Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Rants, Swashbuckling on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
My girlfriend is currently reading The Three Musketeers for the first time, which naturally fills me with delight. That she is reading the most swashbuckling of all novels, by my favorite author of all time, and reading the same beaten copy that began my love for Dumas, is wonderful. It’s also a great way to [...]
Posted in Administrative, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff, Rants, Swashbuckling on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have, so far, done my best to avoid talking much about my own writing. After all, what’s the point of being so self-indulgent, especially when I don’t actually have anything published which I can shamelessly shill? Nonetheless, the feeling of a weight off the shoulders is incredible right now, as I just finished editing [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Movies, Sci-Fi on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Ron Howard in Talks for the Lensman Series
Huh, not sure how I feel about this, but chances of it happening are still pretty slim anyway. They’d have to write pretty much all new dialogue, that’s for damn sure… but would that ruin the charm?
Posted in Rants, Sci-Fi, Verne on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
(I found these great pictures at The Annotated Jules Verne, a website that collects lots of beautiful and fun old artwork from Verne’s works. There’s a ton of stuff there, and I highly recommend browsing it.)
I hate translation problems. Part of this probably comes from growing up the son of a film buff (and a [...]
Posted in Pirates, Reviews, Salgari, Swashbuckling on January 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So, I know that I have already rambled a good deal about the insanely-popular, but virtually unheard-of to English-speakers, series character known as Sandokan. (For your edification, I previously discussed him here and here.)
Having now read the first book, Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem, I must say that I can see what all the fuss [...]
Posted in Horror, Reviews, Sci-Fi on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I know it’s been covered, but I felt that I should say a little something about I Am Legend, which I just read (and which only takes a few days to breeze through, at the longest).
I first heard of the story, and its bizarre title, when some of the new version was filmed outside my [...]
Posted in Baron, Comics on January 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ever since my earliest days as a young fan of superhero comics, one of my favorites amongst the “long underwear” heroes has been Mike Baron’s Badger, a seminally strange character if ever there was one.
The most basic conceit of Badger, in a nutshell, is that he’s crazy. And not darkly tortured and disturbed like some [...]
Posted in Pirates, Salgari, Swashbuckling on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Sorry I’ve hardly been here, but I needed recuperative time back home with the family. On both plane flights, however, I amused myself with the first book in the aforementioned Sandokan series. It’s quite a lot of fun in an adolescent sort of way, and I don’t mean that as a bad thing, but I’ll [...]
 | Brandon on Yeeaaahhh… |
 | slickdpdx on Yeeaaahhh… |
 | mike moreno - delaw… on Bullets Fear Me |
 | Fortuna on Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, A… |
| slickdpdx on The Deluge |
