Posted in Cool Stuff, Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I have made no secret of my great love for the works of E. E. “Doc” Smith. I am currently one book away from finishing his classic Lensman series, and still can’t get over the wonderful way that he merges incredibly cool and imaginative ideas, exciting storytelling, immense grandeur, and extremely fun corniness.
So I was [...]
Posted in Comics, Reviews on September 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been reading an awful lot of comic books lately. Not because I particularly prefer them to normal ol’ books (having a preference at all there would be awfully silly) but because they challenge and entice an entirely different part of my brain than my school reading does, making them a better break from that [...]
Posted in Administrative, Blogroll, Cool Stuff, Flynn, Movies, Pirates, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Melody over at Redeeming Qualities has invented a holiday that warms me right to my little heart. So read the book, watch the movie, maybe save the life of a revolutionary, liberate a bunch of slaves, or sack Cartagena if you like, because it’s Captain Blood Day!
Posted in Comics, Reviews on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
So, it took me a little longer to get to my review of Stan Lee’s The Last Fantastic Four Story than I intended to, but I’ve found the time, and here we are.
Now, it seems that the basic consensus amongst internet reviewers has been that it isn’t too good–it’s far too silly and old fashioned [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Reviews, Sci-Fi on September 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Hey everyone, I’m back-ish. My time for personal reading has gone down considerably during the last few weeks (thankfully, however, I’ve been reading some pretty cool stuff for school: expect a write-up of the Sundiata epic soon) but I’ve managed to get it in where I can. For example, I just recently finished up the [...]
Posted in Administrative on September 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Regrettably, I am very quickly learning that the load of work required for this, my first semester at a four-year college, is going to take up quite alot of my time. Not exactly a surprise, I’ll warrant. The point is that reading for my own pleasure, as well as the act of writing about said [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Movies, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So, apparently Turner Classic Movies is the place to go for strange, obscure, generally not-good swashbucklers. (For the record, they show alot of good movies too.) Not long after my recent discovery of the abysmal The Black Knight, I was treated to a double bill of films starring someone I’d never heard of: Louis Hayward. [...]
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