If you want to see me at SLCC, here’s your stalking guide! Thursday September 24, 2015 4:00 pm Creating Horror: How to Scare the Crap Out of People Room 255F (with Jason A. Anderson, Michael R. Collings, Michaelbrent Collings, Steve Diamond, Craig Nybo, Lehua Parker) Thursday September 24, 2015 7:00 pm H.P. Lovecraft & Horror: The Joys…
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New Art: “The God of Tetanus”
Been working on this for a while, on-and-off. (Yes, that’s a coyote skull I collected myself.)
The latest bad idea: A post-apocalyptic movie book.
As I mentioned on Facebook last week, I was toying with the idea of a book reviewing every post-apocalyptic movie ever made in chronological order. There were many yea and nay comments (or as I like to think of them, the sensible and the enablers), and good friend Allan Richards pointed out that an already…
Movies Seen Recently: Predator: Dark Ages, Cyborg, 10,000 B.C.
Predator: Dark Ages (2015) – This one’s a fan film, so you don’t need to feel guilty about torrenting it. And it demonstrates that, really, unless it’s a $200 million Avengers vs. Micronauts movie, what do we really need Hollywood for anymore? This Kickstarter-funded 25-minute short shows a handful of Templars (not really “Dark Ages,”…
Movies Seen Recently: Escape From New York, Oblivion, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Escape From New York (1981) – Time for the shameful admission: I’d never seen it before. Time for the second shameful admission: I didn’t think it was all that great. I mean, yes, indie film, yes, audacious premise, Kurt Russell sure looks cool, yes, but… It’s just a little bland, you know? I mean, New…
Movies Seen Recently: Saints & Soldiers: Airborne Creed, The Book of Eli, Pandorum
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012) – Corbin Allred, star of the first Saints and Soldiers movie, returns as a different character (obviously, because he died in the first one). In this one, three paratroopers behind enemy lines in France try to hook up with friendly forces and evade Nazi patrols with the help of…
New Art Things!
You remember the good ol’ days, before Facebook and Twitter and Instragram and such became the centerpiece of everyone’s surfing, when everyone was blogging and fully half of the new posts every week were sorry I haven’t posted for a while? Yeah, I’m old-school like that. It’s kind of a catch-22, though. See, I’ve got a…
Of Milestones and Metrics
Yesterday was my birthday; I turned the ripe young age of forty-four. Yesterday was also my twenty-second wedding anniversary. That means that, as of today, I have been married for more of my life than not. Age is a bizarre thing. We often joke that children attach so much more importance to their birthdays because…
Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply Giveaway
Oh hey, this is the one relevant venue where I haven’t plugged the giveaway I’m running on Goodreads. Three copies of the Special Sketch Edition of Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply: Goodreads Book Giveaway Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply by Nathan Shumate Giveaway ends July 03, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to…
Movies Seen Recently: Tall in the Saddle, The Land That Time Forgot, Exodus: Gods and Kings
Tall in the Saddle (1944) – John Wayne! Gabby Hayes! Two women, a blonde and a brunette, vying for John Wayne’s attentions! Rustling and land grabs and legal schemes and a corrupt sheriff and unknown assassins! What’s not to like? Aside, I guess, from Wayne ending up with the wrong woman (IMHO)… By the way, my…