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2024 LINE-UP OF `INSPIRING' ENTERTAINMENT

14 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr

  ?2024 ENTERTAINMENT ?   This is a screenshot sampling of 2024 movies available from a streaming service and no, it is not a result from `horror' genre movie search. Given the daily state of stress derived from global conflict of war, political uph...

How Friends Changed Lives – Including Mine

13 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Thatsameoldguy

There's just something kind of magical about a TV show that could make you laugh, cry, and feel like somebody out there got you. In my case, the show was simply Friends. It isn't just any sitcom; it's a real touch to so many lives, which includes min...

That Same Old Guy: Starting My Writing Journey

12 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Thatsameoldguy

Hi there!I’m just that same old guy. Nothing fancy, nothing special. Just a regular guy who’s finally decided to try something new. Writing is something I’ve thought about doing for a long time, but I never really got around to it. Life gets busy, yo...

The Golden Age of Disingenuous Chicanery

10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Isn't that something?  Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns.  Only in L.A."Chinatown   In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge.  It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...

Movie Review: The Hostel (2005)

2 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Hephaistos

Source Hi Friends Last week, after a long break, I shared a review post of the 2009 movie The Road. As is known, since there are not many social activities during the winter months, it is not easy to find topics to write about on HIVE. For this reaso...

Oompa Loompas From The County Hell

26 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the tale of a woke Scrooge who is given a vision of his future.  Woke Scrooge is horrified by the neurotic, demonic depiction of his future self by Johnny Depp, and is relieved to wake up in the body of either...

What Kind Of Pizza Are You?

17 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I avoid all insulting manufactured propaganda events, so when Civil War came out earlier this year, I ignored it.  But it made itself available tonight when I wasn't looking for it.  So, in a moment of morbid curiosity, I watched it.  It isn't garbag...

Top 10 Must-Read Scholarly Articles on The Book Thief

8 Dec 2024 8 minute read 0 comments TAS BROWN

Original Image Source   The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The book begins with a prologue narrated by Death, who introduces himself and the story's main eleme...

Slippers on the Ground (a call to arms & legs)

1 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

This is not a call to arms.  It's a call to arms and legs.  We need slippers on the ground to finance the financing of American Migrant, a Rock & Roll road musical across Mexico starring myself and Denver Williams.  Subscribe to me on Subscribestar f...

Way Beyond The Rainbow

29 Nov 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

To Emily X, Malcolm Y, and Theodore Z, There was rightness with the people at the other place.  It's about $100 cheaper.  Mexico City is at least 4x as expensive as the house I'm being overcharged to live in now.  My neighbor knew I was leaving, and...