Category Archives: american history

Move Over, “Doctor Who!” My New British TV Obsession is PBS’ “Masterpiece Mystery: Sherlock!”

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Where has this show been all my life?!? 🙂 I finally gave it a try a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m hooked FOR GOOD!

The Season 3 finale airs tomorrow night! I’ll probably only see part of it then, but will find the repeats during the week before finding all the back episodes online.

Word! :)

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Today’s WORD on Journalism Afflicting the comfortable since 1995” Friday, Jan. 31, 2013 • See TedsWORD: http://tedsword.blogspot.com/

Advice for Writers

 

“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy are probably not that great. Ruin, hysteria, bad skin, unsightly tics, ugly financial problems, maybe; but probably not peace of mind. I tell them that I think they ought to write anyway.” 

 —Anne Lamott, writer, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994.

 

• Editorial Comment: Well, who needs peace of mind when you have hysteria?

re: Super Bowl XLVIII/ Super Bowl 2014: Ah, New Jersey, Not A Real State :)

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Yes, the Super Bowl will be played in NEW JERSEY.

Yes, but as a New Jersey native who lived there from the ages of zygote to 24, I must confess that New Jersey is not a real state. 🙂

It’s two metropolitan areas (NY and Philadelphia) with Trenton in the center. 🙂

So what is the NFL going to do? Set up its marketing/media apparatus less than 15 miles from the nation’s top media market?!? LOL! 🙂

*SIGH* 😦

New Jersey ALWAYS gets the shaft! (Jets, Giants, etc.)

I mean, if I were to argue that the Statue of Liberty is really IN NEW JERSEY (yes, I’m bringing up that old argument again, see “Jurisdictional Disputes” sub-head in the link  😉 , I would be committed, right? LOL! 🙂

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Morrie Turner Is Now An Ancestor

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I don’t think it’s emphasized enough that the brother had an ABC cartoon based on his strip, a rare honor–especially back then.

“Wee Pals” never ran in any paper I remember. But as a little tyke, I do remember this show because it would come on Saturday mornings in the early 1970s. I watched it while waiting for “Superfriends” (then a NEW program) to come on! 🙂