My Life Called So

POSTED 5:30 AM BY GERALD SO Getting away from the reality of the election with a story, book, or TV show seems futile in one way, but in another it's important. In fiction, good usually wins i...

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POSTED 6:00 AM BY GERALD SO There are a few recent examples of U.S. presidents who won the Electoral College but not the popular vote. Their opponents quickly pointed this out. But what about ...

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POSTED 3:30 AM BY GERALD SO Well, it's looking like a lot more people voted for Trump and Republicans than I ever thought would. I don't want to think why, but it's a reminder of all the ills ...

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POSTED 7:30 AM BY GERALD SO I think the show is well done enough. Kyle Schmid, Austin Stowell, and Robert Taylor bring their well-known characters to life. I'm not sure we need a darker NCIS...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/11/ncis-origins-so-far.html

POSTED 10:30 AM BY GERALD SO We don't usually get trick-or-treaters. The one year we did in the last decade, we were embarrassingly unprepared and have had something on hand since then, just i...

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POSTED 7:30 AM BY GERALD SO It occurred to me the effort to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot was like a well-intentioned effort to remove a wrong answer from a multiple-choice test. If all th...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-election-simile.html

POSTED 10:30 AM BY GERALD SO In line to vote early Saturday, I felt nervous. As much as I fear Trump winning again, things don't feel as urgent as in 2020, in the thick of Trump's botched COVI...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-never-ending-battle.html

POSTED 5:30 AM BY GERALD SO Former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit model Stacey Williams has accused Donald Trump of groping her in 1993, while Jeffrey Epstein, whom she was dating, watched. Wi...

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POSTED 11:30 AM BY GERALD SO This new show piqued my interest because it stars Kristin Kreuk and because it's adapted from a book series (by the late L.R. Wright ). Rossif Sutherland plays for...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/10/foxs-murder-in-small-town.html

POSTED 12:30 AM BY GERALD SO Not a political post. Today is my birthday and a traditionally significant one at that. I always have such expectations for my birthday, they're almost never met. ...

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POSTED 8:30 AM BY GERALD SO Sunday night CBS gave a sneak peek of its Matlock series starring Kathy Bates. Madeline Matlock presents herself as a do-gooder attorney cheated and mistreated by h...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-misdirection-of-matlock.html

POSTED 7:30 AM BY GERALD SO Based on the French TV series HPI, ABC's HIGH POTENTIAL sees Kaitlin Olson play Morgan, single mother and night janitor for the LAPD. In the pilot, Morgan happens t...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/09/abcs-high-potential.html

POSTED 9:00 AM BY GERALD SO This morning I downloaded a 2013 free 3D bowling game for my 2014 Kindle Fire HD. I have no excuse for taking so long.

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/09/lets-get-bowling.html

POSTED 5:00 PM BY GERALD SO Hard to believe he was passed over . Embed from Getty Images

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POSTED 2:30 PM BY GERALD SO Like many Asians it seems, all my life I've looked for well-fitting sunglasses, rarely finding them. A few years ago, I tried on a pair of Foster Grant aviators at ...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/09/looking-goodr.html

POSTED 1:00 AM BY GERALD SO James Earl Jones died Monday aged 93. My favorite of his performances was Admiral James Greer in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, PATRIOT GAMES, and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANG...

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POSTED 8:00 AM BY GERALD SO Having six overripe bananas in the fridge, I used three of them to make muffins in my 7-quart Power XL air fryer, modifying this recipe as follows: Preheat air f...

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POSTED 12:00 N BY GERALD SO Actor, director, and singer James Darren died yesterday at 88. I'll remember him most fondly for playing Vic Fontaine, the self-aware, holographic 20th century Veg...

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POSTED AT 4:00 PM BY GERALD SO Putnam Books approved me to review a NetGalley of the next Jesse Stone sequel , due to be published February 4, 2025.

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/08/advance-review-of-robert-b-parkers.html

POSTED 3:30 AM BY GERALD SO Next to the number of photos taken since the advent of digital cameras and smartphones, I've taken few. I haven't needed a smartphone enough to buy one, nor do I ha...

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POSTED 5:30 AM BY GERALD SO After failing to retrieve a stolen cache of spy identities, Roxanne Hall (Halle Berry) recruits her high school flame Mike McKenna (Mark Wahlberg) to help her buy t...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-union.html

POSTED 4:00 PM BY GERALD SO I grew up listening to WCBS 880 AM on my clock radio. I preferred it to 1010 WINS's typewriter background noise. Today, 880's parent company, Audacy, announced the ...

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POSTED 2:00 PM BY GERALD SO Kamala Harris has chosen progressive Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her 2024 running mate. The Harris-Walz ticket strikes me as infinitely more sensible than Trump-Vanc...

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POSTED 6:30 AM BY GERALD SO I am open to creators changing characters' gender or genealogy to tell stories relatable to their changing audience. Some examples I think worked particularly well ...

https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2024/08/gender-genealogy-and-attitude-swaps-in.html

POSTED 9:30 AM BY GERALD SO As a fan of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, I followed word of this new show from the beginning. Originally in development for HBO Max , it promised to be even grittie...

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