First Barnes & Noble run of....EVER!

Yep, B&N moved into the husk of Target, and I needed a reason to check it out.

Checking websites, Bullmoose didn't have the thing I sought, but B&N did.

So, I raced over, and finally got....

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Maus review.

I said last time...

So, that's those!

Stay tuned for my full review of Maus.

Well, here we are!

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First post-holiday Bullmoose run of 2025.

That post-Christmas read-a-thon of Hainish and Earthsea took me into goddamned spring!

I didn't do nothin' but that, and neglected my shopping.

So! Here's the first burst of that!

Got these on the 10th.

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RIP Jean Marsh

From my future self in 6/9/26.

So, yeah, we got hit with a lot of celebrity deaths leading up to and after my mother's passing.

It was really a numbing beat-down.

Anyhoozlebies. Jean Marsh was Rose on "Upstairs Downstairs" she did a couple Doctor Whos, she was Mombi in "Return To Oz" and she was  Bavmorda in "Willow".

I've always joked " I liked 'Downton Abbey'  the first time it was on when it was called 'Upstairs Downstairs' 😏".

Yes, I've seen "Upstairs Downstairs".

My mother and grandmother got me into it.

Hey, they also got me into "Twilight Zone" "Alfred Hitchcock" "Dark Shadows" and Stephen King.

A track record like that, you friggin' listen.

I miss "Upstairs Downstairs". I wish it were still on in reruns somewhere.

I mean, free reruns. I'm pretty sure it's on Britbox behind a paywall.

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TIL: Serling-verse.

Things keep Kevin Baconing to Twilight Zone, so I ought to have a final decisive landing pad post for Twilight Zone.

So, here we go....

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TIL: Bunker-verse.

I did the Norman Lear memorial, but I felt bad I didn't do something better.

So, this is that.

I'll retro link this one to that post when I'm done.

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TIL: Little House On The Prairie.

So!! I said here...

That "rugged individualist" shit's been screaming howling bullshit since "Little House On The Prairie".

But I've got a whole separate post brewing about that. 😉😏

Well, here it is.

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Retroactive post #14.

Some slight cosmetic cyber-surgery.

Gave "Coward Of The County" its own split off (slightly) expanded review, and then linked it back into "Hooray for Hollyweird".

Now the thought-train of the latter flows a little better.

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Third crack at Guardians 3. -or- So, superheroes....

AKA: So, Marvel...Part 3. (Part 1, Part 2)

AKA: I love the 30's 2. (Part 1)

I felt after part 2 that maybe I might have gotten it wrong like after "Dogma" so I thought I'd give it one more whirl to make sure.

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RIP Val Kilmer

From my future self in 6/11/26.

Another dead celeb I was too depressed to keep track of at the time, cuz Ma was sick, and in her last days.

He was Madmartigan in "Willow" and that was one of Ma's favorite fantasy films ever.

Probably because she thought he was hot. 😏😆

He was in "Real Genius" which I consider the superior substitute to "Revenge of the Nerds" because "Revenge" is rapey and gross, and "Genius" is sweet, and kind, and anti-war.

The real 90's tech-sector nerds ended up like the "Revenge" nerds.

Bill Gates even went to Epstein island. Fuck.

Be like the "Real Genuis" nerds, kids.

He was Iceman in both "Top Gun" flicks.

And, he was the second least-loved Batman.

I thought he was comic accurate to 90's comic Batman.

Adam West Batman was a crazy person who took himself dead seriously, and all of Gotham played along. That had crept back in by the 90's, but not in the parody way like Adam did it.

90's Batman was starting to unravel a little, and in "Forever" you've even got him going to a sexy shrink.

Val Kilmer Batman is Robert Pattinson Batman, but everyone in Gotham loves him, and treats him like Santa in the Macy's parade.

Pattinson-Bats, the cops are still skeptical, and sneer with revulsion when he shows up.

I've always dimly suspected Adam West, Val Kilmer, and George Clooney used some stolen super-villain's mind control drug or ray to make Gotham love them.

And tested it on Robin.

😏

Give "Forever" another look. It's still not the greatest, but it's better than people give it credit for.

It's weird, but that's why I like it. 

Anyway, 65 is too young to die.

Fuck cancer.

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