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  1. Howie Mandel Barbara Mandrell Barbara Bain
  2. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Like some jazz box sets, 'Complete' might mean too much of a good thing, but this set looks great! Unlike 'Peanuts', which, granted, ran for 50 years, this strip was consistently inventive and funny, with fantastic artwork. Can't wait! Available at Amazon for pre-order at less than $100. As a side note, I was intrigued by the 'Complete Peanuts' collections that are coming out, but wasn't sure if I'd want them on my shelf. After getting the first volume out of the library, I'm plunking down my hard-earned cash on these books. The early strips from the 50's are really quite funny and edgier than the later comics I'm more familiar with.
  3. Chuck E. Cheese's Jesus H. Christ Robert Christgau
  4. Conrad Black Red Mitchell Leon Trotsky Leon Redbone Leon Spinks Amelia Earhart
  5. Esther Williams William Conrad Conrad Janis
  6. Freddie Prinze Chico Hamilton Alexander Hamilton
  7. Reading the 'Reporting World War II' and 'Reporting Civil Rights' volumes are amazing experiences, completely different from reading a history book. There's a sense of the unknown in reading articles written in the midst of turmoil, in which no one knows how things are going to turn out. That quality is mostly missing in other history books, in which the author already knows how things end up. My faves in the series, besides the above, are the Crime Novels of the 30's, 40's and 50's, and the collection of stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Library of America Webpage
  8. I'm a longtime subscriber to this great series, and they just announced the next wave of books to be published, including a couple volumes of film criticism: JAMES AGEE—Fall 2005 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction - Film Writing & Selected Journalism AMERICAN POETRY: 17th & 18th Centuries—2006 RICHARD HENRY DATA, JR.: - Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages—Fall 2005 HENRY JAMES: - Novels 1901-1902—Spring 2006 ARTHUR MILLER: Plays 1944-1961—Spring 2006 PHILIP ROTH Novels & Stories 1959-1962—Fall 2005 Novels 1967-1972—Fall 2005 AMERICAN FILM CRITICS—2006
  9. Not everybody thought it was funny, but I thought Jonathan Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS was freakin' hilarious. Almost everyone I talked to who read it didn't see the humor in it and thought it was too depressing, but I think it's one of the funniest (and best) books I've read.
  10. I highly recommend Frederick Exley's A FAN'S NOTES. This book had me crying with laughter on the subway, which makes you feel like a big dork, but it's that funny. The other two books in the 'trilogy', NOTES FROM A COLD ISLAND and LAST NOTES FROM HOME, are kind of a let-down after the brilliance of the first one.
  11. I was a HUGE Kolchak fan. That show moved all over the TV schedule, and was on, for a period, at 10:00 Wednesday nights, starting an hour after my bedtime. I would sneak downstairs and watch it standing up on the black and white TV in the kitchen with the sound just barely on and my ear right against the speaker so my parents wouldn't hear it. Got caught once or twice, but then the schedule changed and it was on Friday nights and I didn't have to be a big sneak about it. I still remember the theme song, even though I haven't seen the show since it was originally on. Didn't know Gil Melle wrote it. Don't remember Ghost Story, but I'm surprised I don't, as that kind of thing was what I lived for back then. I also loved Cliffhanger, but don't remember much other than the vampire episodes. I also religiously watched a syndicated show called 'The Hilarious House of Frightenstein,' but I don't remember much about that one either. Saturday mornings, besides the obvious Scooby Doo and the Scooby Doo Movies (coming out on DVD), I thought Goober and the Ghost Chasers was original and entertaining. There was also the live-action The Ghost Busters. I'm sure there were others I'm forgetting.
  12. Lennox! You should be receiving your email any day now from UMG asking you to kindly return the item.
  13. Loan me two til Tuesday and I will pay you back. Make it three til Thursday, and I will dig you, Jack! From the aforementioned Cole Box.
  14. I thought it was somewhat lame that Paul didn't even play the guitar solo in Get Back! Oh well. My kids liked the fireworks during Live and Let Die.
  15. The guy with the sparkler birthday cake is one of the funnier things I've seen. As long as no one was hurt!
  16. Coming March 1st. Includes maybe my favorite episode: Battle of the PBS Stars! If my hazy memory serves, the boxing match between Mr. Rogers and William F. Buckley is tear-inducing.
  17. I'm a pharmacokineticist for a pharmaceutical company. Our group runs the first-in-man studies for new drugs that have completed pre-clinical testing. I run statistical models to determine things like how long it takes for the drug to be absorbed into the body, how long it takes the drug to get out of the body, etc.
  18. It was 'The Quincunx' by Charles Palliser. I didn't read it, but was intrigued by it when it came out. It's still available.
  19. Hear hear! After Ernie Bushmiller died, the 'Draw Tippy' art school applicants who took over the Nancy cartoon, like 'Plastino', failed to really exploit the reason that Nancy was even in the paper, namely, that third panel in the first strip posted. Bushmiller, unintentionally I think, started the whole shift away from white underwear. You just can't get away with drawing Aunt Fritzi in white underwear.
  20. A couple of years ago, I dug out my big bottle of D4 from over 20 years ago, a little less than half full. I looked inside and there was quite of bit of black sediment in the bottle. I don't know what it is, but you might want to take a peek in your bottles if you haven't already.
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    iPod

    When this has happened to me, once I reset the iPod, everything's ok. Hold the menu button and the center button together for 5 or 10 seconds until the apple logo appears on the screen, then try connecting to your computer.
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