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Gerald So
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Here for friends and to promote projects like The Five-Two: https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/ and Fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org Also https://masto.ai/@sogerald posting to writing hashtags.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · Feb 6
Previously on My Life Called So, in March '23, I quit Twitter and have been on Mastodon alone until today. Here, I'll chat w/ friends and promote projects. (I don't want to use Masto mods' limited resources for my BSP.) I also still blog, mainly at geraldso.blogspot.com.
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Personal blog of Gerald So, poet, writer, editor, moderator, reviewer, stories, books, TV, film.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 3d
Oct. 13-19 at The Five-Two #Crime #Poetry weekly, "Karma" by Jennifer Lagier

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KARMA “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment t...
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 12h
"Perplexity AI" sounds more confounding than helpful. Did AI generate the name?
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 19h
I don't have a Halloween display name, but here's Halloween-themed flash fiction I blogged in 2008. (I did just now cut a couple of lines.)

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You're welcome to comment on the blog or Like this post if you like the story.
Halloween Flash Fiction
Personal blog of Gerald So, poet, writer, editor, moderator, reviewer, stories, books, TV, film.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 16h
NCIS: ORIGINS sets up chemistry btwn Gibbs and Lala, but NCIS fans know Gibbs doesn't end up w/ Lala. He ends up w/ three ex-wives (played by Melinda McGraw, Kathleen York, and Jeri Ryan). There's suspense if you've never seen NCIS, but if that's so, would you watch ORIGINS?
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 16h
Too many series are anxious to show links from the past to the character's known future: SMALLVILLE, KRYPTON, etc.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 16h
This was a reaction article to the NCIS: ORIGINS Season 2 premiere: What does Lala's survival mean and what dilemma does it create for Gibbs?

My issue w/ prequel series is, knowing where the main character ends up, there's not much room to play w/ his backstory.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 16h
There's a TV article to the effect, "What does [series supporting regular]'s survival mean and what dilemma does it create for [series lead]?"

Series regulars surviving is a good thing, not a problematic one.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 19h
Some sites say there will be 20 episodes of NCIS: SYDNEY for Season 3. I approve, but are Australian TV seasons that long? Has SYDNEY gotten short seasons up to now?
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 19h
I don't have a Halloween display name, but here's Halloween-themed flash fiction I blogged in 2008. (I did just now cut a couple of lines.)

geraldso.blogspot.com/2008/10/hall...

You're welcome to comment on the blog or Like this post if you like the story.
Halloween Flash Fiction
Personal blog of Gerald So, poet, writer, editor, moderator, reviewer, stories, books, TV, film.
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What's the difference between 'immigrant' and 'emigrant'?
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Jesse's backstory is having lost his job w/ the LAPD due to public drunkenness. Despite his age and tarnished record, Jesse is the most experienced on the small Paradise police force.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Another reason ppl might think Jesse Stone is older is the average age of police chiefs in the US is 46, 11 years older than Jesse is first described; however, there's a strong sense Jesse was hired b/c the Paradise town council thought they'd be able to manipulate him.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 4d
Correction: According to the synopsis of the Coleman sequel COLORBLIND, the man who turns out to be Jesse's son is "twenty-something," which can be as high as 29, older for ppl in their 30s trying to deny their age. Even if Jesse were 18 when he impregnated a girlfriend, that would make him 38 now.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 4d
Has Jesse Stone grown older than Spenser? Stone was introduced at 35 in NIGHT PASSAGE, Spenser at 37 in THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT; however, Spenser stopped at "middle-aged" while Reed Farrel Coleman's sequels gave Jesse an 18-21 year-old son.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Meanwhile you move the original FBI to lower-leverage Monday night and use it to help WATSON's and CIA's ratings.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Moving all the NCIS shows back to Tuesday night didn't seem a good ratings move to me, but I think the cancellation of two FBI shows had the most to do w/ it. Losing FBIs, you needed some other shows to stabilize the night. So you slot in the NCISes while making Friday FIRE COUNTRY night.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
I notice they didn't smile for the photo.
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It has been 20 years since Daniel Craig was announced as the sixth James Bond
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
If you're wondering whether something is legal, probably not.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
As Fink says, who wants this? Only the AI companies, it seems.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
He also serves papers to actress Cynthia Farrell, played by Dana Delany, to whose home he later retreats after the comedian's killers take a run at him. He and Cynthia investigate further and in a tense moment, he proposes marriage.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Last night I posted Al Jarreau and David Sanborn's cover of "Since I Fell For You" was a favorite. I first heard it in the Season 6 premiere of Magnum, wherein Thomas travels to L.A. and gets entangled in the murder of a comedian he met on the flight.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
I think Post's incidental music is too similar in MAGNUM, THE A-TEAM, and HUNTER. Oh, well.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
In his memoir YOU NEVER KNOW, Tom Selleck says he thought Freebairn-Smith's theme was off from the start and he pushed Don Bellisario to use Mike Post's theme in the opening creds, as it was already the incidental music in the episodes proper. Bellisario acquiesced.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
If you've never heard the first MAGNUM P.I. theme, here it is, and get off my lawn:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmCd...
Theme from Magnum - Ian Freebairn-Smith
YouTube video by TV1966
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe best known for the first MAGNUM P.I. theme, Freebairn-Smith also worked on Charlie Brown and THE MUPPET SHOW and composed episodes of CAGNEY & LACEY and AIRWOLF.

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Ian Freebairn-Smith Dies: Grammy Winning ‘A Star Is Born’ Arranger, Prolific TV & Film Composer Was 93
Ian Freebairn-Smith, the Grammy-winning arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1976 hit “Evergreen” and composer of TV scores died October 7. He was 93.
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 2d
"What's the best one-liner in movie-history?"

No Profanity: "I'm Batman."

Profanity: "Yippee ki-yay, m'fer!"
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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 2d
My most unhinged literary opinion?

Literary/Literature is a genre of fiction and, as such, has that in common w/ all other genres of fiction.