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The thoughts & Musings of Christopher F. Reidy*

NOTE: Apparently this webpage has some glitches. It tends to randomly switch out visual material.  Why?  Don't ask me.  So, if a pic doesn't match the text...it doesn't!  Rest assured I am trying to amend this problem.  When I get around to it.

*(may contain misuse of apostrophes, miss spellings, overabundance of semi-colons,  wrong word usage, etc.
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​ALSO: 
Please find a complete index of blog posts on the homepage, for your convenience!

AND YET ANOTHER NOTE:
The visual switcheroos on these blogs have reached a point where there's no way I can correct them all, so I'm just going to leave them be.  If they don't match the text, just think of them as whimsical funsies decorating the text.  I will continue to supply pictures; but I cannot guarantee their context: much like my mind.
Thank you for your patience!

A FURTHER NOTE:
I try to keep this website relatively free of anything truly morally reprehensible or obscene.  However, in the pursuit of honesty; I will be quite frank about sexuality; as I feel one should be.  To  wit: this website is not for children.  It is decidedly "adult"; although not necessarily not "childish."  I do not feel it is suitable, in some instances, for anyone below the age of 17.  Or maybe a very mature 16...or 15 even.  
THIS WEBSITE IS RATED: PG-15

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Just Callin' 'Em Like I Sees 'Em

6/29/2022

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ANNOUNCER: It's time for...

GAME SHOW STUDIO AUDIENCE (IN UNISON):  "Is...This...A...Coincidence!?!"
WILD APPLAUSE. 
CUE MUSIC: THEME "MEXICAN BREAKFAST"
Our host Mr. Chris, takes the stage.
Mr. Chris: Thank you ladies for that boffo dance! Que estaba muy caliente! And welcome everyone to Is This A Coincidence?!?, the gameshow where we ask you, the audience, to determine if something is a random coincidence or not.
​So here goes...it's a photo DuJour Daily:

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Now that's a still from 2021's Hulu Production of Only Murders In the Building.  Great show!  Just started watching it.  This is from episode two, where Selena Gomez is snooping around a dimly lighted room and comes across a shelf of Hardy Boys books.  I love the Hardy Boys!  Couldn't get enough when I was a kid.
And here's a quote from a novel from 2015, entitled 83 In the Shade by a Mr. Christopher F. Reidy.  From page 350 of the first edition: Chapter 11: Pahlah Games:

"...I glanced around the room.  His office?  On one of the bookshelves was a near complete set of Hardy Boys books; their unmistakable royal blue bindings clearly visible in the soft light from the antique desk lamp."

Now I ask you again audience..."Is This A Coincidence?"!
And your 30 seconds starts now!


Mr. Chris: Well, audience...is this a coincidence or not?
AUDIENCE WALLA-WALLA


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Mr. Chris: Well, it seems our audience can't decide...so in that case, let's bring out our celebrity guest judge: A hologram of none other than Walt Disney himself!
​WALT DISNEY: Hello everyone out there in TV Land!
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Mr. Chris: Hello Uncle Walt!
Uncle Walt: Hi Chris!
Mr. Chris: Well, we're all wondering Uncle Walt...is it a coincidence...or not?  Did Hulu pull a fast one?
Uncle Walt: What's a "Hulu" Chris?
Mr. Chris: It's a streaming service!
Uncle Walt: You mean, like, for fly-fishing?
Mr. Chris (Chuckles) Oh no!  It's a signal that streams over the internet to your device and you can watch all sorts of entertainment programs! 
Uncle Walt: I don't understand any of that...
Mr. Chris: For a fee, of course.
Uncle Walt: That I understand!
Mr. Chris: Okay, do you remember how your first TV show aired on the ABC television network?
Uncle Walt: Of course!
Mr. Chris: Well, your company eventually bought the network and then scientists invented this thing called the internet which was kind of a computer network that eventually became integrated into television with it's own networks, one of which your company created and named Hulu.  And now it's all kind of one huge thing...an entertainment monster that needs around the clock feeding.
Uncle Walt: Like Bambi?
Mr. Chris: Sure...
Uncle Walt: Why did they call it Hulu?
Mr. Chris: I don't know...
Uncle Walt: And you feel someone at this Hulu place used a piece of your prose in their work, without having the courtesy to even ask you?  Let alone pay you?
Mr. Chris: You said it, I didn't.
Uncle Walt: Well, The Hardy Boys are pretty integrated media.  Culturally embedded, as it were. In fact, I serialized it for The Mickey Mouse Show.

Mr. Chris: Huh...Tommy Kirk.  He was gay you know...
Uncle Walt: A very happy boy!
Mr. Chris: Okay, sure...yes, The Hardy Boys are not exactly a rarity.  But still, the context of that scene...the writing of the sentence: it could've been stage directions in the script...
Uncle Walt: Or not.
Mr. Chris: So Uncle Walt, what's your--
Uncle Walt: Coincidence, of course.
Mr. Chris.  Of course!  All right.  Well thank you Uncle Walt and thanks for tuning in Streaming Land!
​CUE CLOSING MUSIC: 
CFR 6/29/22
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    Christopher Reidy is from the Boston area.  He attended Boston University where he studied TV and film which eventually led him to Los Angeles.  There he did the Hollywood thing (which he wasn’t particularly good at) and eventually met his partner Joseph.  He was one of the co-founders of the short lived Off Hollywood Theatre Company which staged several of his original plays.  83 In the Shade is his first novel.  He also dabbles in screenplays, toys with short stories, and flirts with poetry.  Life brought him to bucolic Southwest Virginia where he now resides and is very active in community theatre. It may interest you to know Chris is officially an Irish citizen as well as an American. He also enjoys drawing and painting and looking after a passel of 
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