Category: Potpourri

Potpourri for April 14, 2024

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  • Our tax app filed our income taxes with the imperial federal government and the state so that chore is off the plate for another year. I sure don’t miss the days when we had a small business and had to account for sales taxes collected, equipment depreciation, payments to temporary employees, and enough forms to choke a goat. Things are much easier now.
  • Iranian missiles near al-Aqsa

    Last night as my wife and I watched the news coverage of Iran’s missile and drone attack against Israel, my first thought was what’s the point. The attack was so dangerous because it could have (and still might) morph into a larger confrontation. I was happy to hear that 99% of the incoming drones and missiles were destroyed and that one of those that was intercepted through the U.S. Navy’s use of a relatively new Layered Laser Defense (LLD) system which ought to be much safer aboard ships than explosives-based weapons.

  • I’m enjoying re-reading Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library in which a person can choose one probable version of his/her life or another, see what it’s like, and then if s/he doesn’t, try another version.  I like the associations of the plot with the many worlds’ interpretation of quantum physics. My only quibble with the storyline is that when people drop into the middle of one of their probable selves’ lives, they don’t know what that self would know at that moment. So. they’re flying blind and that means a lot of time is lost figuring out what’s going on.
  • In my novel in progress, my characters are discussing the devil’s outhouse. Since I’m writing magical realism, I don’t have to worry about how they’d know anything about that outhouse.
  • I still have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). Since this is a family values-oriented blog (hahaha), I’ll spare you the details of how that works. My long list of things I can no longer eat or drink isn’t too terrible. For example, I’ve switched from milk to Lactaid; that’s worked out fine.  I’m not supposed to have booze, including wine or moonshine. But sometimes I can’t resist even though I’ll pay for that indiscretion later in pretty much the same way I pay for putting too much Tabasco sauce in my chili or buying lunch from Popeyes Chicken (my favorite).
  • I hope the lawn mower still works. It’s past time to find out.

–Malcolm

Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of the Florida Folk Magic series about a conjure woman fighting the KKK in the 1950s Florida Panhandle

Potpourri for Valentine’s Day

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  1. Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. – Wikipedia

  2. “They have killed skinny jeans and continue to shame millennials for having side partings in their hair. They think using the crying tears emoji to express laughter is embarrassing. But now comes a surprising gen Z plot twist. One habit that those born between 1997 and 2012 are keen to endorse is reading – and it’s physical books rather than digital that they are thumbing. This week the 22-year-old model Kaia Gerber launched her own book club, Library Science. Gerber, who this month appears on the cover of British Vogue alongside her supermodel mum, Cindy Crawford, describes it as ‘a platform for sharing books, featuring new writers, hosting conversations with artists we admire – and continuing to build a community of people who are as excited about literature as I am’”. Guardian

  3. “When you’re a parent who loves to read—or as the case is for me, happily, makes his living from reading—the first time you see your child become obsessed with an author is a genuine thrill. For both of my daughters, that author was Raina Telgemeier. The graphic novelist, best known for her trio of memoirs about her anxious preteen years, Smile, Sisters, and Guts, is referred to in my house simply as “Raina.” Apparently we’re not alone, as Jordan Kisner’s profile this week makes clear. Telgemeier is beloved for the way she captures an essential part of growing up: the fear that you and you alone are strange. My daughters read her books again and again, sometimes finishing and then flipping right back to the first page. We have multiple copies of most of them, now completely tattered. Their intense love of these titles reminds me of a powerful aspect of reading—one that adults often end up forgetting.” – The Atlantic
  4. Oysters with Pikliz – Today’s Meals 

Romantic Valentine’s Day Meals –  1 small head Savoy cabbage, cored and thinly sliced, 2 medium carrots, grated, 1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion2 scallions, thinly sliced, 3 medium garlic cloves, minced, 2 tablespoons kosher salt, 2 1/2 teaspoons black pepper, 2 teaspoons smoked paprika, 1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice, 4 small fresh habanero chiles or Scotch bonnet chiles, thinly sliced and, if desired, seeds removed, 1 cup distilled white vinegar, 24 oysters on the half shell

