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5 Fandom Friday – Five of My Favorite Halloween Movies

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  Magic (not the Mike kind) This is a movie that scared the mess out of me when I was a teenager.  First of all, I am no fan of ventriloquist dummies.  I can’t stand them, they scare the heck out of me.  Give me a movie with a dummy and you’ve got me scared. A looooooong time ago, back in 1978, there was this movie trailer that ran on television.  Mind you, this was back in the fun 70s where the cars waiting in line for gas would queue in front of my parents’ house.   This trailer wasn’t anything NEAR Silent Hill 3d (which by the way also frightens me with its grotesqueness) but was creepy just in the fact that it featured a dummy. The movie was directed by Richard Attenborough, the kindly old John Hammond in Jurassic Park. You’ll also find Burgess Meredith, Ann-Margaret, and Here’s the… Continued

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Gotham Recap – Viper

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Hello!  Back again for the next episode of Gotham:  Viper. The episode opens with Alfred asking young Bruce to go for a walk.  As always, Bruce is concentrating on solving the murders of his parents and cares not for fresh air and sunshine.  (I’m wondering, when does this little dude do his lessons?  He seems to have an awful lot of free time.) Alfred then asks him what if he never solves the murder of his parents and thus never gets to seek revenge? Bruce has the answer right there and tells him that he doesn’t want revenge, but wants to understand how Gotham works.  He wants to know why the mobsters are getting big shares of Arkham and why Wayne enterprises didn’t stop the corruption.  Alfred doesn’t think it’s particularly healthy, but Bruce blows him off. Maroni is teed off at the news that he can’t mess with Falcone

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Five Characters I'd Love to be for Halloween

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Here we are again for the Five Fandom Friday link up!  I must say I am enjoying these little trips every week. Let’s get right to the chase, shall we?  Here they are in no particular order. Captain Jack Sparrow – Pirates of the Caribbean movies   How much fun would it be to be a pirate (in the movie world, of course, forget the killing and the shooting and the scurvy and terrible food).  I loved the Pirate movies and remember the ride as a child at Disney World.  The long coat, the beads and shoot, there’s even a purse!  What’s not to like about this?     Akasha, Queen of the Damned   Just because… Aaliyah.  What an awesome costume.  Nuff said.     Steampunk-ish Victorian     All I would need is to add a pair of goggles and an umbrella! Poison Ivy     Yeah, so maybe

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Gotham Recap – Arkham

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  I’m not going to recap blow by blow as I did in my first recap. That took an awful long time to do, and I wasn’t able to give you the benefit of my opinion. First of all, some good news. Apparenlty the series got an extension of six more episodes over its original 22. Good that Fox has faith in this series, on the other hand….that’s a lot of pressure on the writers. Hopefully, they have the guts to see it through. On to the recapping. I must say, this was a slow episode. Gone is the excitement of Selina dancing rings around the police and a villain who ties his victims (deserving or not) to a weather balloon. The episode opens with Barbara Kean (who is awfully friendly to a dude she doesn’t know) swinging the door open wide to Cobblepot, who is there, he says to

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5 Fandom Friday-Geek Clothes…Get in my Closet Now!

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It’s that time of the week again, although I think I missed it by 24 hours or so.  No matter.  With a wrinkle in time (and backdating the publishing date), I can pop right back in time and pretend I’m posting this on a Friday when I was supposed to do it. Again a big thank you to The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick for organizing this! Without further chit-chat, let’s give you what you came here for, the five geeky items of clothes that I want in my closet now!  Take my money! Or better yet…send it free!! 1.  Soft Kitty Blanket from ThinkGeek.com Oh, so warm, so comfortable.  It’s a soft kitty snugglie.  Who wouldn’t want that?   2.  Wonder Woman T-Shirt  from superherostuff.com   I feel like a Wonder Woman whirlwind with three children and a dog, especially on the weekends.  I need this shirt to continually remind

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Gotham Recap – The Balloonman

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This is my first recap EVER! Please, be kind.   After a few brief scenes of what has come before in Episodes 1 and 2, the show gets down to the real meat. Oswald Cobblepot disembarks a bus in the heart of Gotham. Dressed in a dirty sweater and old pants, he stands on the corner for a brief moment, taking in the ruckus around him. Two children pickpocket a victim, police are taking shakedown money, a woman’s purse is stolen and streetwalkers solicit customers. He observes all this with a smile on his face and says “Home.” The next scene cuts to a news report that indicates a “financier”(Ronald Danzer) who has bilked people out of millions of dollars via a Ponzi scene has been released on bail. The financier himself appears on the phone, telling (we assume) his lawyer to pay everyone involved in the case “whatever it

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