I really gotta start thinking of titles for these, because I hate seeing stuff with names like “Untitled #22.”

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) – I’m mostly glad that this take on “Jack and the Beanstalk” wasn’t a standard-issue Hollywood revisionist take (you know, where the good guys from the original story are really the bad guys and vice versa, like in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Maleficent and…).  Other than that, it was…

Sculpted from polymer clay.  I think I’ll call it “This Noble Visage.”  (Pop can for scale, and also because I had to set it somewhere to take the pictures.)

I’ll be exhibiting in the art show at LTUE next month, so I’m hoping to finish up a few new pieces in preparation for that.  No, this one doesn’t have a title.

Usually, when I re-read books about which I formed an opinion in my teen years, my (ahem) mature assessment is very different, because my teenage self was an idiot.  Sometimes the re-read is a disappointment (Robert E. Howard, John A. Keel); others are complete revelations (F. Scott Fitzgerald). With my thirty-years-later re-visit of The Catcher in…

Jurassic World (2015) – All that you really need to know about this movie is that my eighteen-year-old son said, “IT’S SO AWESOME!”  Because that’s exactly who it’s designed to be awesome for: People young enough that a Jurassic Park movie is a periodic installment of more-of-the-same (in the way that people my age used…