J. Eric Sandoval

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 3

** SPOILER HEAVEN, if you have not seen it and don’t want it spoiled for you, you can see it on Amazon Prime *** Side note, I’m leaving out most unnecessary sub-plots involving the re-election campaign of David Palmer and anything involving Jack’s daughter, Kim. *** Fox Broadcasting Company’s popular counterterror action drama, 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland took a slight detour from Day 2’s radical Islam coming to nuke your

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 4 PART 1

Jack’s back, and 24’s better than ever for more than a few reason.  Not just because there was no Kim, but in Season 4, as if Sean Callery‘s music wasn’t already some of the best soundtrack music on television, he upped his game and it got better than ever.  Season 4 had the most memorable music of the entire series from Season 1 all the way to the very end,

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 4 part 2

Marianne Taylor is killed when she attempts helping Curtis at the office she shared with Powell, and Curtis is captured by Forbes (Richard Marcus) but he turns it around and kills 2 men, evading recapture until Jack arrives to back him up just in time to retake the override device so Edgar can stop the meltdowns. Marwan escapes, but his alias of Harris Barnes leads them to McClennen Forster. Paul

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 5 Part 1

Season 4, was my favorite before they jumped the shark, but it was Season 5 that got me thinking that my joke might not be a joke at all. For the newbies… “If you ever wanted to know what the Anglo American Establishment (Empire) is up to just watch 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, they’ll tell you.” Season 5 was ranked as the best season of 24, even though I personally

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 5 Part 2

*** ALERT — SPOILER HEAVEN***Jack offers Theo Stoller (Henry Ian Cusick), a German Intelligence agent gathering intelligence on Collette’s clients, the WET List when he refuses to cooperate with CTU in the apprehension of Stenger, whom just sold Bierko some schematics, which upset everyone at CTU/DHS and gets Chloe in a heap of trouble. But they breathe easy again when Jack fuck’s Stoller and it self destructs on him before

TRUE LIES ON 24 - DAY 6 Part 1

**ALERT — SPOILER HEAVEN*** Previously on 24, Season 5, my joke became a thesis on 24 being a mechanism for not just selling the War On Terror, but normalizing torture, crisis normalization, as well a means of disseminating truthful information through fictional programming. At risk of redundancy, you are being lied to 24/7 – 365 on every news outlet in all 50 states and beyond. But you are being given

MS, MY PATH TO EMPOWERMENT

Some people think I’m crazy for saying this, but being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis was the best thing ever to happen to me.  It was without a doubt, the single worst news I had ever received in the entirety of not only the 38 years before I was diagnosed, but the 9 years that passed since then.  I’ve had people that I loved dearly suddenly befall an untimely tragic death,

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, SO WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN EATING??

We’ve all heard that old school phrase before, “you are what you eat.” Surely somebody’s mother if not your own or a teacher or television character somewhere on down the line in your life must’ve uttered the phrase, “you are what you eat” in your presence , no? But let me ask you something. What in the hell have you been eating? Ya know, I’d actually always known that I

SPICY JAMAICAN ETHIOPIAN FUSION UDON

Since coming to Japan to help Mrs S with the caregiving of her mother in her last days on Planet Earth, naturally I’ve been eating a lot of Japanese food.  I love Japanese food, and really can’t get enough.  I’ll more likely than not be blogging about a whole lot of different foods, snacks, and delicacies in the near future.  However, I also love my food that I cook.  I

EASY PEASY OKONOMIYAKI

I has been said that I am a fussy eater, which is something George Carlin once said is just a nice way of saying a big pain in the ass.  Mrs S could easily tell you that I didn’t exactly warm up to most Japanese food right away.  Unless you live in a major metropolitan area such as Los Angeles, where I’d lived for close to 25 years before having