Insomnia Notebook
Saturday, February 27, 2016

“We called God for a comment, but he hasn’t returned our calls.”

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The Latter-day Saints Church has been upsetting some of its members. Last fall a policy was issued from the church saying that members in sa...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

More dumb jokes to tell at a party

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A magician worked on a cruise ship, and the audience was different each week, so he did the same tricks over and over again. The captain...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Beware, brothers, beware

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Men, Valentine’s Day is over for another year, and that gives us a year to continue walking on the eggshells that are relationships. While o...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

The prescient Playboy cartoon, and a doctor's view through rose-colored glasses

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Since the Supreme Court upheld lower courts on the legality of same-sex marriages, the idea of gay people marrying has been fair game for ca...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Mad Max and Star Wars, high tech remakes

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As if I needed a reminder that I am growing older than the target audience for TV and movies, I was surprised by the news that many film rev...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

The nude vampire girl; or, Mathilda May made quite an entrance

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Warning, NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Also not for those too young to be looking at nudity on the Internet. Kids, be good and leave now. I mean i...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

TV GUIDE, 1967: “Are Injuries Wrecking Pro Football?” Plus Mia Farrow, Don Knotts...even the Beatles

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The October 21, 1967 issue of TV GUIDE caught my eye at the local antiques mall. First, a beautiful picture of Mia Farrow on the cover, less...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

The union man, Joe Hill

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Joe Hill was executed a hundred years ago. He was killed by a firing squad in the Utah State Prison. Joe, a member of the International Work...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Held at bay by barking dogs

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My last couple of posts have been about my elusive memory. Some memories, even important ones, have faded, other minor memories stand out. W...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Honorable Discharge

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Two score and seven years ago, {or 47 years for those of you who might not know that a score is 20 years}, I was released from the United St...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Watching The Exorcist again for the first time

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The other day I sat down to watch some DVDs, old horror movies, to write up in this column before Halloween. The missus is gone in her role ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Pyramid scheme

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Nick Redfern’s 2012 book, The Pyramids and the Pentagon , is enormously entertaining. Redfern is a reporter who writes about subjects like U...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

The Wire re-seen

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Recently I watched all five seasons of HBO’s excellent series, The Wire , on DVD. I binge-watched, six episodes per day until I had finished...
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