–Malcolm

Goulash for Sunday 12-17-23

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  • The Six-month tummy ache continues as the Gastroenterology Department runs a slew of tests. All are normal so far. This experience is pretty much like having a strong case of mono for six months (I’ve been there and done that). The adoption of the two-snake symbol for medicine is an old mistake that got engraved in stone.
  • I’m re-reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It’s been a while. And I still despise the first sentence. Among other things, this novel has had a strong influence on the magical realism genre. Wikipedia says “Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, One Hundred Years of Solitude has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. The novel, considered García Márquez’s magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon and in world literature.”
  • Ah, “The Crown” has returned to finish out the rest of the season. In the episode we saw last night, Prime Minister Tony Blair tries to convince the queen that the monarchy is out of touch with everyday people and needs to modernize. She thinks not.  Better to get rid of it completely, but then nobody asked me. Harry Potter fans will notice that the actress who’s playing the queen, Imelda Staunton, played the nasty Dolores Umbridge in the Hogwarts films. That fits.
  • We watched the two-night “MasterChef Junior Home for the Holidays” and, as usual, find it hard to believe these kids can cook so well. When I was ten years old, I was playing cowboys and Indians in the backyard. But these children are turning out meals that could actually be served in a high-end restaurant. Ramsay gets his family into the act as commentators and judges. I wonder if he has to pay them. As usual with their kids’ shows, somebody gets a pie in the face. Guess who?
  • I believe I’ve read most of the James Patterson series about Alex Cross. So, I’m looking forward to Alex Cross Must Die which was released last month. Typically–as a frugal Scot–I’m waiting for the price to come down before I buy it. From the publisher: “One of the greatest fictional detectives of all time (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission.” I’m not exactly holding my breath about the outcome, but when I find a series of novels I like, it’s hard not to sell the house to pay for the latest installment.

—Malcolm

Potpourri for Sunday, 11/12/23

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Unlike real potpourri, this post won’t make you sneeze. If it does, please consult a psychologist or, possibly, a conjure woman.

  • Since I grew up in Florida, I see the Florida Panther as “Florida’s Buffalo.” They used to be found throughout the Southeast. When my family moved to Florida in 1950, they were still roaming throughout the Florida Panhandle. Now, those that remain are confined (mostly) to a refuge in South Florida just north of Alligator Alley. In the old days, there was a bounty on them for about the same reasons there’s often a bounty on wolves–a threat to livestock. Now, development is the primary threat to the Panther. You can become a member of the Friends of the Florida Panther for $25.  I’m happy to say I have seen one. Magnificent! Sadly, it was in an outdoor zoo.
  • I hope most people take a moment or so to think about Veterans Day. I like this poster from 2018 because it brings back the ambiance of the time when the holiday was created as Armistice Day in 1938, before expanding into Veterans Day in 1954. I called it Armistice Day for years because that was its name when I was a kid. I know this is “flip,” but we kept saying “Armistice Day” and “Boulder Dam” instead of “Hoover Dam” for the same reason that many of us still refer to aluminum foil as “tin foil.” The name doesn’t matter as much as an acknowledgment that we owe a lot to those who came home.
  • 1922 Ad

    As was thinking over the old names that got engraved in stone, I realized that many of my friends (and sometimes me, horrors) still refer to the refrigerator as the “ice box.” Yes, we called our Frigidaire the ice box when were were kids because ice boxes were still common. My parents bought our Frigidaire when the brand was still made by General Motors and, it was still running many decades later (outlasting my parents). Now, like the word “cellophane,” often used to refer to any clear wrap, many people call their refrigerator a Fridge even though it’s not a Frigidaire.  It’s rather like calling any facial tissue a “Kleenex.” We always use Kleenex so we’re in the clear when we refer to our tissues and “Kleenex.”

