Author Archives: Mickey

Fiction is a Crime

    The Thought Police just nabbed another one, namely William Poole, 18, whose heinous crime is apparently possession of an imagination. “A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday … Continue reading

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Product of the Year

    My Linksys router got Product of the Year. I’m so proud.

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I Hate Blogs

    After months of inactivity, I feel a resurgence that reawakens my interest in updating the site…and then my frigging new hosts give me some crap about my MySQL activity and disable my database!    Computers suck.    Hopefully … Continue reading

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Oscars 2005

   5:56 PM: I wasn’t sure if I was going to live-blog tonight since I’d exhausted my movie-talk yesterday.  But I’ve got nothing else to do.  It’s this or just talk back to my TV screen.    I’ve been prepping … Continue reading

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Letters from Limbo

    I hate to say it, but it’s almost as if the comment spammers have won.  No, they haven’t attacked the site again, but the precautions I’ve taken to prevent them are prohibitive enough that I have been having … Continue reading

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Oscars Pre-Show

    My favorite weekend is upon us.  Sure, the Super Bowl might have bigger parties and better food, but at least Oscar weekend leads up to a TV show I actually watch for its content and not for the … Continue reading

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The Endangerd Sanders Speed Bump Cake

    From the Detroit News: “Now that Awrey Bakeries has filed for bankruptcy protection, the fate of a Detroit icon hangs in the balance.    “I speak of the chocolate bumpy cake, which represents not so much a beguiling … Continue reading

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They’re a Couple of Black Bars — Get Over It!

    I’m still not sure what to make of this letterboxing lawsuit against MGM.  I don’t have fullscreen and widescreen copies with which to compare, but my rudimentary knowledge of film projection suggests that the plaintiffs are a bunch … Continue reading

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Now Hiring. No Fatties.

    It’s almost like being picked on in the schoolyard again.  Howard Weyers, owner of Weyco Inc in Okemos, raised some controversy when he forced employees to either quit smoking or quit their job.  Now, due to rising insurance … Continue reading

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The Secret of Book Six

    JK Rowling has already hinted that a major character dies in the next book of her Harry Potter series.  I recently received information as to whom it might be.  Click the following link to find out.

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