The Duck Knight
I bought this new computer, see, and re-discovered my love of PC games (particularly a wonderful gem called Marvel: Ultimate Alliance), and when that got old, I re-discovered my love of Guild Wars, so you know, the past few months from a computing perspective have been kind of a beautiful, inscrutable multi-colored blur. I will therefore attempt to encapsulate recent trends with hard-hitting bullet points. THUSLY:
1. After 23 years, Howard the Duck is finally on DVD. Yes, Howard the Duck is finally on DVD. I made sure to pick up mine before they were all gone, and of course before I told anyone else it was available. As many of you are no doubt aware, we are within two years of George Lucas' predicted date of the films' broad-based mainstream acceptance. The clock is ticking, fellow cinéastes.
I'm a huge fan of the Howard the Duck comic book franchise as well as the movie, surprisingly enough for different reasons. Also for the record I would like to note that I really enjoyed Lea Thompson's underrated performance as Beverly, which I think was very true to the original character, but most people won't see it since they haven't read the comic book.
2. MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 has a website! The game's story will apparently start with Secret War and will continue through Civil War, neither of which I intend to spoil for the uninformed. Suffice it to say that it's all either Nick Fury's fault or George W. Bush's, or both.
3. Myself, lezardvaleth, flamedragon and Captain justintime2k will be in full effect at this year's Project A-kon! Most likely doing things entirely unrelated to the event itself, at least until they give us our own panel talking about what it truly means to live the figurative pirate experience. Someday!
4. On Thursdays and Fridays I've been going to my friend Ed's house and we've been watching movies on his 63-inch DLP television, and to date the Bob & Ed Film Society has been burning through both our modest collections at a considerable pace. Roommate Jeff was formerly a welcome addition to our weekly screenings, he has however been since lost to civilization due to his commitments to Warhammer Online. I asked Jeff is this game made him happy. He sighed. "Well Bob," he says, "I'm happier than I'd be without it." I'm not sure if that's a ringing endorsement or a confession to a sadomasochistic relationship.
5. Today is of course the comic book fan's equivalent of Sunday - namely, New Comics Day. In addition to all the great Marvel Comics that ship every Wednesday, we comic fans also celebrate the weekly arrival of new titles by the satisfaction we receive at all the DC Comics we're NOT buying, hopefully one day starving this moribund, palsied arm of the great Time-Warner empire that it might atrophy, fall off and shrivel into ash, so they can concentrate on using their superhero properties for movies like The Dark Knight.
I also want to thank the Academy for passing over The Dark Knight for Best Picture, thus propelling the film into the same dizzying heights of renown as authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon and others, who are in such a rarefied atmosphere of fame, accomplishment and literary gravitas that they are of the class of literary craftsmen who are said to deserve the Nobel Prize and never receive it, which is an even more exclusive clique than those writers who actually have.
That's all for now. Not going to overdo it the first day back!
1. After 23 years, Howard the Duck is finally on DVD. Yes, Howard the Duck is finally on DVD. I made sure to pick up mine before they were all gone, and of course before I told anyone else it was available. As many of you are no doubt aware, we are within two years of George Lucas' predicted date of the films' broad-based mainstream acceptance. The clock is ticking, fellow cinéastes.
I'm a huge fan of the Howard the Duck comic book franchise as well as the movie, surprisingly enough for different reasons. Also for the record I would like to note that I really enjoyed Lea Thompson's underrated performance as Beverly, which I think was very true to the original character, but most people won't see it since they haven't read the comic book.
2. MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 has a website! The game's story will apparently start with Secret War and will continue through Civil War, neither of which I intend to spoil for the uninformed. Suffice it to say that it's all either Nick Fury's fault or George W. Bush's, or both.
3. Myself, lezardvaleth, flamedragon and Captain justintime2k will be in full effect at this year's Project A-kon! Most likely doing things entirely unrelated to the event itself, at least until they give us our own panel talking about what it truly means to live the figurative pirate experience. Someday!
4. On Thursdays and Fridays I've been going to my friend Ed's house and we've been watching movies on his 63-inch DLP television, and to date the Bob & Ed Film Society has been burning through both our modest collections at a considerable pace. Roommate Jeff was formerly a welcome addition to our weekly screenings, he has however been since lost to civilization due to his commitments to Warhammer Online. I asked Jeff is this game made him happy. He sighed. "Well Bob," he says, "I'm happier than I'd be without it." I'm not sure if that's a ringing endorsement or a confession to a sadomasochistic relationship.
5. Today is of course the comic book fan's equivalent of Sunday - namely, New Comics Day. In addition to all the great Marvel Comics that ship every Wednesday, we comic fans also celebrate the weekly arrival of new titles by the satisfaction we receive at all the DC Comics we're NOT buying, hopefully one day starving this moribund, palsied arm of the great Time-Warner empire that it might atrophy, fall off and shrivel into ash, so they can concentrate on using their superhero properties for movies like The Dark Knight.
I also want to thank the Academy for passing over The Dark Knight for Best Picture, thus propelling the film into the same dizzying heights of renown as authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon and others, who are in such a rarefied atmosphere of fame, accomplishment and literary gravitas that they are of the class of literary craftsmen who are said to deserve the Nobel Prize and never receive it, which is an even more exclusive clique than those writers who actually have.
That's all for now. Not going to overdo it the first day back!