Friday, August 03, 2012

The TRS-80

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35 years ago Radio Shack announced the TRS-80 Microcomputer. I ordered one two weeks later and finally got delivery just before Christmas. 1...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Life imitates art - the Batman shootings

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A major sub-plot in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns is the idea that costumed heroes inspire costumed villains. In the backstory ...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Time Keeping

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We got a new clock alarm a few days ago. You don't even have to set the time. Just plug it in and it finds the time. That got me remembe...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Mulan and the Princesses

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My daughter pointed out that, unlike other Disney princesses, Mulan has both parents. Since the plot centers around her trying to bring hono...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Brave - is Merida a Disney Princess?

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Pixar's first dozen movies featured male characters. Most of them were non-human males but even WALL-E had a male personality compared w...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Secret Identities

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I recently wrote about Spider-Man's wisecracks. This got me to thinking about the differences between a costumed hero and his secret ide...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Getting Spider-Man Right

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There were problems with the first three Spider-Man movies but they got a lot right. Tobey Maguire was perfect as Peter Parker. He embodied ...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Smart Phones

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Verizon announced changes to their plans that would have seriously increased by monthly phone charge. I was eligible for an upgrade anyway s...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Addams Family and the Munsters

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A new Munsters movie is in the works. The Addams Family had its turn at the movies two decades ago. Originally, they competed with each othe...
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Friday, June 01, 2012

Gays in Comics

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DC announced that a Allan Scott, the Green Lantern from an alternate Earth is gay. So far DC has had a black Green Lantern, a Hispanic one, ...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Attack of the Fill-ins

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The 1970s were a bad time for comic books. Demand was down and many traditional outlets like supermarkets stopped carrying comics. There wer...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Men In Black 3

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The big question about this movie is why? It's been 14 years since the original one and a decade since the disappointing sequel. Will Sm...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Dark Shadows - the Movie

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Fans of the Dark Shadows TV show started worrying about the Tim Burton version as soon as the first trailer came out. Fortunately, the trail...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Dark Shadows the series

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With the Tim Burton Dark Shadows out today, I thought I would take another look back at the series. It started as a dream - literally. Produ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Thanos and Warlock

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Yesterday I started a capsule summary of Thanos, the guy who appeared at the end of the Avengers movie. Before I go on I have to backtrack a...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Thanos

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Since nearly everyone in the world seems to have seen the Avengers, I'm not giving away much but talking about the scene at the end of t...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Star Wars to Avengers

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Today is Star Wars Day and the premier of the Avengers. Assuming that the Avengers meets expectations as a summer blockbuster, it will owe e...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Review - the Questionable Tails

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I was searching Barnes and Noble for steampunk books and found The Questionable Tails: A Steampunk Trio by Michael Seeley. It was free so I...
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...