Fun Stuff
Set Sail for One Piece
I’ve been a One Piece fan for years. Maybe not as long as it has been around, it has over 1,050 episodes, but at least for twelve or thirteen years when it started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. Kris and I recently watched the first of eight live-action episodes […]
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Back to the Pond
Considering Kris is writing her novels, “The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles”, it’s not surprising that we ventured off to CSUN (California State University Northridge) to see dragonflies. CSUN has a meandering stream that starts at a man-made waterfall and ends in a duck pond. And for you Whovians, yes, we […]
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60 Years of the Captain?
60 Years? How can that be? I remember when I was little, we lived in the city of Bell, California. One day we got a small box of cereal in the mail. You know, one of those boxes that come in nine or ten variety packs at the grocery store? […]
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Pizza! Pizza!
Yesterday Kris and I went to Redlands to visit our niece, Annie. She recently finished her dental residency at the V.A. and will soon be starting a new job out there. For those of you who are not familiar, Redlands is east of Los Angeles. It takes us about two […]
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The Changing Face of Television
The way we watch television has changed a lot, even in the past two or three years. That’s pretty much what the writer’s strike is all about. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about TV from the consumers’ end. Growing up in Los Angeles, we had […]
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Bugging the Little Buggers
I love my two habanero plants, Richard and Nicole. But recently they’ve developed a tiny problem. APHIDS! I thought aphids only attacked roses, BUT NOOOOOO! (Anyone hearing this in John Belushi’s voice?) These little buggers primarily attack the flower buds, sucking them dry. And without flowers, no fruit. Being that […]
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We joined the Revolution
Until our niece, Annie in Riverside told us about it, we had never heard of Comic Con Revolution https://www.comicconrevolution.com/ontario/?utm_source=CCR+Ont+Attendees&utm_campaign=a36090b444-CCR23-052023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bb3bf536-a36090b444-128066380&mc_cid=a36090b444&mc_eid=196940ccea in Ontario, California. It was held last weekend, May 20th and 21st. For a con I had never heard of, in a not-so-major city, it had quite an impressive guest list, […]
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I’m your substitute, Vincent Reinhart.
Dennis is not in this week. He and Kris are celebrating their 34th wedding anniversary weekend. Yesterday they spent the day at Comic Con Revolution in Ontario, California. Today they are at the California Strawberry Festival in Ventura, California. I’m sure Dennis will have a lot to say about both […]
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Vincent Steps Out
It was time for the 39th annual “L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Dinner”. I had heard much of this event, and this year Dennis invited me to be his guest along with Kris. The decorations of the Taglyan Complex were extraordinary, the centerpiece being the […]
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LATFoB 2023
LATFoB 2023 I spent this weekend at the LA Times Festival of Books volunteering at the GLAWS booth. There, you see, here’s a picture of me at the booth. Usually, I go to big events like this and take lots of pictures, but I’m never in them. So this time […]
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