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Mr. Clean, DIRTY!!
This is your roving reporter Anne O. Nimity – Yes, my parents wanted a girl. Get over it and move on. I’m down at the police station where I have just been speaking with Officer McGruff. Having recently heard of the untimely demise of the Pillsbury Doughboy - which sad event is still under investigation - I asked for a statement. The overcoat bedecked K-9 Officer was quoted as saying… “Don’t you worry, we’ll take a bite out of crime!” In any case, in my own ongoing investigations I have uncovered facts leading me to make this special news report tonight which I have titled:
By Andrew C McDonald3 years ago in Geeks
Blake's 7: Warship Review
One of Big Finish's most exciting products in their Blake's 7 range has to be their very first full-cast audio, "Warship". After a number of narrated Liberator Chronicles box sets and books, "Warship" was perhaps the closest Big Finish had got to telling an authentic Blake's 7 story up till that point, and, as such, was highly anticipated by fans. Set in the gap in between series two and three, and telling the story of the Liberator's fight against the alien fleet featured in the final episode of series two, the anticipation was even higher. Fortunately, this is a tight, exciting audio drama that bridges the gap between series two and three fantastically, and affords Jenna and Blake the departure from the Liberator that they weren't given in the TV series.
By Joseph A. Morrison4 years ago in Geeks
Grandma, Dostoevsky, and the emotional pull of literature. Top Story - May 2022.
My grandmother became a Reader in her late 80s, by accident. Her early education in the east of Poland during the third decade of the last century was interrupted by World War II when she finished grade 4. She never went back to school. Moving to Poland’s capital after the war, she took up manual labor right away to make ends meet.
By Tess V. Flaire4 years ago in Geeks
Gone With the Wind
I remember in 1980 when I was nine years old and living in The Galaxy Condominiums and attending Klien Elementary school, my mother sat me down in the living room in front of our television. She looked at me and said, "Shanon, I want you to watch my all-time favorite movie with me. I love this movie." So I put away my dolls, my piano lessons, my homework, and playing with the other kids and sat down with my mother to watch for the first time "Gone With the Wind" - her all-time favorite movie. I wanted to know why she loved the movie so much. At nine years old, my favorite movies were "Grease" and "The Jungle Book" but I didn't know much at nine years old. So I sat there and watched the masterpiece of film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's novel about the south and the civil war and slavery and survival. Why was this movie so important to my mother? I was sure if I paid attention, I would understand.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman4 years ago in Geeks
Kid Life Lessons With Love From Peanuts
Before television offered hundreds of channels 24/7 in never-ending children’s options, the ‘70s television golden era stretched in kid glorious majesty. Where I grew up, that meant hilarious and engaging children’s programs sprinkled sparingly across three TV stations throughout the year where said stations pretty much all signed off by midnight.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Geeks
Thrift Gold Review #1
Thrift stores are a treasure trove that many have lost touch with. Sure, I don't do a vast majority of my shopping at them--very little of it, in actuality--but there is no mistaking the wonder and even pressure involved in going there with a reason in mind.
By Ad-Libbing With The Z-Man4 years ago in Geeks
Top 5 cartoons introduced to me by "The U.S.A. Cartoon Express;" and 5 introduced to me by "Cartoon Network."
Hello, friends; me again. And hello to me from 1990 "me;" right around 5-6 years old and hanging out at my late grandmother's for the day with my G.I. Joe's somewhere nearby and a television set tuned to U.S.A. network in front of me. (my sister, ranging somewhere between 2 and 3 years was generally somewhere nearby too).
By Kent Brindley4 years ago in Geeks
