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What's the difference between 'immigrant' and 'emigrant'?

Jesse's backstory is having lost his job w/ the LAPD due to public drunkenness. Despite his age and tarnished record, Jesse is the most experienced on the small Paradise police force.

Another reason ppl might think Jesse Stone is older is the average age of police chiefs in the US is 46, 11 years older than Jesse is first described; however, there's a strong sense Jesse was hired b/c the Paradise town council thought they'd be able to manipulate him.

Meanwhile you move the original FBI to lower-leverage Monday night and use it to help WATSON's and CIA's ratings.

Moving all the NCIS shows back to Tuesday night didn't seem a good ratings move to me, but I think the cancellation of two FBI shows had the most to do w/ it. Losing FBIs, you needed some other shows to stabilize the night. So you slot in the NCISes while making Friday FIRE COUNTRY night.

Jennifer Lagier KARMA “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment t...

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I notice they didn't smile for the photo.

If you're wondering whether something is legal, probably not.

As Fink says, who wants this? Only the AI companies, it seems.

He also serves papers to actress Cynthia Farrell, played by Dana Delany, to whose home he later retreats after the comedian's killers take a run at him. He and Cynthia investigate further and in a tense moment, he proposes marriage.

Last night I posted Al Jarreau and David Sanborn's cover of "Since I Fell For You" was a favorite. I first heard it in the Season 6 premiere of Magnum, wherein Thomas travels to L.A. and gets entangled in the murder of a comedian he met on the flight.

I think Post's incidental music is too similar in MAGNUM, THE A-TEAM, and HUNTER. Oh, well.

In his memoir YOU NEVER KNOW, Tom Selleck says he thought Freebairn-Smith's theme was off from the start and he pushed Don Bellisario to use Mike Post's theme in the opening creds, as it was already the incidental music in the episodes proper. Bellisario acquiesced.

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If you've never heard the first MAGNUM P.I. theme, here it is, and get off my lawn:

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Ian Freebairn-Smith Dies: Grammy Winning ‘A Star Is Born’ Arranger, Prolific TV & Film Composer Was 93 Ian Freebairn-Smith, the Grammy-winning arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1976 hit “Evergreen” and composer of TV scores died October 7. He was 93.

Maybe best known for the first MAGNUM P.I. theme, Freebairn-Smith also worked on Charlie Brown and THE MUPPET SHOW and composed episodes of CAGNEY & LACEY and AIRWOLF.

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"What's the best one-liner in movie-history?"

No Profanity: "I'm Batman."

Profanity: "Yippee ki-yay, m'fer!"

My most unhinged literary opinion?

Literary/Literature is a genre of fiction and, as such, has that in common w/ all other genres of fiction.

"Did ppl really memorize phone numbers before cell phones?"

A few, maybe. We also phone books and personal "little black books." We got by.

Italian More Worthy of an American Holiday than Columbus: Mario Mario of Mario Bros.

Italian More Worthy of an American Holiday than Columbus: Garry Marshall

Italian More Worthy of an American Holiday than Columbus: Ettore Boiardi

Honorable Mention Favorite Cover Songs: "When You Say Nothing at All" by Alison Krauss

"I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany

"Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes

"Since I Fell for You" by Al Jarreau and David Sanborn

Favorite Cover Song: "The Tide is High" by Blondie.

Want a stimulating exercise? Kettlebell gorilla cleans. As you lower one bell, you clean the other. No setting one or both down. You rest when you tire out.

If Trump had integrity or compassion, it would have shown by now. Instead we have someone we all saw incite insurrection, who's been adjudged a sex criminal and a business cheat, who delayed the courts so he'd have a shot at a 2nd term w/ the primary goal of avoiding prison time.

TV POTUS Martin Sheen advises Trump to start speaking from his heart and being human. I've never had the impression Trump ISN'T speaking from his heart, that he's being phony. The problem is Trump is at heart a bad guy. He doesn't have a more polite and socially-acceptable gear.

Exploring making a three-quarter self-portrait w/ Inkscape. Below is the front-facing cartoon I use on my personal blog.

On LIVE WITH KELLY & MARK this morning, Kelly announced Columbus Day to no applause. "and Indigenous Peoples Day" got the applause.

Right on, New York City.

Trump musing eternity, speculating he probably isn't going to heaven, is an excuse for him to do whatever hellish things he wants.

Two brief power outages between 5:30-6:30 this morning. I was able to shut my PC down w/ its battery backup. I left it off a few hours and dusted its innards. Hey, why not?

#Noreaster