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• IF THIS ISN’T SERENDIPITY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS – by Tom Curley

  By tomcurley1 on 02/17/2023 • ( 7 )

  

  This blog is about serendipity. Not because it’s on a blog called Serendipity, Seeking Intelligent Life On Earth (the last part is asking a lot). It’s about actual serendipity. The dictionary defines the word Serendipity this way: “The occurrence and… Read More ›

• WAR STORIES: BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF MEDIA – PART 1

  By tomcurley1 on 02/14/2023 • ( 22 )

  

  Produced by the amazing Tom Curley, with Garry Armstrong, legendary news reporter. Behind the scenes, Marilyn Armstrong, as General Dogsbody & Serendipity Producer. I was going to hold off on posting this until I could schedule a bunch of them,… Read More ›

• THE RIDDLE OF THE SHIP OF THESEUS SOLVED! By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 10/05/2022 • ( 21 )

  

    For some reason I’ve been thinking about the riddle of The Ship of Theseus. At this point, many of you are thinking: “What the hell is he talking about?” It’s about a famous philosophical thought experiment. I’ll let Wikipedia… Read More ›

• HORSES & THEIR SILVER SCREEN COWBOYS – TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 08/15/2022 • ( 21 )

  

  Marilyn and Garry wrote a blog a while back about watching one of their favorite movies, “Rustler’s Rhapsody.” It’s also one of my favorite movies. They introduced it to me. I’ve seen it dozens of times and I  love introducing… Read More ›

• THE POWER OF THE WEENIE – TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 08/12/2022 • ( 4 )

  You can’t use the word “p#rn” on Google because as everyone knows, Google is so carefully-regulated and selective about who publishes on their site, one need never worry about what one might see there. It’s the word, NOT the subject… Read More ›

• GET OFF MY LAWN – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 07/01/2022 • ( 3 )

  

  FLASH! NEW PODCAST ON THE WAY! Hello everybody. I know it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog here on Serendipity.  I could come up with a number of reasons. I ran out of ideas for a blog. Hmmm,… Read More ›

• SWITCHING REALITIES -TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 06/10/2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 10th Ah the memories this post brings especially while the January 6th hearings are in progress. We thought Trump was merely vicious and had no respect for law. We didn’t know he was ready to stage… Read More ›

• THE STUPID IS STRONG IN THIS COUNTRY – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 06/04/2022 • ( 24 )

  

  A Friday Flashback on Saturday One of the iconic scenes in the movie Star Wars, the first one. Episode 4. “A New Hope” is where Obi-Wan Kanobi is taking Luke Skywalker and his two droids R2D2 and C3PO into town… Read More ›

• GUN SENSE, GUNS, AND GUNSMOKE BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 05/28/2022 • ( 6 )

  A REBLOG AS FRESH AS THE DAY IT WAS WRITTEN. IT’S ABOUT A SHOOTING IN TEXAS – FIVE YEARS AGO. I can no longer count all the mass shootings in this country. We’re still into serious protesting about the February… Read More ›

• MAR-A-LAGO: MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH – TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 11/13/2021 • ( 2 )

  

  This should be LONG out of date, but given the news last night of how many places are again bouncing back UP into COVID, we aren’t where we should be and maybe we never will be.  You might think by… Read More ›

• KAFKA AND DIRECT TV – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 09/03/2021 • ( 8 )

  I’ve had Optimum cable as my TV, telephone and internet service for years. My cell phone provider was Verizon. I had no complaints. Everything worked fine and life was good. Then Ellin and I decided we should try to cut… Read More ›

• JUST KEEP WALKING – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 08/12/2021 • ( 7 )

  

  This blog is a departure from what I usually write about, which is how we live in an apocalyptic ’B’ movie that nobody would believe if it wasn’t actually happening. This is my favorite kind of story. A story about… Read More ›

• SILVER SCREEN COWBOYS AND THEIR HORSES – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 08/05/2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Marilyn and Garry wrote a blog a while back about watching one of their favorite movies, “Rustler’s Rhapsody.” It’s also one of my favorite movies. They introduced it to me. I’ve seen it dozens of times and I  love introducing… Read More ›

• THE TALE OF THE LAST BABY ASPIRIN – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 07/18/2021 • ( 22 )

  

  This is a children’s story, a children’s story for older people. Once upon a time, there was a bottle of baby aspirin. It contained a few hundred baby aspirins. They didn’t know they were in an aspirin bottle. They didn’t… Read More ›

• NEWS NEVER CHANGES: GUN SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 06/25/2021 • ( 5 )

  Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 25th Given the state of the state, this seemed pretty relevant. I can look through the posts on Serendipity over the months and years and instead of becoming outdated — because we fixed it — or at least moved… Read More ›

• COMEDY, COMEDIANS AND COMEDIC RANGE – TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 06/03/2021 • ( 5 )

  

  I love comedy. I always have. When I was a kid and got a transistor radio, I didn’t care much for all the songs about love and romance. I loved the novelty songs. The silly songs. I grew up worshiping… Read More ›