter to be sexy only to him.

The sexualization starts even before women can walk. Infants and little girls are praised for being “cute” and for wearing pretty dresses. A long-running popular TV show was “Toddlers and Tiaras” where girls barely out of infancy competed in beauty contests. Cheerleading where mostly girls dress sexy and do sexy moves start in middle school and go through high school and college.

Much of social media encourages women to be sexy even before they become women. Popular participants in the likes of YouTube and TikTok can garner many thousands of followers. This is the focus of “Cuties” as an eleven-year old Senegalese girl discovers social media and works to become popular through dance routines inspired by Beyoncé and Rihanna and other singers.

Click on image to see a trailer of the movie & get it.

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FOR ALL MANKIND – terrific Netflix series

Posted on August 25, 2020 by

I just finished watching the first season of the Apple+ ten-episode series For All Mankind. A second season has been OK’d.

It depicts an alternate reality in which the US and Russia continued and increased their rivalry for control of the Moon and its resources. Numerous historical figures are main characters, most especially the astronauts of the 1970s. Other figures are referred to such as Presidents Nixon and Kennedy (although it’s Bobby and not Jack who become President).

Wives and girlfriends also have major roles with stories as interesting as those of the astronauts–which includes five female astronauts.

Available on Apple+ for $4.99.

Click on image to see trailer & buy movie.

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ALIEN DANCE – the STARWALK

Posted on August 19, 2020 by

 

Near the end of the climactic book of The Space Orphan trilogy, Voyages of the Orphan, Jane Kuznetsov visits a stellar system which is the home base of the Star Guardian who protects our solar system.

During that visit she sees the way citizens of the Human Interstellar Confederation live. I could only give hints as reality would surely overshadow anything my imagination could come up with. My hope is that this will stimulate you, my readers, to imagine it and do it more convincingly than I can.

Part of life is enjoying music and other art forms, such as dance. I skimped on those perhaps most of all. Here is a dance form I might have included.

It is an evolution of a very old style of dancing that Michael Jackson popularized: the slide. He called it the Moonwalk and it has evolved since he did so. I call this new form the STARWALK.

Click on image to see the video.

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FUN DANCING SCENES from Great Older Movies

Posted on July 21, 2020 by

Just for fun – a mashup of dancing scenes from movies set to the tune of Footloose.

Click on image to see the video.

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Michael Jackson inspired BILLY JEAN dancing

Posted on February 7, 2020 by

Whatever Michael Jackson did in his personal life, in his public life he gave joy to many millions of people all over the world. Here is a dance mashup of performances by both expert and amateur dancers to the tune “Billy Jean.”

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FUN VIDEO – tune from Status Quo band: In The Army Now

Posted on August 31, 2019 by

Want to see Darth Vader & Storm Troopers dancing? (And some cute girls and guys?) Watch!

The tune is from an album by the UK band Status Quo. Video by videditor KM Music in Thessaloniki Greece. One of my favorite YouTube channels.

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