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    These are a few of my favorite themes…

        So, I made you all a little video. Please watch and then comment with some of your own favs, and be on the lookout for more in this series on…

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    Joan Crawford has risen from the grave.

    Joan Crawford in 1959, by Eve Arnold.   I wrote about FX’s “Feud: Bette And Joan” during my Lenten series of blog posts. I just watched the finale, “You Mean All This Time…

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    Lent- Day 23: The Jinx is brought to light.

    (IMDB)     Have you heard about Robert Durst? There’s a lot- and that’s an understatement- to tell about the stranger-than-fiction-yet-very-real man at the center of multiple murders. From The New York…

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    Lent- Day 22: Wading in the nihil.

      Jay-Z in “On the Run” (Radio Lab)   It’s been a long, long day. Rainy, gray and layered thickly with foreboding. A real walking in “the valley of the shadow of…

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    Lent- Day 18: The sea of forgetfulness is better than the valley of the dolls.

        Over the weekend I started watching the cancelled Fox show “Dollhouse”, available for streaming on Netflix. It came highly recommended by my brother Joe, who didn’t even have to “Sherlock”…

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    Lent- Day 17- My spirit faints.

      (Source) As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the Israelites. Why, after God delivered them out of slavery in Egypt, would they so quickly turn to making a golden calf to worship…

  • Lent- Day 9: Frank Underwood doesn’t understand Jesus.

      (House of Cards, Season 3)        Don’t worry, Frankie-boy, I don’t totally get him either.   Let me back up. Today Netflix released the third season of the highly…

  • Lent- Day 9: Frank Underwood doesn’t understand Jesus.

      (House of Cards, Season 3)        Don’t worry, Frankie-boy, I don’t totally get him either.   Let me back up. Today Netflix released the third season of the highly…

  • Way down in the hole.

      My interview with Tray Chaney who played Poot on “The Wire” was so much fun, I wanted to keep it going. See, I’ve caught some flack from a couple friends over…

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    Way down in the hole.

      My interview with Tray Chaney who played Poot on “The Wire” was so much fun, I wanted to keep it going. See, I’ve caught some flack from a couple friends over…