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Morning Tea: Captain Kirk Takes Up Social Media Space…

October 13, 2021September 18, 2023 Sammy Younan No Comments

What’s popping in popular culture? Sammy steeps some seriously serious tea which prompts reflections.

Morning Tea, My Pal Sammy, True Sammy Stories

217 | Michael Robbins (Walkman)

September 7, 2021March 31, 2024 Sammy Younan No Comments

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to poet and writer Michael Robbins whose latest poetry collection is Walkman.

My Summer Lair, Podcast

Morning Tea: Star Trek: Voyager Documentary

February 25, 2020 Sammy Younan

Star Trek: Picard isn’t working. It’s partly the cheap Millennialization (which is frustrating because it’s not for you. On this point I side with the gatekeepers). Tragically Picard may end up in the collection of Star Trek failures: Enterprise and Discovery. Good writing is good writing. So yeah it’s fairly easy to classify them as…

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Morning Tea

Picard’s First Tea

January 24, 2020September 25, 2023 Sammy Younan

Ok. Are we gonna discuss last night’s Picard debut??! Barely 3 minutes into the first episode Jean-Luc Picard says in that forceful Patrick Stewart way: “Let’s behave like civilized men.” And then pours a cup of tea before he gets a response. Tea out the gate. Fresh! I have other feelings but man to see…

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My Pal Sammy, Television, True Sammy Stories

Quality Time is TV’s Love Language

January 23, 2020December 31, 2023 Sammy Younan

Star Trek: Picard is a love letter to the back in the day 22…24…even 26 episodes per television season. Appointment TV.

Television

#SetTheVCR: January 19-25, 2020

January 19, 2020March 29, 2023 Sammy Younan

Welcome back to a new #SetTheVCR and a new streaming service. The latest New Kid on the Block is Peacock from NBCUniversal (a subsidiary of Comcast. So clearly they got lots of “content” to offer.). The service will launch on July 15, 2020. Is TV getting stressful? Aren’t you glad you have the following TV recommendations to make your life easier? You’re welcome!

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Set The VCR