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“The Beach Boys” in IMAX presented by Disney+
AMC Tysons Corner, VA 5/21/2024 Even though it was over an hour away and meant navigating Washington, D.C. traffic, I reserved seats and went with a good friend who has seen Brian Wilson with me and likes the Beach Boys. We arrived about 7:00pm for the 8:00pm showing and there were about 50 people ahead…
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Heinlein In The Comics
I’m proud of this small bit of scholarship. This article wouldn’t be anywhere near as impactful without the graphics talent of Mark Bult, the Managing Editor of The Heinlein Journal. He not only created the cool image that starts the article but went after quality graphics and scans when I gave him some pitiful camera-snaps.…
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Review: The Beach Boys
at The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel Hanover, Maryland November 10, 2023 By John Tilden This was a new venue for me—I couldn’t pass up a chance to see The Beach Boys only twenty minutes from my house! I hadn’t seen a “Mike & Bruce” show since the early 2000s but by rough count…
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Never Forgotten
I try not to forget to make a stop by our local Police HQ where we have a September 11th memorial containing 2 girders and rubble from the WTC. Quiet reflection is useful, and I lived through this as a young father not far from several targets. My life wasn’t directly impacted that day, but…
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Ever go back and look at really old writing of yours?
I come from a family that was blessed (or is it cursed?) to be savers. So I’ve got writing all the way back to elementary school. Some of it’s not that bad. But some of it elicits involuntary cringing. I had a pretty good run of trying my hand at things through my first real…
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Welcome to my fresh start!
I’ve been doing a webpage for a very long time. I started hand coding in Notepad and that’s really where my knowledge of HTML has stagnated for a long time. I’m doing this website now to get a sense for how to maintain something in the twenty-first century.