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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins is a must have for NASAphiles

Carrying the Fire An Astronauts Journeys Michael Collins

There is something uniquely wonderful about the autobiography of Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys, and it is indeed the author Michael Collins.

Collins writes of his journeys into the astronaut corps and of his flights on Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 with such descriptive simplicity, that the book is both hard to put down and hard to continue without taking a moment to think about the story he has just told.

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Musings of an American Sports Fan who REALLY Enjoys the CFL

Musings of an American Sports Fan who REALLY Enjoys the CFL

Earlier this month, a lot of American football fans were introduced to the Canadian Football League as they turned on ESPN2 to watch the debut of Johnny Manziel for the Montreal Alouettes against the team he was just recently on.

Despite all of the hype from all over North America, it wasn’t even the best debut of that week! The previous night, the Toronto Argonauts’ McLeod Baltazar Bethel-Thompson threw a touchdown pass with one second left, to cap off a 42-41 comeback victory over the Ottawa Redblacks in his first CFL start!

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Disenchantment on Netflix

Disenchantment is a Return to Form for Matt Groening that’s more Futurama than Simpsons.

Matt Groening returns to the small screen with Netflix’s Disenchantment. The writer’s room and voice talents are a who’s who of Futurama and Simpsons veterans with some IT Crowd connections like Matt Berry and Noel Fielding rounding out the star-studded cast. It’s five hours of the animated stylings that made The Simpsons and Futurama so good, that’s right, it’s the quickest binge you’ll ever go on with 10 half-hour episodes waiting for you.

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