  • As I continue re-reading Holy Blood, Holy Grail, I wonder how many of the “hoaxes” (or unproven speculations) in the book and Dan Brown’s subsequent novel are really hoaxes and how many are coverups for organizations that really exist. (Nothing to see here, that’s all been faked.)  For example, the Priory of Sion (which some say was the parent of the Knights Templar and which others say was founded in 1956 and made to appear older than it was), probably wasn’t the nasty child of the Vatican as portrayed in The Da Vinci Code. Well, fooey. But unlike the real or imagined Priory, I do think the evidence suggesting Mary Magdalen probably was Jesus’ wife is correct. Margaret Starbird’s The Woman with the Alabaster Jar is for me, the most definitive on that point.

–Malcolm

Potpourri for 10-15-23

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  • “This film will be the biography of the continent’s most magnificent species, an improbable, shaggy beast that nonetheless has found itself at the center of many of our nation’s most thrilling, mythic, and sometimes heartbreaking tales. It is a quintessentially American story, filled with a diverse cast of fascinating characters. But it is also a morality tale encompassing two important and historically significant lessons that resonate today.” – Ken Burns Website.  I’m looking forward to this October 16 and 17.
  • It upsets me to read that “progressive” university students support the terrorist organization Hamas which is backed by Qatar and Iran under the pretense that it’s the real government of Palestine. The reports of Hamas’ attack against Israel read as war crimes, not legitimate protests against Palestinian problems. I stand by Israel against these barbaric terrorist organizations that won’t leave it alone.
  • I continue to enjoy the Kathy Reichs “Temperance Brennan” series of novels, having just ordered the 12th book in the series 206 Bones. I started reading these novels to learn more about the inspiration behind the “Bones” TV series and have not been disappointed. They read well, often put Temperance in danger when she goes into the field on her own recognizance, and have plenty of humor.
  • Temperatures are falling in the South and I very much approve of that since I don’t like the summer heat. As a Leo, I know I should like sunshine, but I much prefer falling leaves and snow storms. I must admit, though, that as I grow older, cold weather bothers me more.
  • As I fight against the stomach infection I got in June from unknown sources, I see that even after two rounds of antibiotics (along with green tea), the old medication Tagament that cured my stomach when this first happened years ago may prove to be the most effective. When I first had it, it was a prescription drug. Now it’s OTC. I’m feeling better.
  • It’s been interesting noting the difference between “Chicago Fire” and the older series “Emergency.” The fire trucks on “Emergency” hit the burning structure with water immediately while “Chicago Fire” sends firefighters into the burning building first to search for those trapped and/or injured without charging up a hose. The “Chicago Fire” approach makes for good drama but intuitively looks like a wrong-headed way to fight fires. My own experience comes from a hands-on Navy fire fighting school. And yes, we learned that water will put out an oil fire.
  • I’m happy to see that Hope Clark, a long-time force behind the site Funds for Writers, is maintaining a high-impact novelist career with her books, The Carolina Slade Mysteries,  The Edisto Island Mysteries, and The Craven County Mysteries. The books are compelling and well-written, If you haven’t found them yet, you have gems awaiting you. I enjoy these books that are set in the South where Hope lives with her husband who was in law enforcement. Each of the series has believable characters fighting against real problems.

