Stan Lee Disney+ Documentary Review Stan Lee is a new documentary about the life and work of Stan Lee, the creator or co-creator of many of the Marvel Comics stable of superheroes. The documentary begins with Stan’s birth on December 28th, 1922. He was born Stanley Lieberman to immigrant parents in New York City. Though …
Television in the Era Before Cable and Streaming Growing up in the 60s and 70s was a strange time for entertainment. The USA went from every script having to go through a committee for a film to be made to the rating system where movies were judged and rated by their content. Television changed as …
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Tasting History: Where Food and Knowledge Meet In February of 2020, Max Miller started the YouTube show Tasting History with Max Miller. It soon became an internet sensation. And Max an almost overnight success. I didn’t find Tasting History until a year ago when it popped up in my YouTube feed and what a delight …
Peter Pan Does Not Fly Disney+ released on its platform a new movie Peter Pan and Wendy a new version of the timeless tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. (light spoilers follow) Peter Pan opened originally as a stage play in 1904. It quickly became a great success catapulting the author, J.M. Barrie …
Rings of Power Episode Three Legendary Leaders Review Episode three of Amazon’s series The Rings of Power premiered on Friday, September 9, 2022. The episode’s title is Legendary Leaders, and it lives up to its’ name with Galadriel still in the main spotlight and introducing Isildur and Elendil. Elendil is Isildur’s father, and both will …
Rings of Power – Episodes One and Two Review Let’s start with the fact that I am a Tolkien fan. I’m not a Tolkien scholar. I have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and bits and pieces of the other works published by Tolkien after his death by his son Christopher. …
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power The first episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will air on Amazon Prime on September 1, 2022. Or should I say the first two episodes as Amazon airs two episodes on its premiere date. The balance of the 8 episode season …
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It was just before Christmas when I last wrote about my weight. A lot has happened since then. First Christmas happened. Christmas was a lovely day spent with my housemate. Knowing and understanding the need to social distance my family did not gather for our yearly holiday celebration. At one level that really bothered me. …
The New Year celebration is seeped in tradition and folklore. Almost as much as Christmas. Kissing the one you love as the clock strikes twelve. Champagne to toast the New Year in, Fireworks and noisemakers that bring a loud sound of joy as one year passes and another starts. New Year Eve has always been …
And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the fields and keeping watch over their flocks by night, when lo an angel of The Lord came upon them and the glory of The Lord shown round about them and they were sore afraid, but the angel said unto to them “Fear Not! For …
Last week there was no My Weight Loss Adventure. This is because I was living the adventure with an illness that knocked the stuffing out of me. In more ways than one. It first hit my housemate d she did not feel good at all. It lasted 48 hours and she began to feel better. …
Thanksgiving week proved to be a challenge as there was so much really good food to eat. The positive points were in getting the meal from an outside source there wasn’t much leftover and also we added extra vegetables so there were more veggies on the plate than starch. I want to go over a …
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My Weight Loss Adventure – Thanksgiving It is week four of my journey and I am still unable to get weighed. This makes the task a little harder as I really don’t know if I’m moving forward or not. I have done my best to implement the suggestions made by the dietician and I am …
Start Now. Start where you are. Start with Fear. Start with pain. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just….Start. -Zig Ziglar The Long Weight Going into week three I have no weight to report. The county that I live in has …
The Covid-19 Test The update is that at my last doctor’s appointment I gained a pound But it was at a different time of day than I usually go and I had eaten two meals and not eliminated anything that day from my system. I think it was a false gain. I am going back …
First off my name is Mike and as you are going to get to know me fairly well in the next several months we might as well start off with some basics. I was born in 1961 which makes me 59 years old but closer to 60. I have gone up and down with my …