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Review: Coral Hare: Atomic Agent (A WW2 Spy Novel) Inspired by actual historical events
Coral Hare: Atomic Agent (A WW2 Spy Novel) Inspired by actual historical events by Clive Lee My rating: 5 of 5 stars Disclaimer: I received this book for free for review purposes Let me just say this up front: I believe Clive Lee deserves high praise for his writing in Coral Hare for maintaining a…
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A thought while in the pool today
I’d love to see either (or both?) Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith take on an updated film adaptation of Catch-22. The dialog is so important in the book and those guys are masters of dialog.
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Other Articles I’ve written recently
This’ll be a semi-recurring blog post highlighting some of my work on other websites. (Most often, but not necessarily, other sites I own/run) Race Flipping in Comic Movies over at Comic POW! in which I discuss Johnny Storm being cast with an African American actor in the new film. Autobiographies: Swimming Part 1 over at…
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drop the bomb productions
I’m moving my videos from drupal to here. It is just too much work without much payoff to maintain it as its own site. More to come here in the future. Legal Stuff All the clips on this site are copylefted to drop the bomb productions and its sole member, Eric Mesa. Where others have…
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Five Iron Frenzy and Reel Big Fish Concert in Silver Springs, MD
On 6 Nov I went to my 2013 concert. Because of time and money concerns, Danielle and I typically go to a maximum of two concerts a year, and usually just one concert. I was completely unable to resist seeing Five Iron Frenzy in their first tour since breaking up nearly a decade ago. I…
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Happy Lawsuit To You
I first heard about the copyright on Happy Birthday To You when watching Aaron Sorkin’s Sport’s Night: (BTW – I don’t remember that show having a laugh track. Quite jarring) I felt just as incredulous as that guy. Still, even the most obvious things, like zippers, have to come from someone’s brain. I didn’t think…
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Voice Acting on Children’s toys
When I really got into animation a few years ago, I started appreciating a lot of the aspects of animation that people don’t even realize took work. For example, in a live action movie the set designers can go buy chairs and lamps and lights. Everything in an animated work has to be created from…
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The Kickstarter Lull
Those of you who have been reading this blog long enough know that I often write my blog posts during my lunch break at work and set it to post at some point in the future. I’m writing this post almost 1 month before it is to appear on the blog. So in the middle…
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K-Pop and 10 of their Crazy Music Videos
K-Pop has been making a splash in America in a big way. Although they have nearly subsumed all music in Asia and are getting big in parts of Europe and the Middle East, K-Pop in the USA seems to be about where J-Pop was during the height of the anime/manga crazy in the last 1990s…
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Returning to Universal Studios
The last time I went to Universal Studios Orlando was nearly 20 years ago for Rock the Universe 1999. It was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done – enjoying the park by day with all my close friends and then a series of concerts at night. Despite getting soaked by the night-time…
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Review: Man of Steel
I had no intention of seeing Man of Steel in the movie theater; I was voting for Monsters University. I’ve grown quite tired with the constant universe rebooting. We all know where Superman (or Batman or Spider-Man etc) came from. Can we not waste another 2+ hours and $millions to retell that. Why can’t we…
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Photo Opportunities in your own backyard
It’s easy to lust after photo opportunities elsewhere as I did in a recent post. But when you find that happening, just remember there’s a whole world in your backyard. If you live in an urban neighborhood like the protagonist of Pecker, you can focus on portraits and street photography – candid or otherwise. But…
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Zach Braff’s Kickstarter
A little over a month ago I came across an article on Boing Boing about the movie Zach Braff was trying to get funded via Kickstarter. It was interesting time as I had just contributed to two Kickstarter projects for the first time – I Fight Dragons’ Project Atma and the Code Monkey comic by…
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Disney Princess Culture Part 1
I titled this Part 1 because I am sure I’ll have to revisit this topic in the future. Scarlett is only 1 and she barely cares for television, much less Disney animated films. However, if you don’t think about the future, it has a way of surprising you and finding you unprepared. Of course,…