–Malcolm

Potpourri for Sunday, September 14, 2023

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  • According to Wikipedia, “Potpourri (/poʊpʊˈriː/ poh-puu-REE) is a mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant materials used to provide a gentle natural scent, commonly in residential settings. It is often placed in a decorative bowl.” I like the word as a synonym for “medley” but not as a vase or bag with dried plants intended to give a room a pleasing scent. That stuff always makes me sneeze in the same fashion as a room full of dust bunnies. Wikipedia says that up to 455 plants have been identified as being used when making potpourri, “including algae, fungi, and lichens.” I have no idea why anyone would want that stuff in their house. Those who do it are apparently putting on airs.
  • Before reading Kathy Reichs’ novel Fatal Voyage, I had never heard the term “DMORT” even though teams from this agency help investigate airline crashes with a focus on passengers; remains. The acronym stands for Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams, and I suppose they don’t make the news because (a) the public doesn’t want to hear about the dead, and (b) news organizations tend to focus on why a plane crashed. According to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, “When natural or man-made disaster strikes, sometimes there are more fatalities than local resources can manage. Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams (DMORTs) support local mortuary services on location, working to quickly and accurately identify victims and reunite victims with their loved ones in a dignified, respectful manner.” After reading Fatal Voyage, I have a new appreciation for the kinds of people who can deal with the heart-breaking carnage and make sense of it for the families of the victims.
  • We have finally gotten around to watching the PBS series “Atlantic Crossing” which first ran in 2021 on PBS.  The focus here is the plight of Norway in World War II. PBS says that “A European princess steals the heart of the U.S. president in an epic drama inspired by the real World War II relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha.” Norway had expected to be spared a German invasion due to its neutrality, but the Germans invaded anyway, forcing the monarchy to flee to England where it established a government in exile. We have enjoyed the series, especially since it covers a portion of World War II that is often neglected in overviews of the war.
  • I often print news releases on this blog that come from PEN America because they focus on attacks on our freedoms of speech and press. According to PEN’s website, “Our strength is our membership—a nationwide community of novelists and nonfiction authors, journalists, editors, poets, screenwriters, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other literary professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters who join with them to carry out PEN America’s mission.” I would join if I could, but the cost is dear at $50. I’m just happy that PEN’s website is available to all who stop by. Keeping up with the issues of press and speech freedom are, to me, mandatory.

–Malcolm

Potpourri for Saturday, September 9th

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  • My stomach infection is about four months old because the GP decided to refer me to a specialist whose first available appointment was two months away. When I complained, the GP did a test, found an infection, and gave me antibiotics. They seemed to be working but the infection came back after they ran their course. I didn’t tell him because by now, I was at the specialist’s practice. She ran an upper GI which came back normal, then sent me back to the lab for the same test the GP ran many weeks ago. I like the specialist, but think the infection would be gone for good if the GP had handled the whole process. I love modern medicine. <g>
  • I guess I’m watching “Yellowstone” because all my regular shows are still off for the summer and/or stalemated by the actors’ and writers’ strikes. The series is gritty and well-written but seems to be composed of all the possible cliches about life in Montana, including large ranchers being evil, the rez being a bad place, and all levels of state and tribal government being corrupt. I hate to say that I’ve become addicted.
  • I liked Jeff Shaara’s historical novel about Teddy Roosevelt called Old Lion. Very readable, and also compelling even for those of us who’ve read TR biographies such as  Mornings on Horseback. Up to now, Shaara’s novels have focussed on wars and battles. I guess he finally ran out of wars to write about. His battlefield novels are always told via the points of view of some of the major players. It took me a while to adjust to an omniscient narrator point of view in a Shaara novel.
  • Years ago, I learned that food poisoning was a “great way” to lose weight. As it turns out, so is a stomach infection. They work faster than all those diet plans advertised on TV.  They’re a no pain, no loss kind of thing.
  • Well, it seems that most of the books I want to read haven’t come down in price yet. So, I’m re-reading many of my Kathy Reichs (Bones) thrillers, including her 1997 novel Déjà Dead. These are well-written and compelling even if you’ve read them before because there’s no way one can remember all the plots and subplots. Since her novels stem from her profession, one learns a lot about dead people and morgues. Like the TV series, the Temperance Brenan in the books likes skipping out of the lab and investigating what the police seem slow to focus on. Déjà Dead is her first novel. If you read enough of these, you’ll become well-versed in Quebecois profanity that you don’t hear in France such as “Tabernac.”
  • Nice to see a little rain today in NW Georgia.

