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Roger Lee Leasor
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Retired wine guy. Unretired actor, storyteller, and book hoarder.
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Cinema Paradiso on TCM........
........hooked again.
January 17, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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Snow in the forecast, but I'm re-living a past, sad, well-spent summer day.
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Funeralville
Funeralville Kentucky is unendingly interesting to me. I’m perfectly happy to spend all my time here. It is composed of many things that are unsurprising, predictable …pedestrian even. Still, it co…
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January 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Classical music can help you get down the road.
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Dang-a-Dang-Dang — Revised
I used to drive around Kentucky quite a bit in my job. Most of the time, it was a great blessing. I love living in Kentucky; the people and the places are precious to me. One blissful evening I dro…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Ever watched a show that was so bad it was................just................bad?
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Dracula and the Five Dollars I Owe You
(Cue the weird music…perhaps an organ sting…perhaps the theme from JAWS…or that nee-nee-nee-nee music from The Twilight Zone.) Understand. All actors think they can play anything…anything. They can…
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January 14, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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How I met Janie...
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Dial M for Ray
As the curtain rises. In the fall of 1984 I was spinning a bit. I had filed for divorce, was living in a 56-year-old house with a 25-year-old furnace, 2 window air-conditioners, 3 shingle roofs on …
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January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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When do we take-off?
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…born in the gutter, but…
We are a strange species. We can and have successfully built a machine and sent it on a nine year journey to the farthest planet in our solar system and now added a machine to orbit and transmit pi…
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January 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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I was never indicted.
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I Killed Peter Pan
I think the statute of limitations has run out. I can confess. It’s not something I’m proud of and I don’t include it on my resumé. But I did it…or at least I thought so at the time. For historical…
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January 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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Funeralville II
I watched parts of various stages of President Bush’s funeral. I wept a bit for a man and a family I did not particularly admire. I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Maybe I was moved by the…
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January 6, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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There shoulda been cameras...or had they been invented?
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My Reality Show Career
The Birthday Party” (1971) In my second year at the University of Kentucky I was cast in the student production of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party. It was a great experience for me. I was …
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January 2, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Don't need an AI watch with a cathedral belfry nearby.
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“Cathedral Bells Kept Time”
“Cathedral Bells Kept Time” Nanci Griffith made that observation in her song/reminiscence; “Three Flights Up”. I lived it… …for a while. I’m an unrepentant…nay……make that a gleefu…
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December 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Hangin' with Suzy and Doc...
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Steinbeck and Screens
When people I meet learn; That at my mom’s urging, I was reading before I started school; My first job was as a clerk in the Children’s Department of the Lexington Public Library; I’ve collected bo…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The splendor of a missed lighting cue...
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The Dylan Thomas & Groucho Marx Meeting You Never Heard About
The Dylan Thomas and Groucho Marx Meeting You Never Heard About It would have been in the fall of 1968. It was a big night for little Roger. I was a senior in high school and I was going to see the…
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December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Rock and roll can take you to wondrous places.
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Pray for the Chickens
I woke up in Atlanta to the wheels of a very large passenger jet’s landing gear skimming the roof of the bookmobile in which I was sleeping…on the interstate. Whew! That’s a big sentence. Let’s unp…
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December 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Recalling a hopeful night in the theater...
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Darkness Dispelled
I was on the road to Damascus in 2018, sitting in the darkest back row of the Singletary Concert Hall for my fifth viewing of that year’s It’s a Grand for Singing (a hugely popular show-music extra…
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December 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Movie night!
A double feature.
One silly, one serious, dark, and very fine.
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Japanese Noir
I watch some fairly awful movies with great regularity and glee. Nothing could promise less and truly deliver accurately on the promise than movies like The Giant Gila Monster or I Was a Teenage We…
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December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I'd like to say every review is a good one..............then.......
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A Dream Cast…in a Nightmare
Lexington has theatre this week! I’m reminded of a dream cast from antebellum days. You can pick whichever “bellum” you prefer, I’m sure this “ante’s” them…
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December 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I read that petting your dog lowers your blood pressure.
Chloe, the Wonder Pup, the Queen of Debris assures me it's true.
I believe it.
But...
...I also believe similar beneficial results ensue by listening to Billy Strayhorn play "Take the A-Train."
December 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Some of us still look at the stars.
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A Close Encounter Revisited
Movie Night! We cling to and cherish what constants we can find in our lives. Well…..maybe not death and taxes…but most of ‘em. For example, these are some of the verities upon which I depend; Meli…
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December 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Wit in an increasingly witless time...
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Ten or So Things I Learned From Harlan Ellison
I still miss Harlan Ellison.I feel diminished, but’s that not accurate. Though I never met the man, he enhanced my world. He pointed a way to empowerment with wit and ferocity. On many days, …
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December 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Exactly how it might have happened...
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Cabana Daydreamin’
It looked like a dive. It wanted to look like a dive. Seedy but safe was its aspiration. Had it not been in a city 500+ miles from any ocean, perhaps sailors coulda been part of the decor. …o…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I look at my backyard this morning and flashback!
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Alaska Daydreaming?
Some pondering on an odd 60-degree winter day after a fine summer in Lexington… I recently passed my anniversary of my time with the Canadian-owned Liquor Barn. It has since returned to being a Ken…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It's time, I think to revisit my current favorite Holiday classic.
This one won't be on the Hallmark Channel.
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Snarling Charles and the Case of the Christmas Gas Bag
“Look at the fog!” Chuck peered out his front window at his first Christmas season in his new neighborhood. After decades of Christmases living under the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, clearing the…
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December 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Helicopter defeats Iambic Pentameter; 1-0.
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Atticus vs the Sound Effects
Summer outdoor theater is a miraculous thing. The miracle happens about six months after the summer theater season, in the depths of winter. There is a moment when snow is on the ground and the win…
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December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Scary stuff.
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Casting the Runes
We live in a golden age of things to watch. There’s the addictive Trump Reality Show broadcast 24/7/365 by CNN, MNBC, and Faux News. HBO, Netflix, Amazon, etc. are producing their own wonders. That…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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We gotta go get them rocks!
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A Martian Dune Buggy
February, 2021. After toting it for six months over 290 million miles, we parked a dune buggy on the surface of Mars. A dune buggy! I expected the first pictures transmitted would show Arch Hall Ju…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM