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By Mark Zeiger, February 2, 2020

I hear tell some sports teams are doing something considered important today. Once again, we’re ignoring that, but still gathering with friends to eat and watch T.V.

Unlike past years, when we held Austen Fest, (see An Alternative to the Superbowl—Austen Fest and Austen Fest 2018) we’re doing Quirky British Comedies. And by “British,” we mean Irish as well, even though one of our “Irish” selections was actually filmed on the Isle of Man.

Waking Ned Devine, (paid link) an Irish story actually filmed on the Isle of Man (Image: Amazon.com).

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By Mark Zeiger, January 1, 2020

Happy New Year! It’s 2020.

I don’t know about you, but I get a little tired of “year in review” pieces in the news. You can tell that the first stringers are taking time off, no one really wants to report on actual news, so let’s do a review!

Perhaps the view makes a view metaphor: a veiled, yet hopeful future (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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