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YouTube video by 11db11 Mannix Theme (Intro & Outro)

The lesser-known, first Magnum theme reminds me of Lalo Schifrin's Mannix theme. Intentionally similar?

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Both don't exactly say P.I. crime show to me.

YouTube video by TV1966 Theme from Magnum - Ian Freebairn-Smith

I esp. like that the Rockford theme isn't your typical crime show theme. If you didn't know it was for a P.I. show, you might not think it was for a P.I. show.

Whereas the Magnum themes are action show from the jump.

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I like how closely the new Rockford reboot seems to be sticking to the original. I'm still unsure the theme music should carry over. That's just sentiment talking. The themes carried over for HAWAII FIVE-O and SWAT. Why not Rockford? Have Mike Post do a LAW & ORDER update of the theme if you must.

Dental trouble / Spiritual warfare Sarah Weinman on Epstein’s dentist, and S.I. Rosenbaum talks with religious freedom defender Mikey Weinstein

For my debut at @flaminghydra.com, which I have just joined, I wrote about the utter weirdness of finding out your dentist was in the Epstein Files. flaminghydra.com/issue-514/

"Based on the 1974–1980 series, The Rockford Files follows a wrongfully convicted, laid-back ex-con who works as a [P.I.] solving 'cold' cases from his Malibu trailer while carefully avoiding violence and entanglements with the LAPD."

Sounds promisingly like they're not fixing what wasn't broken.

NBC Pilot "The Rockford Files" Looking for Featured Veterans | Casting Calls at allcasting allcasting ● Casting Website - Casting Calls for Everyone

More Rockford reboot pilot extras casting info:

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This call is looking for veterans to play veterans attending a support group.

Today is Nat'l Grammar Day. I'm open to poems of crimes against grammar. Or, if you find grammar overly restrictive, poems about breaking free of grammar.

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Looking to load up on new poems that will run in April, Nat'l Poetry Month.

Excellent return of Bishop episode of #NCIS last night. Dialogue was especially sharp.

AI should be as illegal as anything else used to commit fraud.

SCOTUS refused to review a ruling establishing that AI art can't be copyrighted b/c it has no human author. The same ought to be established for AI writing, as writing is an art.

Today is Nat'l Grammar Day. I'm open to poems of crimes against grammar. Or, if you find grammar overly restrictive, poems about breaking free of grammar.

poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...

Looking to load up on new poems that will run in April, Nat'l Poetry Month.

"Based on the 1974–1980 series, The Rockford Files follows a wrongfully convicted, laid-back ex-con who works as a [P.I.] solving 'cold' cases from his Malibu trailer while carefully avoiding violence and entanglements with the LAPD."

Sounds promisingly like they're not fixing what wasn't broken.

NBC Pilot "The Rockford Files" Looking for Featured Veterans | Casting Calls at allcasting allcasting ● Casting Website - Casting Calls for Everyone

More Rockford reboot pilot extras casting info:

allcasting.com/castingcall/...

This call is looking for veterans to play veterans attending a support group.

Publishing oneself is an achievement, but self-publishers typically have to put more time, effort, and money into quality of publication than traditionally-published authors. That additional investment may leave you w/ less reward, ultimately making it all worth less to you.

I should add: My definition of writing success is submitting work to a market and being accepted and published.

You may define it by monetary, awards, or fame milestones, but those are only in play after publication and less in your control if at all.

Five months in and still looking for work. Game writing would be great, but I've also got 30 years software QA management experience with waterfall and agile.

So, if you need someone who can write with a strong tech background and can work with teams across multiple continents, I might be your guy.

Writers' most important trait is hard work and rejection doesn't dissuade them. Their vision/goal of success-when-all-is-said-and-done is worth all the time and work they put in. Ditto actors and athletes.

It's very helpful to writers to take editing jobs. Looking at strangers' work, you can see why it does or doesn't fit a particular publication. From there, you can read your own work more objectively and improve it until it meets the standard.

Rejection/failure surprises b/c writers don't expect to be rejected/fail. When we submit, we believe we've done everything required to be accepted/published. After all, why submit if you haven't done everything?

Similarly athletes train and expect to win. They don't go in w/ a losing attitude.

I think writers are very confident they will succeed. I think it's natural in writers to believe their work will be accepted/published. That's part of what it takes to be a writer, similar to actors believing against the odds they will land paying acting jobs.

Why Are We So Surprised By Failure? Hey friends, I talk about my failures a lot. I am not shy to tell you about the books I wrote that didn't sell, the queries I passed on that later became best sellers for other agents. When I make a ...

When it comes to writing and publishing, why are we so surprised by failure?

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Jon Beavers To Star Opposite Emily Deschanel In NBC Crime Drama Pilot From Dean Georgaris & John Fox Jon Beavers has been set to star opposite Emily Deschanel in the untitled NBC pilot from Dean Georgaris & John Fox.

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To be fair, though, you can straight out say "lie" when it's legally determined. News outlets often report long before things are definitively determined.

If Senators can say "lie," news outlets shouldn't soften to "falsehood" and "untruth."

Bouchercon folks! Voting for the 2026 Anthony Awards? Please consider WHERE THE BONES LIE for paperback original! Meg Gardiner called it “a road trip into California’s gleaming, seething underbelly… a heady ride!”

I'm thinking of folding a slice of pizza around a hot dog. Someone talk me out of it.

Burger King also had the Chicken Specialty Sandwich long before McDonald's had anything chicken.

"It's too late, baby, now. It's too late, though we really did try to make it."

I preferred Burger King b/c they had the Bacon Double Cheeseburger decades before McDonald's put bacon on any of their burgers.

I don't know. Why can't the Big Mac be the best burger at McDonald's? Why is the Big Arch necessary? If I have to spend $10 on a burger I can go to Red Robin.

There's nothing concrete yet that Amazon MGM's first Bond movie will be good, but the creative team they've assembled is promising. if the director were unproven and the writer hadn't written espionage movies, I'd be less optimistic.