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NASCAR needs new gas in the tank beyond Dale Jr

Everything’s coming up Earnhardt, and for Dale Jr, that’s great. For NASCAR, it may be a different story.

Dale Earnhardt Jr, AKA Dale Jr, is featured heavily in what was Amazon Prime’s summer coverage of races in June. He was prominent in advertisements and as a featured commentator for those races. He’s also featured in a new IHOP commercial. And a new Amazon Prime docu-series about his Dad, recently released to acclaim.

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The Dying Art of the Animation Cel

I can’t recall if I’ve discussed them here before, but I’m the proud owner of a few animation cels in my personal art collection. They’re pieces of a whole and reflections of the things I loved as a kid. Their existence on my walls grows even more special with each year as cels are part of a dying art.

Cel is short for celluloid, which is the transparent sheet on which the “animated” drawings were once painted or drawn on.

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Geddy Lee’s Show About Bassists is Worth Discovering, Even If the Platform Hides It

The trailer for Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? Sets very little expectation as it states, “Welcome to a different kind of music show.”

Furthermore, the series title sequence narration shares, “I’m Geddy Lee. Bass player in the band Rush for almost five decades. But also, a bird photographer, a wine collector, baseball aficionado, you know, a nerd! Which got me wondering whether my fellow bass folk are more than just the shadowy figures we see skulking around the stage. I wanna know, ‘Are Bass Players Human Too?’”

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Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

After spending so much time exploring the decks of the various Enterprises for Star Trek, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generations, and all of their associated movies, settling down for some time on a space station seemed like a very interesting changeup. That said, I loved Deep Space Nice.

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Zinoman’s biography of David Letterman should make your Top Ten list on Late Night

I was too young to experience the Late Night Wars. They were well over – or at least not as hostile – by the time I was able to stay up late enough to watch any of the Late Night offerings, but I did choose a side. I was a Letterman guy.  At the time, I just preferred Letterman to Leno. Since then, I’ve enjoyed his post-Late Night era Netflix series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.”…

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