–Malcolm, author of “Conjure Woman’s Cat”

One thing and (possibly) another

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  • I’ve enjoyed Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” series and am just about done reading the latest installment Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone. I’m enjoying the novel: it has the series’ typically interesting characters, historically accurate themes, and the kind of humor that develops when characters have been together throughout many books. Even so, I’m a bit disappointed in this novel that’s set in North Carolina as the revolutionary war begins. Basically, I think the book has too much backstory almost as though we haven’t read the rest of the series and need to be brought up to date on what’s happened to everyone since the initial novel was published in  1991. The current novel is number nine out of a planned ten books. We need more action in this one.
  • When I first heard about the “Barbie” movie, I assumed it was going to be all fluff like the OLD (1965) “Beach Blanket Bingo” and the 1989-2001 TV series “Baywatch.” What a surprise, “Barbie” is not only doing well at the box office but has gotten some good reviews such as this one on NPR: “‘Barbie’ review: Sometimes corporate propaganda can be fun as hell.” Here’s an excerpt: “Barbie isn’t just a movie that could never fully escape out from under the weight of its artistic compromises. It’s a hoot, a feast for the eyes and ears. Sarah Greenwood’s production design is sensorially astounding; Barbie Land is conceived as it’s appeared in kids’ imaginations for decades – both tangible (plastic shower, toaster, or car) and intangible (invisible water, toast, or motor). The makeup team confidently balances an essence of plasticity without drowning in it to the point of the uncanny. There are musical numbers and A+ cameos. (I’d love to get Lizzo to sing-narrate my life, too, please!)”
  • I’ve recorded the 1971 movie “Klute,” a neo-noir thriller that I saw in a theater when it was released, and liked everything about it. I like noir a lot and neo-noir almost as much. I don’t know whether my wife will watch this one with me because she still hasn’t forgiven Fonda for her travels to Vietnam during the war. I haven’t either, but I see the movie as separate from its star’s Oscar-winning performance. According to Wikipedia, “Klute was widely praised by critics for its screenplay and Fonda’s performance, though some criticized Pakula’s unconventional direction. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Klute holds an approval rating of 93% based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website’s critical consensus reads: ‘Donald Sutherland is coolly commanding and Jane Fonda a force of nature in Klute, a cuttingly intelligent thriller that generates its most agonizing tension from its stars’ repartee.’ On Metacritic, which assigns a rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating ‘universal acclaim.'”
  • Are you planning to watch “Oppenheimer”? I’m thinking it’s one of those must-see films because it focuses on an important part of our history. Wikipedia writes that “The film was released on the same day as Barbie, a fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig based on Mattel‘s Barbie fashion dolls and media franchise, and distributed by Warner Bros. Due to the tonal and genre contrast between the two films, many social media users created memes about how the two films appealed to different audiences, and how they should be viewed as a double feature. The trend was dubbed “Barbenheimer“. In an interview with La Vanguardia, Cillian Murphy endorsed the phenomenon, saying “My advice would be for people to go see both, on the same day. If they are good films, then that’s cinema’s gain.” If I went to a theater to see “Barbie,” I’d have to wear my Batman costume to avoid attracting attention. As for “Oppenheimer,” I’ll probably watch it even though I think the bomb should not have been used against Japan in World War II.

