Monday, April 30, 2012

Avengers Assemble

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In the early 1960s, the publishers from National Comics and Timely Comics used to get together regularly to play golf. At one of these games...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Logan's Run to Star Wars

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Over the weekend TCM showed some 1970s science fiction movies including Logan's Run. I think that the theme was actually science fiction...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Jonathan Frid

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Jonathan Frid, the original Barnabas Collins, has died of natural causes at the age of 87. Frid was a classically-trained actor who spent mo...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Comics on tablets

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If the future of books is tablets then what is the future of comic books? I just explored a couple of options. I am using a Nook Color which...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Bad Cars

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I've watched a couple of episodes of the US version of Top Gear. One was on dangerous cars and the other was on "uncool" cars....
Friday, March 30, 2012

The flop that wasn't

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John Carter has gone down as one of the biggest flops in movie history. Disney projected that they might lose $200 million on it. Except it ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

John Carter - What Happened?

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John Carter is a great adventure movie but it looks like it will be a financial flop for Disney. What happened? The movie got mixed reviews ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Monster Man

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SyFy followed the second season of its make-up effects contest show with a new series - Monster Man. This is about a firm that does custom m...

Nook problems and solutions

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A couple of weeks ago we flew to Florida. I took my Nook Touch and my Nook Color. Since I have a dual boot installed on the Color, it is my ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Dark Shadows

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I started watching Dark Shadows soon after it moved to the 4 pm time slot. Before that it was on while I was in school. At the time the cent...
Friday, March 09, 2012

A Princess of Mars

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It's been a long time since I read A Princess of Mars. It was probably the first book I read by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was in a collec...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Heroes and their girl friends

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A couple of days ago Wired had a column "written" by Lois Lane entitled "Dear DC Comics: Why Do You Keep Fridging Me?" ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Chronicle and Superheroes

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What would happen if some ordinary people suddenly received super powers? Superman and the Fantastic Four are the best case examples - they ...
Friday, February 10, 2012

My Nook Color

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Around a year ago I got a tablet - a 10" G-Tablet from Viewsonic. When it came out it got fairly bad reviews, mainly because of the way...
Monday, February 06, 2012

Hugo and the Artist

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I suspect that this year's Best Picture Oscar will go to either Hugo or The Artist. Both are good movies. They also play to one of the A...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Nook Color

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When Amazon and Barnes & Noble announced their new tablets everyone focused on the price difference between the Kindle Fire and the Nook...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

The Facebook IPO

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In case you are tempted by the Facebook IPO, remember, this is a company that has nearly a billion clients and most of them hate Facebook. T...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Educational channels?

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I've been watching Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet. Like History Channel's Monster Quest , this starts with the proposition that u...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Oscars - best animated film

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What can I say? The Adventures of Tintin was robbed. It won the Golden Globe for best animated movie and wasn't even nominated for an Os...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Best Animated Movie

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The Golden Globe nominations for best animated movie were The Adventures of Tintin, Arthur Christmas, Cars 2, Puss in Boots, and Rango. Tint...