Category Archives: Those lesser mediums

Duuune

Posted on November 29, 2021 by admin

Dune is one of those books you had to read during my high school, along with the Lord of the Rings, the Foundation series, and anything by Herman Hesse, or you just weren’t cool. I was cool, so I read … Continue reading →

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A Continuous Episode of Episodes

Posted on April 29, 2018 by admin

Netflix has started running one of the top five comedies of all times, Episodes…yeah, yeah, I know, I already picked the top five comedies ever and made nary a mention of it but, hey, it’s one of the best comedies … Continue reading →

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Crazy about Subways

Posted on March 16, 2015 by admin

(image courtesy of http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/METRO-image-143-resized.jpg-resize.jpg) I went to the Shakespeare Theater on Saturday to see a 17th Century French play called The Metromaniacs and, yeah, yeah, there’s an actual line in the play where someone asks if that means, “Crazy about … Continue reading →

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Substance over form

Posted on January 25, 2015 by admin

I saw American Sniper last night at the local Carmike. I usually do not go to Carmike’s or AMC or the other big chain movie theaters; I go to Alamo. Why? Someone brings you beer at Alamo. They don’t bring … Continue reading →

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Arrow…or Hood, whatever.

Posted on November 2, 2014 by admin

I was never a DC Comics fan. Superman: invulnerable, strongest being in the universe, so where’s the challenge? Batman: just shoot the guy, will ya, Joker? And what’s with all these Bizarro Worlds and Alternate Earths? Let’s not forget the … Continue reading →

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Ho. Lee. Cap!

Posted on April 20, 2014 by admin

Finally went to see the new Captain America. It was out-freakin’-standing, better than the first one, which had a lot of annoying stop-action fighting sequences that interrupted the flow. Not this time. This was Cap kickin’ A and takin’ names. … Continue reading →

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Random photos

Posted on April 14, 2014 by admin

Monday Night football, Eagles/Redskins, from the cheap seats: You’re not sitting here. You’re not: The last thing a mouse sees: Inside the gazebo of the von Stauffenberg summer house, Geislingen, Germany: Halloween, 2013: Peter Parker:    

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George Romero on why fast zombies suck.

Posted on September 27, 2013 by admin

If you’ve got another hour to kill (after listening to Malcolm McDowell’s Q&A below), then settle in for this Q&A with George Romero at the recent Monster-Mania. I’ll never respect a fast zombie again. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102111101/Romero%20Q%26A2.avi

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Singin’ in the Rain. And Brechtian.

Posted on September 14, 2013 by admin

If’ you’ve got about an hour to kill, then watch this hilarious Q&A with Malcolm McDowell, held during Monster-Mania 2013 (scroll down to see some of the action there). The guy is a crack-up. He reprises a little bit of Alex … Continue reading →

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A member of the Community

Posted on February 24, 2013 by admin

The NBC TV show, I mean. It is the only show I watch on that network, which may explain why NBC came in fifth behind Univision  during sweeps. And since Community only draws about 2-3 million viewers lately, looks to me like Al … Continue reading →

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