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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
nivek said:
I have my whole weekend this weekend free of work, money making work anyway, as I need to change the brakes on my car tomorrow and change the oil, then sharpen my mower blades and mow the meadow and yard around my house...Chores on Saturday so I can rest and relax on Sunday...

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Another DIYer.

Planning to rebuild the suspension on the old C3 shortly.
Upper and lower control arm bushings, ball joints, shocks. trying to be careful with things that can break my arm or worse.
 
The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
day 3 armed police in high school. my meeting with the principal did not go well. "I don't make policy on the concern of one family" and "I make decisions for the safety and security of my students."
"in light of two shootings the police stay
"your concerns are noted."
sigh..
 
Toroid

Toroid

Founding Member
Review: New ‘Magnum P.I.’ Is Mostly Nostalgia and Testosterone
CBS has a lot to sort out as it faces life without Les Moonves, its longtime chief executive who resigned this month in the face of multiple sexual-harassment allegations. One is whether to remain reboot central, the Dr. Frankenstein of old shows about bros with guns and fast cars.

A new version of the private-eye-in-paradise series “Magnum P.I.” premieres on CBS on Monday, joining “Hawaii Five-0,” “MacGyver” and “S.W.A.T.” in the network’s all-you-can-remember buffet of nostalgia and testosterone. (A new iteration of “Murphy Brown” joins the CBS lineup on Thursday, for your crotchety liberal grandmother.) Like the others, “Magnum P.I.” is sleek, loud and possessed of less personality than the expensive vehicles it shoots up and drives off cliffs.

That’s unfortunate because the original series, which ran from 1980 to 1988, did have a personality. It was silly, superficial and saddled with the attitudes of its time toward women and nonwhite characters. But it had a little post-Vietnam grittiness and raunchiness, a little hard-boiled romanticism and an endearing (if unsophisticated) love of Hong Kong-action-movie styles and poses. And as the Honolulu-based shamus Thomas Magnum, a journeyman actor named Tom Selleck made himself a star on the strength of a twinkling smile and a modest gift for self-deprecating humor.

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It seems likely that the new “Magnum” won’t supply complaisant, mostly blonde bed-mates for its star in the same quantities the original did (“Three French stews!” having been one of Mr. Selleck’s most enthusiastic lines in the 1980 pilot). The new Higgins makes a disapproving meta-reference to “the endless stream of young women who, for reasons passing comprehension, choose to spend their time with you,” probably an indication that Magnum will be spending more time with Higgins.

One thing, however, hasn’t changed: the lack of a native Hawaiian or Asian-American character in the show’s core cast. It’s at least a little surprising given the criticism that Peter Lenkov, who developed “Magnum” with Eric Guggenheim, received over diversity in casting when Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park left his other Hawaii-set show, “Hawaii Five-0.” In “Magnum” you have to go down to what looks to be, at best, the fifth lead, a Honolulu police detective, to find an Asian-American actor. And look fast: The character named Tanaka, played by Sung Kang, in the pilot will be replaced by a character named Katsumoto, played by Tim Kang, in subsequent episodes. So, not exactly central to the show’s conception.

Having spent much of this review looking back to the old “Magnum P.I.,” it’s time to acknowledge that the real reason there’s a new “Magnum” is most likely synergy (and shared production costs) with the rebooted “Hawaii Five-0.” A “Five-0” character, the medical examiner played by Kimee Balmilero, crosses over into the “Magnum” pilot, and there will be more. Under Mr. Lenkov’s supervision, the shows share a high-gloss, production-line finish and an emphasis on joking male faux-vulnerability. (Mr. Knighton, the most engaging performer, is playing a version of Scott Caan’s querulous sidekick from “Five-0.”) There’s no evidence, however, of the old “Magnum” twinkle.
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The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Anger and rage has swept Madison.
without notice. ICE swept up 11 undocumented immigrants.
One was taken out of class at JMM he is only 16. My girls are angry.
The boy is known to both. He was teaching Kate Spanish..
calls to have gov Walker remove ICE from wisconsin.
 
The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
3 to 10 years.. I grew up with Bill Cosby.
I spy, the Cosby show. Jello ads.
Bill never failed to bring a laugh.
it saddens me he is going to jail. Justice is done.
Cosby is 81 he is blind.
and so he most likely die in prison.
alone..
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
The shadow said:
3 to 10 years.. I grew up with Bill Cosby.
I spy, the Cosby show. Jello ads.
Bill never failed to bring a laugh.
it saddens me he is going to jail. Justice is done.
Cosby is 81 he is blind.
and so he most likely die in prison.
alone..
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I grew up with Cosby too. My dad used to play his LP's they were like stand up comedy just on vinyl instead of TV.

I guess he got what he deserved. 3 years does not seem like much when you consider the decades of suffering that he put women through. But, like you say, he is old and probably will not make it out of there so....
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
I am feeling very weak today so I asked my neighbor friend to go to the store for me. When he came back I noticed that he smelled nice and I told him so. I also said I probably smell terrible because I haven't had the strength to shower for two days. He offered to help me shower. I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. lol
 
coubob

coubob

Celestial
michael59 said:
I grew up with Cosby too. My dad used to play his LP's they were like stand up comedy just on vinyl instead of TV.

I guess he got what he deserved. 3 years does not seem like much when you consider the decades of suffering that he put women through. But, like you say, he is old and probably will not make it out of there so....
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my first memory of Crosby was Fat Albert
 
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