Category: Diversions and Distractions
Posts related to hobbies, interests, or activities.
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Postcard: SS Queen Mary
Read more: Postcard: SS Queen MaryContinuing the Postcard series, here is another old postcard from the vault: this time it’s the SS Queen Mary. At 1015.5ft in length and 118ft across, she could accommodate 3200 people and make the Atlantic crossing in 4 days.
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Postcard: Coney Island Cyclone
Read more: Postcard: Coney Island CycloneI have a large postcard collection and thought I’d share a few items. First in the series is the Coney Island Cyclone. Opened to the public on June 26, 1927, the Coney Island Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The Cyclone…
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Halloween 2023 Movie List
Read more: Halloween 2023 Movie ListWhat a list this year! A lot of these I saved-up to specifically watch this Spooky Season and some were fortuitous last-minute additions. This year was also a breakthrough as the girls started watching more scary movies and it’s a lot of fun introducing them to (cult) classics. Abomnibal Dr Phibes (1971) Another Wolfcop (2017)…
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2022 Christmas Movies
Read more: 2022 Christmas MoviesDecided to go on an off-beat Christmas movie jaunt. White Christmas is an old standard which I feel obligated to watch each year (it’s a great movie so it’s not really much of a hardship obligation). Black Christmas is by Bob Clark — the same director who brought us A Christmas Story and Porky’s. American…
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Halloween 2022 Movie List!
Read more: Halloween 2022 Movie List!Here it is all of my loyal fans!! Since I know y’all have been waiting for this, here is the 2022 Spooktober movie list! You’ll notice that it’s not as long as last year’s. I tried to get in 31 days of movies but I couldn’t stay totally horror-focused this year. That being said, we…