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Pixels
The Happy Madison/Columbia Pictures big-budget, big-screen remake of the brilliant short film “Pixels,” by Patrick Jean, could never be as brilliant or cool as the short was. I wanted to see it anyway,...
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Find Me at GenCon Indy! (the 2015 edition)
I’m exhibiting at GenCon Indy with Jim Zub and Tracy Hickman this week. You can find us at booth 1935. We have new pins and badge holders, and all eleven print editions of Schlock Mercenary, along with...
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Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
I was at Gen Con Indy last weekend, so I didn’t make it to Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation until the Tuesday after it opened. I really liked it. The action was taken to super-spy levels of...
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Fantastic Four
I’m afraid I don’t have anything nice to say. FANTASTIC FOUR: I haven’t had to work this hard to not fall asleep since Transformers 2. — Howard Tayler (@howardtayler) August 7, 2015 For the record, I...
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Henry Cavill’s “Superman” is not nearly as entertaining a hero as is his “Napoleon Solo” in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. My oldest daughter and I took in the movie Friday night, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E....
View ArticleSasquan Report
I haven’t attended a WorldCon without exhibiting since 2009 in Montreal. Sasquan, held in Spokane, Washington, would have been a fine show at which to exhibit, but I didn’t really want to spend the...
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Hitman: Agent 47
Hitman: Agent 47 does nothing to set itself apart from other action movies, and is kind of predictable from start to finish. Still, it didn’t actually disappoint me, so it enters my list at #17, safely...
View ArticleMy Best Meal Ever
The title of this post is a stake in the ground, and I recognize that it calls out something that is by definition a moving target. If, at some future date, I enjoy a meal that displaces my Thursday,...
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American Ultra
I saw American Ultra just one day after seeing Hitman: Agent 47, and the similarities between the two are misleading: Super-agents with amazing abilities Physics-defying stunts Protagonist who is...
View ArticleArborianzo Fruit Salad
(I originally called this recipe “Arborio and Bean Fruit Salad,” but that sounded boring. So I did some word-melding, and tried “Garbanzarborio Fruit Salad,” but that sounded dangerous, and silly.)...
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The Transporter: Refueled
Let’s get this out of the way. The Transporter: Refueled, is 2002’s The Transporter, rebooted. It’s not really a refueling of the franchise, and I can’t help but think “booting” as that thing with the...
View ArticleI’m Sorry. That Will Have To Wait Until I Return from The Caribbean.
This Saturday Sandra and I fly to Florida, and from there embark upon a Caribbean cruise with our friends from Writing Excuses, and about a hundred fellow writers. The event is the 2015 Out of Excuses...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Get Back to Work
I’m back from the Caribbean. This was the first cruise Sandra and I have taken. We had a great time, and will be taking more of these in the future. For now, I have a huge pile of work to get back to....
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Everest
I was pretty sure I didn’t actually need a cinematic event to convince me not to put climbing Everest on my bucket list, but I’m extra convinced now. The film was powerful, and beautiful, and tragic....
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The Martian
“The movie is never as good as the book.” Actually… not never. The Martian just cleared that bar. And in an even more amazing, and seemingly impossible twist on that thing everybody knows, not only is...
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ARK: Survival Evolved Tree Forts and Dinosaurs
I love playing co-op games with my kids. When I looked at ARK: Survival Evolved (currently in Early Access on Steam) it looked like just such a thing. When I dug into it and learned that I could host a...
View ArticleBusiness Meeting in Bed
Sandra and I will often end our day with a quick discussion of what’s on the docket for the next day. Last night was typical. *** SANDRA: “After I get the kids off to school I need to ship some...
View ArticleSkunkworks Schlock Site
We’re mid-project here at Chez Schlock, but http://x.schlockapp.com is in a state where it’ll function nicely as a mirror if things go wrong with the official Schlock Mercenary server. The biggest...
View ArticleThat DNS Thingy Yesterday
Yesterday there was a connectivity outage around one of our DNS name servers at bkwm.com. This wouldn’t have been noticeable to the general public, except unbeknownst to us, the hosting provider for...
View ArticleTaking Calendars off the Calendar
To quote Professor Farnsworth: “Good news, everyone! Bad news!” We will not be producing a Schlock Mercenary Monthly Calendar for 2016. The 2015 calendar sold well enough with other merchandise to not...
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