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Microreview [book]: The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself by Ian Sales
Sales, Ian. The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself [Whippleshield, 2013]The MeatThe most difficult reviews to write, I find, are of the books that affect you most deeply. After all, it's easy...
View ArticleAiIP: The Anti-Amazon Experiment, Phase Two
So for the last several weeks, I have been brainstorming how to make a success of this. For those of you just joining us (me), I recently pulled my book off Amazon for a variety of reasons. Mostly...
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Microreview [film] : The Great British Sci-Fi Xperiment : X The Unknown (1956)
Delving into post-war cautionary sci-fi films is like sorting pebbles on a beach. There are too many, and many are too similar. And there is seaweed everywhere. Well, not the last bit. So instead of...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Apple was in the spotlight yesterday, not only for their newly announced products, but for their stance on Matt Fraction's Sex Criminals. As of this writing the comic was "under review" and not...
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Halloween ComicFest
The second annual Halloween ComicFest is almost here! This Saturday marks the return of one of my favorite events at my LCS last year. What is not to like about free mini-comics, candy, costumes, and...
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Justified and Suspension of Disbelief in Television
One peculiar strength of literature and film is its ability to provoke suspension of disbelief. While reading (or watching), you can exit the reality of your daily life and enter the reality of the...
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Microreview [TV]: Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Season 2
The MeatA few weeks ago I reviewed the first season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, and found it to be, hands down, the best Scooby-Doo series ever made. I was bummed to find out, then, that...
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Microreview [book]: Bitterroot by James Lee Burke
Burke, James Lee. Bitterroot [Pocket Books, 2002]The MeatRead enough crime fiction and you realize that it basically comes in two flavors. There's the "whodunit," where a sleuth moves through a limited...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Happy Halloween! I hope you all were able to pick up some free comics this past weekend during Halloween ComicFest. My family had a nice time and we were able to pick up some additional bundles of...
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
first, a little backgroundDespite it holding the Guinness' Book World Record for Most Games in an Action/Adventure Series, I have only played the first game on the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System...
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Ender's Game: Heart but no smarts
I was interrupted by a demon with red eyes and a doctor princess while I was buying my tickets online to see Ender's Game. It was Halloween, a Thursday, and I accidentally bought 10:00 tickets for that...
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All Hail the Black Company!
Thoughts on Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company (The Black Company, 1-3) and The Books of the South(The Black Company, 4-6).I was a latecomer to the triumphs and travails of the Black Company....
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Microreview [film] : The Great British Sci-Fi Xperiment - The First MenIn The...
The Meat and Two Veg :This film is a bit lovely, frankly. It was based, none too faithfully, on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, and was preceded by both a more loyal adaption, lost in time, and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
The Walking Dead and Skybound have created Movember team entitled Abraham's Army. It not only celebrates the mustachioed man, it is raising money for men's health and I would encourage all of you to...
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Microreview [book]: Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin et al
The MeatSo here's the thing: as I've mentioned before, anthologies kind of weird me out with their haphazardness, and this one's no exception. Reading it is like going on one of those bottom-drops-out...
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Microreview [book]: Drug of Choice by John Lange/Michael Crichton
Lange, John [Michael Crichton]. Drug of Choice [Hard Case Crime, 2013]Available via: Independent Booksellers; AmazonThe MeatNot too long ago a weighty package arrived from Hard Case Crime, one of my...
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Microreview [music]: Deltron 3030 - Event II
Available via: AmazonThe MeatIn The Year 2000, Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien, and Kid Koala (along with a whole raft of guest stars) made my favorite hip-hop album of all-time, Deltron...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Movember is going strong for Abraham's Army thus far. The team has raised over $1,300 and you can contribute if you are so inclined here. Big week in comics. The first arc of Artful Daggers came to...
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AiIP: Amazon Strikes Back
In what I can only assume* is in response to my boycott of Amazon in favor of pursuing sales through indie bookstores and other avenues, the sales giant and new face of publishing announced that indie...
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Guest Post: Why I Turned my Back on the Masters by Ian Sales
Ian Sales has been published in a number of magazines and original anthologies. In 2012, he edited the original anthology Rocket Science for Mutation Books. He founded Whippleshield Books, through...
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