Eggs non-Benedict, maybe Genoa?
I woke up this morning having dreamed a recipe, and it turned out pretty good. Basted eggs over a bed of fettuccine with pesto and fresh basil. Ready? 1 or 2 eggs. Fresh (refrigerator-section)...
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The Jungle Book
There’s no way to film the Mowgli stories from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book absent the influence of the 1967 Disney classic, which casts a long shadow. Several such films have been made, and most...
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I’ve been Powerpuffed by Lar DeSouza
I love this caricature a lot. Lar DeSouza has been doing these in conjunction with his MS Walk charity drive, which ends at the end of April. Oh, and he’s been doing the art live on his twitch.tv...
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Looking Pretty Good…
A package arrived from our printer. It was full of pieces of paper for us to look at before committing to the print run for Force Multiplication. It’s looking pretty good. The painstaking hours (and...
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Ratchet & Clank
Neither of the adult children (ages 20 and 18) I took to this film had ever actually played the Ratchet & Clank games. Both of them loved the film. I was pleasantly surprised by it. In particular I...
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Captain America: Civil War
Stake in the ground: Captain America: Civil War is the best Spider-Man movie we’ve had so far. It is also a solid Avengers movie, an unflinching follow-up to Age of Ultron. It is a pretty good Captain...
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Pre-Orders Open on Monday
Pre-orders for Force Multiplication, Schlock Mercenary Book 12, will open on Monday, May 23rd at 8am Mountain time. We’re quite pleased with how this book turned out. The stone circuit cover design...
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The Angry Birds Movie
The Angry Birds Movie is better than it has any reason to be. Lots of movies pull this off, but this movie manages to turn a mobile puzzle game into delightful cinema. That divide is huge, the chasm...
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X-Men: Apocalypse
As much as I enjoyed this movie, I am very much ready for a superhero movie in which the story is not about how we react to the existence of superheroes. Apotheosis makes for a good story, and that’s...
View ArticleFind Me at Phoenix Comic Con
I’ll be at Phoenix Comic Con this weekend. My schedule is pretty light, and I don’t have a permanent seat in the exhibition hall, so I may be difficult to catch up with. Difficult, but not impossible:...
View ArticleSerendipitous Departure
I really like it when I get the chance to properly say “thank you.” On Thursday I discovered, after walking around the Phoenix Convention Center, that my barely-bruised-but-no-seriously-I-smashed-it...
View ArticleDeep Discounts and Quick Commissions at the Sal Velluto Benefit
My friend Sal, who was among the first comics industry professionals I met, is fighting cancer, and a bunch of us are getting together to help out. This Saturday I’ll be at Dragon’s Keep in Provo,...
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Warcraft
I have a lot to say about this film, in large measure because it did some surprising things, and it did some difficult things, and almost everything it did was done well. That stuff merits discussion....
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Force Multiplication, and Death by Cliché
We just got word that our pallets of Force Multiplication: Schlock Mercenary Book 12 will be arriving sometime “in the next week or so.” If you want your copy shipped soon, now is the time to place...
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Absurd and Nerdy
It started with a discussion of logic gates, and the futile attempt to map the seven gates onto the seven deadly sins. Sloth was invoked. At some point we (Otter, Ubersoft, and Will) began to wonder...
View ArticleCheck That Metaphor, Counselor
Context: I had Jury Duty on Wednesday. We’re done now. We reached our verdict at around 5 pm after deliberating for about an hour, and with that done, all the sequestering and no-talking stuff is done...
View ArticleForce Multiplication is Rolling In
Sandra and Keliana are down at the Hypernode Warehouse awaiting a truck full of Force Multiplication. Signing, sketching, packing, and shipping are the activities that will soon come to dominate the...
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Independence Day: Resurgence
On its own merits, Independence Day: Resurgence suffers from a little bit of sequelitis, a lot of “bigger=better,” and felt longer than it really was despite so many cool things happening on screen. I...
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Force Multiplication is in The House
Sandra and Keliana ushered a couple of pallets of books into the Hypernode Warehouse late last week. This is the first time we’ve taken delivery of books when I haven’t been there to crack open the...
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Finding Dory
I put off watching this movie because I remember how deeply affected I was by Finding Nemo. I needed to pick a good mental-health day in which I could come home with time and head-space to process. You...
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