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Premium Channels
Premium Channels HBO has been around since 1972 and Showtime has been on the air since 1976. Cinemax, nicknamed Skinemax, began it’s run in 1980. Then came The Disney Channel in 1983. Starz came late to the party in 1994. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Friendship in Vienna, Big Little Lies, Black Sails, Cable TV, Camelot, Chernobyl, Cinemax, Dead Like Me, Disney, DVD, Fraggle Rock, Game of Thrones, Girls, Good Morning Miss Bliss, Gravity Falls, Hannah Montana, HBO, His Dark Materials, Homeland, In Treatment, Kim Possible, Library, Phineas and Ferb, Sex and the City, Shameless, Showtime, Starz, Subscribe, Subscription, That Darn Cat, The Big C, The Borgias, The L Word, The Spanish Princess, VCR, Watchman, Weeds, Westworld, Willow, Wizards of Waverly Place
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Dia De Los Muertos
November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday. In the Aztec … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Mythology, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1960s, 2017, All Inclusive, Anglo-Saxon, Aurora, Aztec, Belle, blantly racist, bones of the dead, born mortal, Calveras, children who have died, Cinderella, Coco, Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, decorate graves, Dia De Meurots, Disney, Families, Fashion, festival, Festivals, Goddess of the Dead, Greeks, Hades, Halloween, Honoring, Indigenous Roots, Intent, Jasmine, La Calvera, Latin Culture, Latina, Latino, Maya, Mexico, Mictecacihautl, Moana, Multicultural, Native American, offerings, openly mock, Overacting, Persephone, Pocahontas, Princess Tiana, Racist, Respect, sacrificed. ancestors, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, special, Sports Teams, Sugar Skull, The Book of Life, Underworld, Unique, White
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From Beast to Blonde
From Beast To Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers Mariana Warner, 1994 This is an entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Writing
Tagged Andrew Lange, Archetypal, Babies, Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Blue, Charles Perrault, Children, Disney, Fairy, Fairytales, Folklore, Green, Hades, Inner Beast, Justice, Magic, Marian Warner, McKinny, Mother Goose, Nana, Nanny, Nurse, old crones, Old Women, Persephone, Red, Robin McKinney, Rose, Roses, Sex, Silence, Simon Magus, Social Context, Spring, stores, Storks, survival skills, sybls, Tales, The Beast and the Blonde, Travel, Venus, Violet, Wives Tales, Wizard, Yellow
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Frozen
Frozen This Season—Season 4—they’ve chosen the Snow Queen as their villain. The writers introduced Elsa at the end of Season 3. She causes some chaos, but soon warms up to the inhabitants of Storybrooke. It is her Aunt Ingrid that … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged 2014, Anna, Aunt Ingrid, Beast, Beauty and the Beast, Captain Hook, Cronuts, Cruffins, Dangles, Devil, Disney, Elizabeth Mitchell, Elsa, Emma, Enhance Flaws, Evil Queen, Frozen Heart, Gerda, Hans Christian Anderson, Henry, Henry's Grandfather, If on a winter's night a traveler, Imp, In a network of lines that intersect, Intersecting Paths, Italo Calvino, Kai, Lost, Neverending Fairy Tale, Once Upon A Time, Regina, Robin Hood, Rumple, Season 3, Season 4, See The Worst in People, Shattered Mirror, Snow Queen, Sotrybrooke, Story line, Troll, True Love's Kiss, Villain, Writers
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Rocking Robin
Rocking Robin The first time I remember seeing Robin Williams is in the 1980 movie Popeye. I wasn’t very old, but I liked the movie. He also acted in the TV series Mork and Mindy from 1978 to 1982. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 9 Mos, Aladdin, Alcoholism and Addiction, Awakenings, Ben Affleck, Cadillac Man, Comic Relief, Cozy Carlisle, Dead Again, Dead Poets Society, Death, Disney, Flubber, Good Morning Vietnam, Good Will Hunting, grace, Hamlet, Happy Feet, Heart Surgery, Heaven, Hell, Hook, Jack, Jumanji, Lonely, Matt Damon, Mike Church, Mork and Mindy, Mrs Doubtfire, Murder, Night at the Museum, One Hour Photo, Parkinsons Disease, Patch Adams, Popeye, Rehab, Reincarnation, RV, Suicide, The Birdcage, The Crazy Ones, What Dreams May Come
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Indiana Jones Books
Indiana Jones Books In 1991, I discovered a new series of books that expanded upon the universe created in the three original Indiana Jones movies. Author Rob McGregor, who had written the novelization of The Last Crusade, returned to write … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 19 year hiatus, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992-1995, Aliens, California Jones, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cartoons, Cold War, College, Deidre Campbell, Disney, Famous People, Franchise, George Lucas, Harry Potter, Historical Figures, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Seven Veils, Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs, Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge, Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth, Indiana Jones and the Interior World, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi, Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx, Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy, Indiana Jones and the White Witch, inspiration, Irony, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Killed, Magic, Married, Martin Cadin, Max McCoy, Mystical, Nazis, Novels, Oracles, Peru, plot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Religious, Rob McGregor, Sean Connery, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Spiritual, Stephen Spielberg, Steve Perry, Suspension of Disbelief, The Bible, The Lost Testaments, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Purple Rose, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Time Travel, Tukyme, TV show, Voynich Manuscript, World War Two
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George Lucas
George Lucas George Lucas came to my attention in 1988. That was the year that I saw Willow. I knew of him from Star Wars. Although I liked Star Wars, it hadn’t captured my imagination like Willow did. Star Wars … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Flashback, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1988, Biography, Carrie Fisher, Digital, Disney, Elven Rings, Family, Fans, Father Figure, Futuristic, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, J.J. Abrams, Jean Marsh, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Last Crusade, Leia, Lord of The Rings, Lucasfilm Ltd, Mark Hamill, Sean Patrick Flannery, Security, Skywalker Ranch, Skywalking, Slicker, Sorsha, Star Wars, Strong Women, Uncle George, Val Kilmer, Vision, Warrick Davis. Joanne Whalley, Willow, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables I first watched Anne of Green Gables on PBS in 1985 at my friend Jill Boroom’s house. Realizing the mini-series was based upon a series of books by L.M. Montgomery, I was eager to read them. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Ingleside, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne Shirley, Anne's House of Dreams, Chronicles of Avonlea, Diana, Disney, Emily of the New Moon, Futher Chronicles of Avonlea, Jill Boroom, Kevin Sullivan, Kilmey of the Orchard, L.M. Montgomery, Lake View, Megan Follows, Mini-Series, Mystery Mansion, Ohio, PBS, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Sewer Sill, Shelby, Smiley Avenue, Valley View, Walter, WWI
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