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The Big Bang Observation

Posted on August 16, 2022 by carilynn27

The Big Bang Observation The Big Bang Theory ran on CBS from 2007 to 2019. Admittedly, I didn’t watch the first couple of seasons. I began watching it around 2014. When it went into syndication, I began watching the reruns … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 12 Seasons, 2007, 2019, Abusive, Actor, Actress, alcoholism, Amy Farrah Fowler, Anti-Intelligent, Apartments, Autism, Autistic, Awkward, Babies, balance, Bernadette, Beverly Wilcox, Big Bang Theory, Bisexual, bright colors, California, California Tech, card catalog, CBS, Comic Books, Controlling, crush, Divorce, doorbells, Drama, Dungeons and Dragons, DVD, Flaws, Friends, fuse holder, Gay, George Cooper, HBO Max, Homosexual, Howard, Humor, Jokes, Leonard, Marriage, Mary Cooper, Mean, Mom, Mother, Mothers, Nebraska, Nerd Culture, Nerds, Pasadena, Princeton, protective, Raj, Relatable, Religion, Religious, Respect, Science, Sheldon Cooper, simplify, Social Skills, Spock, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stereotypes, Strict, TBS, Wil Wheaton, Writers, Young Sheldon | 1 Comment

The Haunting of Hill House 1959

Posted on October 16, 2018 by carilynn27

February 22, 1999 The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House was a 1959 book by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson was born December 14, 1914 in San Francisco. She had been reading and writing all her life. She … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged 1959, 1999, Abigail, Adventure, Agoraphobic, Angel, Angle, Are Some People Born Bad?, Arthur Parker, bed, Blood, Book, Burned House Down, California, changes, Children, Class, Cold, Cold Spot, Coldness, Crane, Crazy, Creative Writing Classes, Dare, Dark, deadly, Death, Demons, Depression, Disorted Views, Dr. Montague, Drinking, Driveway, Eleanora, England, Evil, Explore, Family Novels, Flaky, French Palace, Gates, Ghost Hunt, Ghost Stories, Gone, Good, Gothic, Gothic Literature, grace, Grief, Guilt, hand holding, Heaven and Hell, Help Eleanor Come Home, Henry James, horror, House, House Is Toying With Them, Hugh Crain, Imprints, In Love, Isolated, Journey's End When Lover's Meet, land decays, Luke, mansion, Markway, Married, mentally ill, mind creates physical manifestations, Mother's Death, Movie, Mrs. Dudley, Mystery Machine, Nancy Miller, Nell, Nelly, New York, Norville Rogers, Novel, Ominous, opressive, Oscar, OSU, Ouija Board, People Are Killed, poisonous plant, Poltergeists, Power, problems, Psychic, scared, scary noises, Scooby Doo, Scream, Screamed, Screaming, secretive, Seculuded, Shirley, Shirley Jackson, Sleep, Stanley Hymn, statues, STOP, storms, Suicide, Supernatural, Suspense, The Haunting 1963 Movie, The Haunting of Hill House, The Innocents, The Lottery, The Nursery, The Ohio State University, The Tower, The Turn of the Screw, Thelma, Theo, Trapped, trying to leave, Unexpected Evil in Life, USA, Villagers, Wake, Walk Alone, Winchester House, Won't Stay After Dark, Writing, Written on the Wall | Leave a comment

Silent Spring

Posted on June 8, 2017 by carilynn27

Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 Silent Spring begins with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural … Continue reading →

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Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Event | Tagged 1960, 1962, 22nd Century, Air, beauty, Bill of Rights, Biology, bird-less, Bohemia, Bones, brush control, burning, California, cancer, carcinogens, Chemicals, Chimney Sweeps, choice, Coal, contact, Cornwall, cost, Coughing, DDT, Death, destroy non-human life, Destruction, diet, Disaster, dose, Dutch, Earth, Ecology, England, Environment, Environmental Movement, Fable For Tomorrow, Facts, farmers, Farms, fish-less, Fork in the Road, harm, Holland, Ill, Illinois, industrial revolution, industry, Inhalation, insects, lethal, lies, Life, Lung Cancer, Maine, marrow, Miners, Mines, Money, mosquitoes, Nature, Newspaper, not quite fatal, notes, Officals, Pesticides, Poison, Power, Preservation, profit, prophetic, Public, quotes, Rachel Carson, Radiation, rivers, Robert Frost, Saxony, Scientists, Sick, Silent Spring, Skin Cancer, Soot, species, streams, study, survive, Swallowing, Sweden, United States, US, Vision, Warfare, waterways, who gets to decide?, Who Speaks?, Why Do They Speak?, witness to nature, WWII | Leave a comment

Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays

Posted on June 3, 2017 by carilynn27

Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture | Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather | Leave a comment

Saved By The Bell

Posted on July 7, 2014 by carilynn27

Saved By The Bell I actually first saw Saved By The Bell when it was called Good Morning Miss Bliss on the Disney Channel back in 1987. I liked Haley Mills and knew her from The Parent Trap, That Darn … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1987, 1989, 1990, A.C. Slater, Andrea Larson, Anti-intellectural, August 10th 1990, Bayside, Break-Up, Broken Collar Bone, Caffine Pills, California, Chemistry, Circus of the Stars, College Guy, Date, Dated Co-Stars, Debbie Gibson, Dream, Driving Drunk, Dustin Diamond, Elizabeth Berkley, Get Married, Good Morning Miss Bliss, Goofy, Hawaii, Homelesness, Indiana, Injury, Jeff, Jessie Kiss, Jessie Spano, Jocks, Kiss, Leah Remini, Lisa Ann Russell, Lisa Kiss, Lisa Turtle, Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Met Wife, Mikey, Mr. Belding, Nerds, Nerdy, Nikki, Picking On Screech, Pollyanna, popular, Rena Sofer, Rush Week, Russian Swing, SAT, Saved By The Bell, Saved By The Bell Hawaiin Style, Saved By The Bell Reunion, Saved by The Bell The College Years, Saved By the Bell The New Class, Saved By The Bell Wedding in Vegas, Screech, Smart, Snow White and the Seven Dorks, Stacey, Stereotypes, Stevie Nicks, Summer, Surf U, That Darn Cat, The Parent Trap, University of California at Berkley, University of Iowa, unpopular, Yale | Leave a comment

