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Thank you for visiting my website. You'll find information about me and my activities/social media here. If you came here looking for the actor Richard Grove, you've found him. For some reason, I chose to use Richard as my first name while working as an actor in Hollywood. I have a separate post devoted to Richard Grove's acting career.  At present, I am producing a podcast about paperbacks called, "The Paperback Show", along with participating in a podcast about machinima (3D movies made inside of video games) called, "And Now For Something Completely Machinima".  I am also an online bookseller at eBay and Amazon under the "Grove Used Books" name. In addition to books, I also sell collectibles, DVDs, and comic books.  Lastly, I have social media pages on Instagram and Facebook. My Flickr page contains all of my found photographs and photos I've taken over the years.  You'll find more detailed info on each of these activities in separat...
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Cover of the Week: Modern Barbecue Cooking by Ed Bell

“Barbecue cooking is man’s oldest form of meal preparation. Prehistoric man was the first to barbecue” - Ed Bell The Iliad Bookshop in Los Angeles has two huge tables filled with sale books. Most are a dollar or two. My partner, Lisa Morton , works there and is always on the lookout for a sale book she thinks will appeal to me. Yesterday, she brought home Modern Barbecue Cooking by Ed Bell , which cost her one dollar. Being a barbecue lover myself (anyone who grew up in Arizona is automatically a barbecue lover), I pored over the book and found it to be a lot of fun. Dated a bit (the book was published in 1966), especially when it comes to the technology of barbecuing. However, overall, it remains a quite useful cookbook. Unfortunately, the poor-quality photographs in the book make the food appear unappetizing. Take a look: My God, the food looks like something a cannibal would cook. It seems that all of the mid-century cookbooks have this color problem. Thankfully, most of the ill...

Halloween 2023 Yard Haunt Video

 Lisa Morton and I create an elaborate haunt in our front yard every Halloween. This year we added several new attractions (zombie Fred is our favorite). We don't get a lot of kids at the door (this year we got 18), but that's ok. We love putting the haunt together even if it's just for ourselves. The wind usually acts up just before Oct 31 and knocks things down, but we dealt with it and the haunt turned out very well. Note: I edited the video together from two video walkthroughs; one by Lisa and one by myself. Hope you enjoy it. We have a website for our haunt where you can find out more information. 

Anime Journal - Demon Slayer Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 6

  This is a continuing journal of the great anime series  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba . Produced by  Ufotable  and released in late 2019. I'm re-watching each episode, providing a synopsis, and adding my own observations. You can read the first episode coverage  here. Episode 6 Swordsman Accompanying a Demon Tanjiro sets out on his first mission as a Demon Slayer. Urokodaki has made a small cedar backpack for his sister, Nezuko, to travel with him while she sleeps. Urokodaki tells him about special "Blood Demons" who have supernatural abilities and to look out for them.  Tanjiro arrives in a small town where young girls have been disappearing at night for several weeks. He encounters a young man who has been roughed up and is wandering the streets hopelessly. This is Kazumi. He was with one of the girls who disappeared and whose father beat him thinking he was lying. Tanjioro befriends him and at night they travel to the location where this young girl di...

BOBBY YEAH (HD) by Robert Morgan

Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score I Want To Live!

  Johnny Mandel , a composer of pop and jazz music, won his first Grammy nomination for the sound-track to Susan Hayward's overwrought film, "I want to Live". The score is much better than the movie. It's filled with great jazz hooks and has an energy that stays with you long after you've finished listening.  Mandel went on to win 5 Grammy's (out of 17 nominations). In addition to popular albums and musical arranging for other artists, he composed many film tracks. I particularly love his work on Point Blank, The Last Detail, Being There and the Verdict.  Archive.org hosts a recording of the original LP of "I Want to Live". You can download the entire score there. 

Anime Journal - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Episode 5

  This is a continuing journal of the great anime series  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba . Produced by  Ufotable  and released in late 2019. I'm re-watching each episode, providing a synopsis, and adding my own observations. You can read the first episode coverage  here.   Episode 5 "My Own Steel" Tanjiro has slain the morphing demon that killed so many of Urokodaki's students. As the demon slowly crumbles away, it remembers its childhood and fear of the dark. Tanjiro smells sadness in the air and hold the demons fingers and prays for a better reincarnation for this sad creature. Meanwhile the spirits of the slain students fade away while looking at Tanjiro. They are going back to the mountain they came from.  But Tanjiro still has to survive and continues to fight demons asking them if they know how a demon can turn back into a human. It's useless though as they are unreasoning brutes.  Tanjiro survives along with four other students. At the wist...