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All of my life I have wanted a Magical Eight Ball.

I do not know why it has taken so long but I just got one and it sits right next to me.

Just in time for the election season.

I just asked what chance Hillary Clinton has in the election.

It says "Outlook Good".

Enough said.

The answers are diverse.

I think that in the old days there were mostly yes or no answers but I don't really remember.

What I do remember is the excitement that surrounded seeing one.

Some other kids had one I think. Maybe not.

I know that I always checked them out at the drug store where they were sold. My first job was in that store and so I got a daily dose of answers.

I never got jaded.

It is sitting right here. I plan to use it regularly.

Any questions?

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You gotta know I would do it if I lived there.

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I came a little late to hear this kind of music for real.

But it was still around through the Thirties.

The style of the videos is very much like the musical shorts that were still playing when I was a kid.

Many thanks to Kelvin for pointing this video out.

You can continue on your own if you like this one. Just watch the "next" that comes up at the end.

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John saw a guy in the gym using one of these masks today.

Elevation Training Mask

It can also be used to hype your training. Read the comments.

If I were still running and in my fifties I would definitely use this. Faddist that I am.

If you want to see the how it looks which is the main thing, here it is.

Why do I get the idea that this might be part of some SandM paraphernalia? I will have to check in with some of my resources on this.

I have no intention of using it so don't start writing to me about it.

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Ellen has a thing to say to the homophobes.

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Today's movie was a DVD of an aborted television series starring Lewis Black.

It isn't very good but he is.

There are a lot of jokes and a few guests and it moves pretty fast.

I couldn't watch it all in one sitting but one more and I will have seen the entire series. It didn't last long.

Black has a unique power to make fun of the untouchable, the outrageous.

He is helped here with a few other comedians.

As a television show it is not the best showing of Black but it is still funny and enjoyable to see.

I will not look at it again, I am sure. But I had a good time.

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A holiday tradition every year for almost 30 years.

The story here.

Darlene Love's Last Letterman Christmas

It is a great tradition. I don't or didn't watch Letterman but this got shown on YouTube forever. I love that it is in one place.

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No movie yesterday.

Just good ol' Lewis Black with a lot of laughs. Sardonic laughter. The best kind.

sardonic: [sahr-don-ik] Spell Syllables Synonyms Examples Word Origin adjective 1. characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.

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This is fun.

People Magazine's sexiest man for this year.

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I liked this a lot.

It is quite unusual to have access to any Cirque de Soliel production at no cost. Just sayin'.

These are quadcopters. Something new. And wonderful in the right hands. I want one.

The making of....

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This is the funniest thing I have seen today.

Maybe this week.

Don't fuck with Mickey.

And they took his hat with them too.

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Defined.

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There are these acronyms all the time. I have to GLTU (go look them up).

Take MRW. OK. Right now I know this means "my reaction when".

But in about two minutes I will forget and will have to run to the UD. Urban Dictionary.

Then there is MFW (my face when). Huh?

Isn't it tiresome for these people to remember ATS (all this shit)?

It is WMT (wasting my time).

Now, you are going to say that these things are so around so all the time that I should be learning them.

Well, I am SFN (so fucking not)!

I know that BITD (back in the day) I probably had the same thing going. The double talk. The codes.

MIASS (man I am so sorry)!

MB (my bad).

I don't like cliche expressions like that. So lame. Substitutes for actual talking and writing.

LLL (lazy lazy lazy)you guys. Another one "you guys". OK (that is an oldie. It doesn't mean anything! Okie Dokie. Oook). So I know. This is NN (nothing new).

JS (just sayin').

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Oh, go take a look at this.

Time Management

I read all of this.

It satisfies all my own compulsive need to have a routine and suggests that I could become famous too.

You don't suppose this is made up, do you?

Laphams Quarterly. I will have to look into this publication.

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I used to think of myself as a star at the NYTimes Crossword Puzzle.

I loved them. I was in love. Living on the road made them a way to stay "at home". Unrequited love sometimes but still.

I did the Sunday Magazine puzzle in ink. Ostentatiously. On airplanes and in general public areas.

I would rarely fail to finish. And no peeking either.

I had friends who worked it as well and, if I wasn't careful, would call each other with unsubtle feelers to see if they had done theirs.

Then we moved west. No hard copy Times. Well, there are but we didn't want to pay that much for it.

The local paper, as many locals do, carried the NYTimes puzzles on syndication, the same days, a week late. But no Sunday.

So I did them for awhile.

Then, we hated the paper so we quit getting it and that was that.

I went on line and, in those days, it wasn't all that friendly. And it was very expensive. I think 90 plus dollars a year for the daily download.

Slowly but surely, I stopped doing them. Other things came up. End of story.

Then about 6 months ago I started doing the 7 Little Puzzles. It soon became a daily affair. This has little relation to crosswords except that the same mind's eye approach is helpful. How can I explain. Groups of letters form in the minds eye and full words are "seen". This is a fundamental almost intuitive product of crosswords. An eye for it.

There is the mind of course. I am well read. I always look the meaning of words up. I do not skip over. The Kindle, incidentally, is ideal for this because you merely touch the word and there is the dictionary definition.

Anyway, 7 Little Words got me into yearning for the NYT crossword. The big leagues.

Earlier this week there was a promotion. The puzzles for 19.95 a year because I subscribe to the Times on line edition. A real bargain.

And it is very friendly.

Easy to use. Hard to cheat. Very cleverly constructed web site.

So here I am again.

I am rusty. The puzzles increase in difficulty from Monday through Thursday with Thursday being tougher than any.

Friday is mid-level and Saturday is almost always "witty", a fun puzzle.

Then Sunday.

I am OK now up to Wednesday. Thursday killed me.

But I am taking it easy. No rush. It is fun.

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Is it a ship or a boat?

Norwegian Coast Guardsmen risk, well, who knows?

Pretty fucking outrageous though.

Funny and, well, pretty sexy too.

Too bad, they took it down. I figure the guys wouldn't get away with it. Or, they discovered they had a ton of sudden gay fans. Or recruits to the Norwegian Coast Guard.

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Answer

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