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No movie was made explicitly about him or his protégés, but they had many stories that could have been the inspiration or one of the inspirations behind a movie. For instance, there was a school here in D/FW called Carter High. In the 1980s-90s, it was so crime ridden that it seemed like there...

Drifting off slowly…

The only public access channels I watched on a regular basis were in Austin, TX, plus one particular one in Irving, Tx when I moved to the neighboring town of Coppell. In Austin, I saw the stuff you’d expect if you’d seen SCTV or UHF, but also a couple of solid advice hosts, live music...

Hey, he let her know he was there. He definitely didn’t have to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel,_Woman_of_Kleenex Tangent: a girl I knew in college had a fling with an Army Ranger who free climbed a wall to knock on her bedroom window.🤷🏾‍♂️

In some ways, you’re not far off. He had an ever present aura of fear & respect. He was a smart, driven man, and no-nonsense. He channeled that into becoming an educator. He taught HS & college courses, and was even a principal- actually, the first black man to be a principal of a white...

Well, it interests you AND you’re motivated. That’s 2 in the + column.🤷🏾 And the third one- whether you have a knack for it- you can’t know until you’ve invested some time learning.

Anecdote: despite attending a private Catholic HS in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the early/mid 1980s, the only people who genuinely confronted me about playing D&D (and listening to heavy metal music- another target of the Satanic Panic) were my godmother and my born-again art teacher.* In...

My sleep deprived brain envisioned this literally. As in Hades throwing undead critters at Pluto.

I’ve often thought about that game, but never pulled the trigger. I can envision a Border Collie similar to your Corgi. Or maybe a Husky bard ( 😂 ). OTOH, I recently designed a 3.5Ed Fey pc who was essentially a 2 headed anthropomorphic Samoyed fighter…

Tangent: one of the bases Dad (and thus, our family) was stationed at in the 1970s was Fort Lewis, where I got hooked on Shasta. I seem to recall it being called “pop” back then.

I think he might…but most likely only as a little inside joke. The man does have a sense of humor. Or hires people who do. Remember this?

My personal take on this kind of thing is that it depends on your level of interest, your innate talents, and your motivation. Someone who is REALLY interested, has a knack for something, and is VERY motivated will do better than people who lack one or more of those qualities.

I wanted to post a very retro photo. This is my paternal grandfather and I, getting ready to attend a group “sweet 16”/society presentation event one of my cousins was in. I had to be dressed formally because I was taking her father’s place for the Father/Daughter dance*; he’s in a tux because...

Rumpelstiltskin Theodoric DonKey

If JMS takes the Who helm, he could easily have a mini B5 reboot as a story arc where the events take place in a pocket dimension within another TARDIS- a shoutout to The Pirate Planet, or a meta-matryoshka plotline.

This reminded me of a particular wake-up call I had a few years ago about the various things we take for granted in so many discussions. I’m a long-time participant in a cooking thread on another board. One day, a legit chef asked me about making gumbo. So I decided to post a recipe in the...

Not the nicest neighbors, though. Might be a step down from Idiot Coworker Jim.