Author: Gabriel
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Checking In PGH This PM
This here is Truck aka Juan Carlos Mercado, born Dec. 4, 2017. I fall asleep and wake up to this face almost daily as he sleeps right beside me. He had a nasty cough starting last weekend so we took him to the Dr. yesterday and she told us it was because his tonsils were…
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Not Sure I Had A Heart Attack
So between Jan. 15 (Mon), to the 19th I suffered chest pains. I was still able to go to work on Tue and Fri AM. The worst of it came on Fri PM as I was coming home Jill suggested and I agreed that I go to hospital where I stayed until Sunday. The feeling…
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Mocha & Thoughts On Beating Fake News
It’s silly to assume Mocha Uson would adhere to journalistic principles simply because her readership doesn’t want that. As long as she provides what her 5M followers want she has no reason to change. Mocha is a cog in the wheel. To understand Mocha one has to study her followers. They are the extreme cynics.…
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Thoughts on Reading ‘My Family’s Slave’
Some thoughts on reading Mr. Alex Tizon’s ‘My Family’s Slave‘. At my age I remember the concept of ‘giving’ children away to other people as either ‘gifts’, as a way to pay debt or as a means of saving children from difficult or impossible lives. I do not consider this uniquely Filipino. I see it…
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Review of Better Call Saul Season 3 – Chicanery; Can You Handle The Truth?!
The show has taken a courtroom drama turn as the legal issues between the brothers are finally threshed out and all in one episode as well. While there had been 3 episodes from the time Chuck managed to tape a confession from Jimmy, this episode closes the issue of Chuck’s attempt to get Jimmy disbarred…
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Review Of Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 4 – Sabrosito
We are given a short backgrounder on Hector Salamanca’s (Mark Margolis) motivations and a history of his feud with Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). It may seem oddly coincidental that he is delivering profits to the charismatic Don Eladio at the same time that Fring’s profits are delivered there too, but we take it all in…
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Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 3 – Sunk Costs
I know I’m very late posting this and am doing so belatedly because I just don’t want to skip it. The two things I remember most are below: A.) Chuck (Michael Mckean) above reminds us all why we hate him. He is condescending in his application of his own self righteous standard onto his brother,…
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Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 2 – Witness
I enjoy shows that have almost no music, so when Mad Men came out I was beyond hooked. Here was a show that not only dared to de – romanticize the ’60s but even goes as far as relying on great camera work and even greater acting to get their point across, sans any music…
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Logan 8.5/10
Of all the comic based movies I’ve got to say the people who make X-Men are the most grounded and downright courageous of them all. To come out with this movie you have had to outright declare war on commercialism and *gasp* go for pure story, pure realism. Grit and truth.
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Selling my beloved 1998 C70
Selling my beloved 1998 C70 • Registered 2014, complete OR / CR • Bought 2010, slowly restored for 5 years • Original parts bought at Triumph Caloocan, ie. seat, fr and rr signal lights, speedo, harness, sub cross plate, seat lock, muffler, fr and rr fender, muffler stay, plate holder, camshaft orig carburetor • 99%…