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A to Z April Challenge [2015]... Are you Ready?

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The A to Z Challenge Starts This Wednesday!
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Thanks for joining the A to Z Challenge. Just some quick reminders before it begins:

Add the badge to your sidebar (so we know you are participating) and link back to the main A to Z Blog – http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

On April 1, blog about a topic that begins with the letter “A.” April 2 is “B,” April 3 is “C,” and so on. No posts on Sundays and we finish with Z on April 30. You can use a theme for the month or go random – just as long as it matches the letter of the alphabet for the day.

We recommend short posts – participants will be trying to visit as many as possible during the Challenge and will likely skip long posts. (100-300 words.)

Please turn off Word Verification! You won’t receive many comments or return visitors otherwise. If you’re concerned about spam, set comments to no anonymous or blog owner approval.

Make it easy for people to follow you. Use Google Friends Connect, Google+, Feedburner or other RSS Feed, Linky Followers, Networked Blogs, etc., and be sure those widgets are located near the top of your sidebar.

When the Challenge begins, visit participants starting with the blog after yours on list. We suggest visiting five new blogs a day and you are welcome to visit more!

Make new friends. Visit those who visit you and leave comments. Return the follows of blogs you enjoy.
 
So are you ready, above some key and important things you will need to know!
-Jeremy [Retro]
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Wow, Just Wow... The Walking Dead: Season 5 Finale! [WARNING SPOILERS!]

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I finally got AMC channel in the last month or so and it allowed me to start watching "The Walking Dead" more frequent... So I did, I have and it was pretty much the same show that I remembered...  Now the end of Season 5, it's glorious 90 minute finale was interesting from the start as favorites return... Some die and oh' no... Not Glenn comes to mind... Though in the end I must say "I didn't see that coming"... great job, my dead faith has returned... I may actually have to become an iZombie Lover again... some may get that, some may not...
-Jeremy [Retro]

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The POWER OF THREE! - A to Z April Challenge [2015]

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I am very fortunate to have these two lovely ladies as my Helpers for the upcoming "A to Z April Challenge [2015]" and I wanted to tell you who they are. First we are known as "LETTER GROUP, INC", since we are dealing with letters it sort of worked out in my head. One of my team is C.M. Brown @ C.M. BOOKS, she helped us out last year and did a awesome job. Robyn @ LIFE IS CHOCOLATE, she rocks and will prove to be a great choice and help. I know what you are thinking how a goof ball like me, got so lucky to be in this group... I am pinching myself. So if you are in my radar for the challenge remember these ladies are ninjas and will help keep an eye on you... :)

-Jeremy [Retro]

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ZOOLANDER 2... Relax It's Going to ROCK!

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Blogging A to Z Challenge [2015] - THEME REVEAL

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Only a few days away and we get the great privilege to share our themes, with those who signed up... I am happy to announce mine will be on the Disney magic... what does that mean? Well you can add me to your friend list here and the Google + to find out... I promise it will be fun, last year I had a MARVEL of a good time.
-Jeremy [Retro]

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Remains of the Day... Bone Daddy!

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Jake and Elwood... the BLUES BROTHERS!

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TONY STARK is IRON MAN!

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Van Damme...

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WALKER STALKER CON [2015] - HIGHLIGHTS







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WALKER STALKER CON CHICAGO
FEBRUARY 21 and 22, 2015
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Photographer: Stephen Bulow
https://www.facebook.com/ssbdigital

Video/Design Coverage: Jeremy Hawkins
Hosted By: Walker-Stalker Con
Coverage by: Howlin’ Wolf Records
http://howlinwolfrecords.com/

Find out More:
http://walkerstalkercon.com/
Twitter @WalkrStalkrCon
https://www.facebook.com/WalkerStalkerConvention
#WSCChicago

All images and video is owned and operated
by Jeremy Hawkins unless other-wised marked.

I had the idea of making the pages into a comic book feel, by making the images well you see. More will be posted on "THE WOLF"
-Jeremy [Retro]


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Facebook Friday... Rock and Roll!

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J - Jethro Tull
E - Erasure
R - RATT
E - Enigma
M - Metallica
Y - Yes

It's okay to use your first names...
-Jeremy [Retro]

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Blogging from A to Z April Challenge "R" is for Rear Window [1954]

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Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest mystery movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked #42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and #48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Again, have you joined the challenge? There is still time... time... time...
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge
-Jeremy [Retro]

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Getting a Clue on Clue [1985]

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Clue is a 1985 American mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival mansion, and is styled after Murder by Death (which also featured Clue star Eileen Brennan) and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery, including The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which also starred Tim Curry. The film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. The film was produced by Debra Hill.


In 1954 New England, against a backdrop of McCarthyism, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion. They are met by the house butler Wadsworth, who reminds them that they have been given pseudonyms to protect their true identity. During dinner, the seventh attendee, Mr. Boddy, arrives. After dinner, Wadsworth takes everyone to the study and reveals the true nature of the party: all of the guests are being blackmailed:

- Professor Plum is a psychiatrist who lost his medical license because he had an affair with a married female patient. He now works for the United Nations' World Health Organization.

- Mrs. Peacock is the wife of a senator who has accepted bribes to deliver her husband's vote. However, she claims she is innocent and she must pay blackmail money to avoid the story being used for a political witch hunt.

