The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Pop Culture
Let that be your last apple pie
Do you figure that on better days on Cheron, Lokai and Bele would have eaten this? Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Anti-Semitic religious Catholic hypocrite an out-of-wedlock dad
Mel Gibson, the Catholic so religious that he belongs to a sect that refuses to acknowledge Vatican II, had a daughter out of wedlock with his current girlfriend. (His wife of 30 years is divorcing him, another Catholic no-no.) This, … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Pop Culture, Religion
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Five Things That Scare me
Normally, I embrace opinions. I traffic in opinions. After all, I’m a blogger. Opinions have been good to yours truly. But if there’s anything scaring me these days, it’s the blatant use of celebrity opinions with regard to [the correct … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture
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Soupy Sales: No more pie in the face
Soupy Sales died yesterday. A childhood icon is no more. His greatest success came in New York with “The Soupy Sales Show” — an ostensible children’s show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales’ … Continue reading
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Calling all monster movie fans
I give up. I have no idea what monster the Lego in the fourth picture here is supposed to be. New monster movies are not a favorite genre of mine. I can handle the old 1950s ones, but I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
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The Polanski case: It’s the consent, stupid
It’s really not difficult. The Polanski case comes down to one thing: Consent. A 13-year-old girl cannot consent to having sex with a 44-year-old man. In fact, a 13-year-old girl is not old enough to consent to having sex with … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Pop Culture
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Reviewing a few new shows
Flash Forward: You know how when Lost premiered, the pilot was so well done, so incredibly gripping, that you knew immediately that ABC had a hit on its hands and that you couldn’t wait for Wednesday to come around? Yeah, … Continue reading
Two sad losses: Mary Travers and Henry Gibson
So sad. But I didn’t know they were both in their seventies! Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary is gone. No more Puff the Magic Dragon. Or any of the sixties protest songs that I still love to hear, … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Television
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Megashark vs. Giant Octopus: Yeah, I watched it
Remember this? SciFi SyFy had it on last weekend. I put it on the DVR, and Sarah and the kids came over today to watch it. Some notable lines: “Don’t love the sea too much. It won’t love you back.” … Continue reading
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Monday SNB
Hamas getting confident; shelling Israel again: More shells into Israel. But when mortars are fired from Gaza into Israel, the mainstream media doesn’t pick it up until Israel fires back. Hamas’ pre-emptive strike at the UN See if you can … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Holocaust, Israel, News Briefs, Pop Culture
Tagged Hamas, Israel, Madonna
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Thursday SNB
He will fart in your general direction: Nicholas Sarkozy is threatening “severe” new sanctions on Iran if it doesn’t stop enriching uranium and trying to get the bomb. Yeah, like we haven’t heard that before. No! Not the dreaded letter … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Lebanon, News Briefs, Pop Culture
Tagged Ellie Greenwich, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Pop Music
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Thursday SNB
Oh, so THAT’s why HRW released a report about Hamas: So they could accuse Israel of more war crimes. I was thinking it was more to do with being caught trying to bash Israel to the Saudis so they could … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israeli Double Standard Time, Movies, News Briefs, Politics
Tagged Hezbollah
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How many of my readers are Dollhouse fans?
And how many of you bought the DVDs and watched episode 13? Because, yikes—I think it was the best thing I’ve ever seen from Joss Whedon. Including my favorite Firefly and Buffy episodes.