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Max's Musings

by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2041762

A math guy's random thoughts.

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Raven

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:16am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Happy birthday!! We watched Reacher...last year sometime I think? It's ok if you just don't think too hard about the economics of any of the things the criminals do. Or about circulatory systems.

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:09am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Thanks, Max.

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Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:00am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

--BTW, Regarding Henry is available to rent on Amazon.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:58am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

, I do remember Regarding Henry. You're right--the thematic material is similar. There's a scene where he's amazed to see his daughter tying her shoes and asks "Who taught you that?" She says, "You did."

I remember seeing that scene with my daughter, and I asked her who taught her to tie her shoes. She said, "you did." I have no memory of teaching her, but she did!

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:47am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Your list sounds just like our TV playlist, although my wife doesn't care for Reacher. We love Irrational.

Did you ever see an old movie, Regarding Henry? Harrison Ford stars in this 1991 movie. Very similar to the plot of Doc. Loved that movie. I believe it's time to see if it's streaming anywhere.

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BIG BAD WOLF is Merry

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:40am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Been watching playthroughs of a game called Rimworld. Looks interesting.

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Seabreeze

Feb 26, 2025 at 10:15am
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 26, Melancholy Baby"

Nice. I love just about anything played on a piano.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Feb 7, 2025 at 12:39pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

Allan, that's a nice rendition. Here's another by a group I like.

Allan Charles 🐾

Feb 7, 2025 at 11:33am
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

I absolutely love this song. It gives me goosebumps every time. This is personally my favorite cover of the song:

🐕GeminiGem🎁

Feb 6, 2025 at 3:36pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 6, Come Sail Away"

I became a rabid Styx fan in the early 80's. At one point I had all the vinyl they had released, but those are long gone. I rely on greatest hits CD's or a Styx mix on Spotify. This song comes up often. I always wondered about the line about climbing aboard the starship, but not enough to research it or anything like that, LOL

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February 2, 2025 at 8:15am

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Soundtrack, Feb 2, White Wedding

This isn't going to be the best song on this year's list. It's not even Billy Idol's best song--admittedly a low bar. But it did inspire another story of mine, "Alice's Tale"

. This story is the second of a sequence of tales about a group of college-age stoners on their way to spring break in Fort Lauderdale. In my head, I'm thinking of this as the "Lauderdale Tales." This particular one is based on the Miller's Tale. Drop me a note if you want to read it and I'll send you the passkey.

Anyway, the story is about a snarky ballerina who stays at a B&B on old Route 66 where there happens also to be a "white wedding." The opening pretty much tells you what's coming

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed. Then my journey took me to a white wedding at the Route 66 B&B.

The first sentence is from Rimbaud, BTW. Anyway, it devolves into a kind of farce, appropriate given the source material. The phrase "white wedding" is, of course, supposed to invoke Idol's song, which is an ironic deconstruction of the whole idea of a "white wedding."

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February 2, 2025 at 7:45am

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Soundtrack,Feb 1, Walkin after Midnight

Patsy Cline sang this song in her 1957 appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. She initially didn't care for the song had planned to perform a different piece, but the producers perfered this one by Alan Block and Don Hecht . It went on to become her breakout hit, reaching number two on the Billboard charts. Her interpretation, a bluesy mix of pop and country, became her signature style and the song one of her signature hits.

The song's paean to lonliness inspired this ghost story

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It's lonely to be dead.
#2332001 by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

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