—Malcolm

Potpourri for 7/16/23

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  • The first time I had ulcers, the diagnosis, tests, and treatment were handled by a GP. This time, the GP (not the same doctor) turned the whole matter over to a specialist. So now I sit and wait for an August 24th appointment to arrive. This fits a news story I saw on TV that people are experiencing longer wait times getting an appointment with a specialist. Part of the problem is using GPs for intake into the system rather than as a place of treatment. My two cents.
  • Now that performers have joined writers, Hollywood is being shut down. As usual, the studios are claiming that the strikers are only hurting themselves. According to Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, “I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history.” I support the strikers in this rare instance of the writers’ and actors’ unions striking at the same time.
  • According to USA Today, “Actress and singer Jane Birkin, who inspired fashion-forward Birkin bag, has died at 76.” Frankly, I’m tired of reading news stories about people who are more or less in my generation dying off. According to Wikipedia, “In 2001, Birkin was awarded the OBE. She was also awarded the French Ordre National du Mérite in 2004 and 2015. She won the “Best Actress” award at the 1985 Orleans Film Festival for Leave All Fair. The jury of the 1985 Venice Film Festival recognized Birkin’s performance in Dust as amongst the best of the year but decided not to award the best actress prize because all of the actresses they judged to have made the best performances were in films that won major awards. Dust won the Silver Lion prize. In 2018, she received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.”
  • As TNR puts it in “The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life”  “Scientists disagree about what life on other planets even means. Would we know it when we saw it?” “A truly alien alien is so incomprehensible that stories about them just become stories about human beings,” Jaime Green writes in her new book, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Universe.” Maybe our neighbors come from a universe far away. How would we know? Perhaps we think those aliens will look like the Klingons or the Vulcans from “Star Trek.” If so, they wouldn’t blend in very well, would they?

–Malcolm

Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of contemporary fantasy, paranormal, and magical realism short stories and novels. The four-book set shown here combines four Kindle novels into one volume at a savings to readers

Potpourri, &c., for July 9, 2023

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If you live in north Georgia, you already know more rain is coming. If you don’t, then it doesn’t matter. More time to read while the grass slowly grows too tall for the riding mower to cut.

  • I’m enjoying Diana Gabaldon’s Go Tell the Bees That I am gone. It’s 888 pages long in trade paperback, not counting the endnotes. I’ve often wondered if Diana or her publisher have considered including a synopsis of the series at the beginning of each novel to orient people who haven’t read prior books. If you started reading Bees without any knowledge of all the earlier books, you’d be completely lost.
  • I don’t know who or what ticked off a skunk late last night, but getting the smell out of the house took a lot of Febreze. I was hoping our indoor/outdoor cat hadn’t “done anything bad” to the skunk and left it on the front porch. The smell’s gone now, so with luck, the skunk is freshening up one of our neighbor’s yards.
  • We have been watching the TV series “1883.” It’s well-written but a bit gritty. Here’s Wikipedia’s synopsis of the overall plot: “The story is chronologically the first of several prequels to Sheridan’s Yellowstone and details how the Duttons came to own the land that would become the Yellowstone Ranch. It is the second installment produced in the Yellowstone franchise. The series consists of ten episodes and concluded on February 27, 2022.” It’s something to watch until”The Crown” resumes later this month.
  • How many of you have seen  “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”? The reviews have been lukewarm even though the trailer looks good. We’ll probably watch it out of nostalgia regardless of what the critics have to about it. As Wikipedia reports, “Owen Gleiberman of Variety described the film as a ‘dutifully eager but ultimately rather joyless piece of nostalgic hokum minus the thrill… Though it has its quota of ‘relentless’ action, it rarely tries to match (let alone top) the ingeniously staged kinetic bravura of Raiders of the Lost Ark … time travel, in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is really an unconscious metaphor, since it’s the movie that wants to go back in time, completing our love affair with the defining action-movie-star role of Harrison Ford. In the abstract, at least, it accomplishes that, right down to the emotional diagram of a touching finale, but only by reminding you that even if you re-stage the action ethos of the past, recapturing the thrill is much harder.'”
  • According to Variety, “‘Bones’ Creator on Potential Revival: ‘Every Once in a While, We Are All Nostalgic Enough to Think Maybe We Should Do It Again’” I hope this doesn’t happen because “they” may change some of the primary stars, and then the show just wouldn’t be the same. If it doesn’t get a reboot, I’m fine with that because the Kathy Reichs series is independent from the TV show.

—Malcolm