Sons of Anarchy

Posted on November 13, 2013 by carilynn27

November 10, 2013 Anarchy Anarchy generally means a society without a publicly enforced government. Anarchism centers around the idea that the state is immoral, corrupt and not to be trusted. Like any philosophy, it has a spectrum swinging from Individualism … Continue reading →

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Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged 1800s, 1935, 1948, 2008, Anarchy, Barbarism, Brotherhoods, Buffalo Rose, California, Chaos, Colorado, Communism, Corrupt, Crime, Depotisim, Distrust of Government, Drugs, Force, France, Freedom, Futurama, FX, Gangs, Gemma, Greed, Hellboy, Hells Angels, Individualism, Jason, Jax, Kant, Leela, Libertarianism, Millitary, Nicky, One percenter, Outlaws, Power, Ray, Republic, Ron Pearlman, Self Rule, Sons of Anarchy, Sons of Silence, State, Suzie's, The Anarchist Cookbook, Violence, Without Rulers, World War Two | Leave a comment

Sweet Valley High

Posted on July 7, 2013 by carilynn27

Sweet Valley High Ana and I watched Season 1 Disc 3 of Sweet Valley High on DVD. I remembered catching the show a couple of times on a Saturday or a Sunday, but I never knew its regular time slot. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged 1984, 1989, 1994, 1997, 80s, 90s, Aunt Kelly, Bad, Big, Boyfriend, California, Cari Lynn Gilkison, Cheesy, Coccaine, Colorful, Double Jeporady, Drama, DVD, Elizabeth Keene, Elizabeth Wakefield, Enjoyable, Fashion, Francine Pascal, Good, In Too Deep, Jessica Wakefield, Kidnapped, Melodrama, Mystery, Nicholas Morrow, On The Edge, Regina Morrow, Richard Thomas, Saturday and Sunday Afternoon, Sweet Valley Confidential, Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley University, Telvision, Today, Trouble, Young, Young at Heart | Leave a comment

Origins of Oz

Posted on July 5, 2013 by carilynn27

Origins of Oz As a child I loved reading about the land of Oz. Although unique in that it was the first truly American Fairy Tale, there appears to be more to it. I took an interest in New Age … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV | Tagged America, Assyrian Exile, Atlantic, Atlantis, Australia, Ben Linus, California, Continent, Cyclone, Desert, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Edgar Cayce, electromagnetic, Ev, Fairy Land, Heba, Hebrews, Henry Gale, Incas, India, Island, James Churchill, L Frank Baum, Lemuria, Lost, Madagascar, Madam Blatskvy, Magic, Mayans, Mexico, Mound Builders, Mu, New Mexico, Og, Oz, Ozma of Oz, Pacific, Phillip Sclater, San Fransisco, The Lost Tribes of Israel, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Theosophy, Tornado | 4 Comments

More Mark-Paul

Posted on June 26, 2013 by carilynn27

More Mark-Paul The first magazine article I read about the teen idol Mark-Paul Gosselaar was in People Magazine. They did a two page article about him in 1990. It was all about how fame took its toll. And how being … Continue reading →

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Posted in Flashback, Movies/TV | Tagged 1988, 1990, 1996, 2010, Adventure, Alan Arkin, Attraction, Ava Loren Gosselaar, Barbara Dana, Beach, Bike, Born into Exile, Break-Up, California, Catriona McGinn, Charles in Charge, Children, Commander in Chief, Danger, Dating, Divorce, Down To Earth, Ducth, ego, Elizabeth Berkley, Fame, Fame Takes Its Toll, Flirt, Franklin and Bash, Friends, Girls, Grounded, Hans Gosselaar, Harley Davidson, Holland, Hollywood, Home Late, Jeff Probst, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lark Vooheries, Linda and Sylvia, Lisa Ann Russell, Loves to Travel, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Marriage, Michael Charles Gosselaar, Murphy Brown, Necessary Parties, Neice Britany-Paula, New York, Nintendo, NYPD Blue, Paula Gosselaar, People Magazine, Punky Brewster, Racing, Raising The Bar, Rebel, Rizzo and Isles, Romantic, Saved By The Bell, Skiing, Surfing, Teen Idol, The Netherlands, The Princess and the Marine, Tiffani-Amber Thesian, Valencia, Weeds | Leave a comment

California

Posted on December 12, 2011 by carilynn27

August 6, 1995 Golden. California always seemed golden to me. It was a place of sunshine and hope…I remember asking Mom to pack up and move to California when my problems were too much to bear. After endless hours of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Travel | Tagged Arizona, Bakersfield, Barstow, Bouce, California, Fresno, Kiawah River, Marble Fork, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mojave Desert, Phoenix, Potwisha Campground, Sequoia National Forest, Sierra Nevadas | 2 Comments

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