Heaven and Earth (aka Ten to Chi to) (1990) – I’ve been listening to this soundtrack for almost thirty years; I finally watched the movie. It’s beautifully shot, with massive 15th-century Japanese armies contending with each other (shot in Canada because there aren’t that many wide open spaces left in Japan). The story… well, it’s…
At last, something to pry from my cold, dead hands.
Three years after I joined the NRA, I finally own a gun. It’s a Rock Island Armory M200, one of the handguns that the mighty Brad Torgersen brought when he took me to the range a week ago. My hands are small and (ahem) delicate, so .38 Special was about the biggest round I felt…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
A day late because my desktop computer died yesterday morning (apparently it couldn’t handle the Windows update that it took it upon itself to install overnight).
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
One up for sale in my Etsy store… …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Brave New Seuss
(I posted this to social media yesterday, and I’m so darned proud of it that I’m putting it here for posterity.) You may have heard that six of Dr. Seuss’ books are no longer going to be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong” and are no longer being published…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
Two for sale in my Etsy shop… …and the rest from my sketchbook:
Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?
Here’s a little gem from my files. I think I picked this up around 1990; there’s no date on the pamphlet, but internal evidence points to it being authored in 1982 or 1983. It’s a concatenation of cherry-picked quotes, out-of-context evidence, and just plain wrongness. (This pamphlet is still the only place I’ve ever heard…
Movies Seen Recently: Swamp of the Lost Souls, Danger Island, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Swamp of the Lost Souls (aka El Pantanos de las Animas) (1957) – This reminded me more than a little of The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956): both movies are 95% Western soap-opera (Swamp is a Mexican-made, Spanish-language one), with 5% extraneous monster movie thrown in. Beast had a bad man-in-suit dinosaur; Swamp has a…
A new edition of The Golden Age of Crap.
I’ve been working on this, off and on, for so long that it’s embarrassing. But I’m putting finishing touches on the cover (of which this may or may not be the final version) and the formatting right now.