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Quite gripping. We're hooked. Set in present day. John Krasinski stars, and it's light-years removed from "The Office." Set in present day. As far as I know, the plots have nothing to do with anything Clancy wrote. Great sets, great locations, and great, identifiable acting.

Netflix series. I thought I had talked about this before, but I don't see where I did. This is based off the same storyline, but different, than the movie "Shooter" with Mark Walberg, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, and others. The movie is a guilty pleasure of mine, and Walberg is an executive...

No, I haven't seen an advanced screening of Deadpool 2. I'm just completely looking forward to it. And it's a delayed gratification thing because I don't do opening weekends. Don't like the crowds and don't like the seat selection. Although if the Eldest calls me up and says, "Let's go!" Grandma...

We started with Daredevil and watched all the way through. Enjoyed it. Started with Jessica Jones, but it was just so negative and without much of revelation of why she's super. We didn't watch past the episode where she hooked up with Luke Cage. It just had stopped getting our attention...

USA Network series. It has some similarities to the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, and Ned Beatty, and that movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. (Mark Wahlberg is an executive producer for the TV show.) It's a serial. Best to see from the start. We're watching it on Netflix...

I colored Grandma's hair last night. That in itself is nothing special. We do this every few weeks because she prefers blonde over gray, and I prefer to keep my blonde lady that I started going out with in 1970. After she was color-refreshed and showered, her hair was shining in the light, and...

He brought intelligence, literary sense, and erudition to sports writing. And I always enjoyed his Wednesday commentary on NPR. He seems to have been a man of grace and keen observation.

Spiced baked chicken, butter-cooked and spiced asparagus, and thin hand-sliced potatoes and onions fried up in canola oil, because olive oil doesn't work well at the heat needed. The asparagus, potatoes, and onions came from the farmer's market this afternoon. Grandma pronounced it delicious...

Please go to the O'Reilly Auto Parts website. In the Search box, enter 121G and search it. You will thank me for this, but you'll have to get in line behind me. Not spam. Not phish. I wouldn't do that to you.

Why I Like Writing (and wish I could do it full-time) It flows for me. At this hobbyist-style stage, I'm pumping out the tales and not worried about deadlines. I rarely have "writer's block." Sometimes I don't know where a story's going when I start it, but doggone if it doesn't start...

I posted this on Facebook, and people like it, so I thought I'd share it here. Within those who have served in the Armed Forces, there is a certain hierarchy. There is the one who served, all in peacetime, never in harm's away other than theoretically, and in fact just may have had the type of...

It's a cable/satellite channel. We were watching it last night for an hour-long show about the Coen brothers' movies. They'd made more movies than we thought, and we have some catching up to do. They had interviews. George Clooney sure seems to be a nice guy. Kurt Russell's beard puts Karl...

There must be more like me. I get a little itchy on Mother's Day. I do lavish praise on Grandma and the Daughter and the Sons' Wives. But I see all kinds of homage to people's moms here, on Facebook, and......... I'm just not there. I'm not denigrating that adore-Mom sentiment, not at all...

This is a Netflix series set in the Marvel universe, although that isn't readily apparent for a while. Well, okay, you do get that impression from the opening credits, of course. It's in the same vein as Daredevil but grittier and more brutal. There's enough brutality to be a little bit...

I was having a conversation with a friend, and the subject of pomegranates came up. Yeah, my friends and I have these types of manly discussions. Anyway, he asked me how I removed the seeds, and I said I scored the fruit into sixths, split it apart, and picked out the seeds. He said what a...

I forget if it's TNT or TBS, because I get them confused, that's been playing various iterations of A Christmas Carol, movies based off the well-known Dickens story. A while back, we saw Scrooged. But last night, they had the Patrick Stewart version. It's our favorite (even over the Mr. Magoo...

Yeah, yeah, I know. It's kinda fluffy, but it's fun, and we're enjoying it. The actress actually pretty well fills it as I've visualized the character. The Calista Flockhart character is annoying to some, but she's the right balance of annoyance and entertainment for us. And J'onn J'onzz just...

It's a Netflix series, produced by Marvel. The violence once in a while is a little over the top for our tastes. But that's the 2%. The other 98% has us quite interested. It's a compelling series, on the comic book side but not over the top, with sly little references to other events in the...

Grandma and I were watching a TV show last night, because sometimes we do that, and a Google commercial came on, with people talking to and getting answers from their phone like it was their own personal droid... I mean, robot. I snorted. "I call BS. I've got the Google app. It doesn't do that...

I like the vignette format. The writing is sometimes dull, sometimes sharp. Good comedy moments, some flat times. Grandma loves it. I like it enough to hold her hand and spend time, but not enough to get invested in it. It seems to me that it's a try at "Arrested Development" on network TV...