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January 7, 2014

Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again!  On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say?  Do I really get that much mail?  Well, I’ll […]

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Best Metal Albums of 2013
January 1, 2014

I've never been one for new albums.  Partly because  my taste tends to run "old school," and partly because there is so much older stuff that has withstood the test of time that I still …

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2013 – Year in Reviews
January 1, 2014

Every time the end of the year comes around I always get the same questions.  How many movies did you watch last year?  What were the best ones?  How many did you watch by decade?  …

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Monthly Movie Reviews – December, 2013
January 1, 2014

Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 11 Movies that were new to me – 7 Great Katherine Hepburn performances – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Red River   December 29 Holiday Affair …

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IO5M 14: The Top Five Least Annoying Changes from the Book in The Desolation of Smaug
December 30, 2013

If you don't recognize the header image, it's from xkcd, the best of all webcomics.  Check it out! Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature!  I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday …

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Middle-earth Monday 48: The Grey Havens
December 23, 2013

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I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”.  Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like.  No, not [just] Black …

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It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with my taste in black metal that I rather love Impetigo's Horror of the Zombies.  It is a type of death metal that eschews technicality for …

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