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The Hol­ly­wood craft of the stunt­man should never go unno­ticed. These men and women shed blood and tears to con­vey a sense of lumi­nous dan­ger on screen. If the par­tic­u­lar movie needs a race car that meets its end in the final (…)

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My offi­cial Hob­bit name is: Fas­tolph Loams­down of Deep­hal­low .. and my Elvish name is: Lólindir Car­nesîr I can pro­nounce the first one, but the sec­ond — well, I’m sure I’m mess­ing up the “cor­rect” pro­nun­ci­a­tion. In my mind it’s some­thing like (…)

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My nick­name in high school was “Won­der Bread”. It was given to me much like an Indian boy becomes a man in his tribe. Instead of “Running-in-the-Wind-with-Ducks”, I was named Won­der Bread and car­ried the nick through­out the next few years. The (…)

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Remem­ber the Holo­gram Time Trav­eler arcade that made it’s appear­ance in arcades in the early 90s? Well, I do. I can remem­ber search­ing through my pock­ets for tokens to oper­ate this machine. For its time, it was pretty amaz­ing. It uti­lized early (…)

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