All the planning in the world to drop a new post the week the sequel was released failed. I had 36 years to do this. I even had time to collect all the books. But, better late than never, so here goes my two Beetlejuice stories.
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Way Out Wacky Races
What a summer of Wacky Races. We watched all the original series and all of the 2019 Boomerang Series as well. We also ventured across Arkansas ourselves to pick up our Count Car. I also still need to put together a post on Motor Movie Madness about all the racing films that came along in the vein of The Great Race.
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The Tale of The Count Car
In the late 1980s they held a little parade in my hometown. Looking back now I wonder how they shutdown the only farm to market road through town to have it, but it was (and is) a small town. At one of those parades I saw a car that I immediately loved and wanted. There was no other place to drive this kind of vehicle other than the main highway or dirt roads and neither of those were going to do the car or the driver very much good. But, I kept wanting it, nonetheless.
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Past Blog Regression
Today marks the thirteenth year since I first started throwing my thoughts, misspellings, and run-on sentences out into the digital world. I have to update several pieces of the “about me” section on here, but before I did that I wanted to take a look back on all the versions that have been on the various scrapes I began, and abandoned, before.
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A Dilly of a Birthday
A Whingdingdilly, anyway. I have been off the posts now for too long, with several that need to be written to conclude some chapters of life, but when I realized that today is the anniversary of my very first foray into blogging I ditched all of those self-reflective essays in favor of something more fun, and a far more important anniversary: today is Bill Peet’s birthday!
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Garfield
Now we are down to school break and semester rotations. Wrapping up the Smurfs anniversary Garfield gets the exhibit treatment. Mostly from watching the old cartoon and reading the books we have.
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Smurfs at 65
Beakman and Ms. Frizzle was constant company for almost a year. But when school was out he wanted to change things up. We had been reading some old smurfs books and watching the old and new cartoons so he picked the Smurfs.
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The Circus Ship
Recently a friend of mine posted they had dropped in on their child’s first grade class as the guest reader for the day. He read The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen. He mentioned it was one of their favorites so I hopped over to some used book sites to see if we could pick one up.
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Beakman’s World & The Magic School Bus
Just a month after turning four he had plans for his first exhibit. Beakman’s World and The Magic School Bus.
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My Mentor; My Friend
I’ve been sitting on this for over a month. Well, not sitting, more cobbling together thoughts and experiences from over 15 years of knowing, learning from, and working with Dr. Jim Westgate.
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