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The Mets did it again, with Endy Chavez driving in the winning run in the bottom of the 13th to give the Mets a 1-0 win!

It's just too bad Pedro Martinez didn't get the win, after pitching 8 scoreless innings.

Anyone see Tuesday night's Mets game? After 5 hours and 22 minutes, the Mets finally pulled it out, with Beltran hitting a walk-off homer in the bottom of the16th.

The Mets have played 44 games this season and most of them have been nail-biters. I just wish they could just win one by a comfortable margin and in 9 innings!

I have a new favorite exploitation/ porn director, and his name is Radley Metzger.

According to the dvd extras, Metzger started as a film editor, editing the trailers for art-house distributor Janus films. I just learned from the imdb, he also edited one of my favorite B sci fi movies, 1964's "The Flesh Eaters."

The picture I just saw, "The Dirty Girls," also from '64,...
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Just watched "King Creole," which is definitetly one of Elvis' best pictures. Unlike a lot of the bad Elvis movies, it doesn't have many scenes that are just excuses for Elvis to sing. It actually has a pretty compelling story.

Elvis' character, Danny Fisher, is a young hustler from the wrong side of the tracks trying to find a career for himself while avoiding getting...
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I finally decided what to do in the second act of my screenplay "Bordetown." The script's main plot: A private detective working out of La Frontera, a US/Mexican border hamlet, gets to the bottom of a Mexican version of the JFK assassination.

As the second act begins, it is the the eve of the US drug certification/decertification and Mexican drug csar/drug trafficker General Osorio is...
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I just watched "Seven Days in May," John Frankenheimer's film version of the Fletcher Knebel, Charles W. Bailey bestseller about an attempted military coup in the United States. The Kennedy administration cooperated fully with the producers, permitting the cast and crew, among other things, to stage a riot outside the White House gates. It seems, the administration was so cooperative because JFK was a big...
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What's going on in SG-land? In the last few days, two people rejected my friend requests and one long-time friend dropped me from her friends list. I used to think I think I was pretty likable, but now I'm starting to question my likablity.

Just finished "Live and Let Die," Ian Fleming's second novel. It contains some interesting ideas. I especially liked the idea of the villain, Mr. Big, fostering the belief throughout the black criminal underworld that he's the zombie of Baron Samedi, in Voodoo, the loa (spirit) of the dead. In real life, Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's self-proclaimed "President for Life," used the belief that he was...
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Anyone else take that Jeopardy online contestant test? I took it last night. I think I did ok, though I did blank on a couple of questions. Not sure I passed. We'll see.

I was thinking I should go down to the auditions for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" It tapes in New York and, chances are, you'll win more money. Plus they ask...
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I just registered for Jeopardy!'s online contestant test. They're having it next week, March 28-30. If you want to sign up too--and you do have to register ahead of time--go to the official Jeopardy! web site for details: Jeopardy!.

I'm confident that, if I make it onto the show, I can win. Anyway, I'd love to try.

Did you ever consider what would you would do if you could found your own country? What if you could start anew, avoiding other countries' mistakes?

The problem with existing countries, it seems to me, is they have too many laws. Some law regulates every conceivable human activity. Well, maybe not crapping. Come to think of it, Iran probably has a law governing crapping, since...
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I don't know about you, but l'm sick of hearing from Karl Rove and others about how everything is different in the post-9/11 world. I grew up in the 1970s, and I'm here to tell you, back then, you couldn't open a paper or turn on the news without hearing about some atrocity committed by the PLO, the IRA, the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the...
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