- Mrs. White is an alleged black widow who was drawn in to avoid a scandal regarding the mysterious death of her nuclear physicist husband. She was previously married to an illusionist, who also disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

- Miss Scarlet is a madam who operates an illegal brothel and escort service in Washington, D.C.

- Colonel Mustard is thought, at first, to have been blackmailed for scandalous pictures with one of Miss Scarlet's employees, but it is later revealed that he was a war profiteer who made his money from selling stolen radio components on the black market. He now works at the Pentagon, working on a private fusion bomb (which is revealed later in the film).

- Mr. Green has a super secret that would cost him his job with the State Department if it were widely known.
 
Following up with the mysteries...
-Jeremy [Retro]

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Blogging from A to Z April Challenge - B for Yul Brynner

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Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Yuliy Borisovich Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for the film version; he played the role 4,625 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. Earlier, he was a model and television director, and later a photographer and the author of two books.
 
Ha, I fooled you... you thought I made a mistake and started to share my posts for the upcoming A to Z Challenge... Nope I just wanted you to know there is time to join up and be part of the fun... to find out more, please: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/
-Jeremy [Retro]
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Murder by Death's DEATHS!

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Murder by Death is a 1976 American mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.


The plot is a spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, and Sam Spade.

So I was watching this classic film this weekend, it got me to thinking how many of the Murder by Death's cast have died from death... Neil Simon, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers...

Classic WHO-DUN-IT film... so who was the Murderer?
-Jeremy [Retro]

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SPOCK's Cultural Impact!

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Spock has been parodied by, and has also been the inspiration for, pop culture works in various media. Composer/keyboardist George Duke's 1976 Solo Keyboard Album features two tracks which pay homage to Spock: "Spock Gets Funky" and "Vulcan Mind Probe". Rock guitarist Paul Gilbert wrote the song "Mr. Spock" on his Space Ship One album. Swedish synthpop band S.P.O.C.K makes music heavily influenced by the Star Trek universe. Even Nimoy got in on the act; assuming the Spock character, Nimoy recorded a number of novelty songs, the first being "Highly Illogical", in which Spock pointed out the foibles of human thought, such as relationships, automobiles, and greed. The second song, "A Visit to a Sad Planet", was darker in tone and told the story of Spock visiting Earth in the future and discovering it had been ruined by war, violence, and environmental irresponsibility. According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character Shockwave was inspired by Spock.  Spock's utilitarian perspective that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" is cited in a legal decision rendered by the Texas Supreme Court.
-Jeremy [Retro]
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How Many Licks does it Take for a VULCAN to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?


Mr. Spock's name is S'chn T'gai Spock, in case you didn't know... so live long and prosper!
-Jeremy [Retro]
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After Star Trek...

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Following Star Trek in 1969, Nimoy immediately joined the cast of the spy series Mission: Impossible, which was seeking a replacement for Martin Landau. Nimoy was cast in the role of Paris, an IMF agent who was an ex-magician and make-up expert, "The Great Paris". He played the role during seasons four and five (1969–71). Nimoy had strongly been considered as part of the initial cast for the show but remained in the Spock role on Star Trek.

He co-starred with Yul Brynner and Richard Crenna in the Western movie Catlow (1971). He also had roles in two episodes of Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1972 and 1973) and Columbo (1973) where he played a murderous doctor who was one of the few criminals with whom Columbo became angry. Nimoy appeared in various made for television films such as Assault on the Wayne (1970), Baffled! (1972), The Alpha Caper (1973), The Missing Are Deadly (1974), Seizure: The Story Of Kathy Morris (1980) and Marco Polo (1982). He received an Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actor for the television film A Woman Called Golda (1982), for playing the role of Morris Meyerson, Golda Meir's husband opposite Ingrid Bergman as Golda in her final role.

In 1975, Leonard Nimoy filmed an opening introduction to Ripley's World of the Unexplained museum located at Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Fisherman's Wharf at San Francisco, California. In the late 1970s, he hosted and narrated the television series In Search of..., which investigated paranormal or unexplained events or subjects. He also had a memorable character part as a psychiatrist in Philip Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

During this time, Nimoy also won acclaim for a series of stage roles. He appeared in such plays as Vincent (1981), Fiddler on the Roof, The Man in the Glass Booth, Oliver!, 6 Rms Riv Vu, Full Circle, Camelot, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Caligula, The Four Poster, Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, Equus and My Fair Lady.
-Jeremy [Retro]
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Voice Casting: Star Trek: The Animated Series

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The series featured most of the original cast performing the voices for their characters, except for Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), who was omitted because the show's budget could not afford the complete cast. He was replaced by two animated characters who made semi-regular appearances: Lieutenant Arex, whose Edosian species had three arms and three legs; and Lt. M'Ress, a female Caitian. James Doohan and Majel Barrett, besides performing their characters Montgomery Scott and Christine Chapel, performed the voices of Arex and M'Ress, respectively.

Initially, Filmation was only going to use the voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Majel Barrett. Doohan and Barrett would also perform the voices of Sulu and Uhura. Leonard Nimoy refused to sign up to lend his voice to the series unless Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were added to the cast — claiming that Sulu and Uhura were of importance as they were proof of the ethnic diversity of the 23rd century and should not be recast. Nimoy also took this stand as a matter of principle, as he knew of the financial troubles many of his Star Trek co-stars were facing after cancellation of the series.
-Jeremy [Retro]

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