I have so much that I owe Ray Harryhausen. In my younger days, I got my hands on on old Super 8 movie camera and tried my own hand at stop motion animation. But more than anything he brought the creatures of myth and legend to life. His work was a true art form taking infinite patience. For those many hours of entertain, I am grateful.
As a young gamer, he brought the adventures that only were in my imagination to life in brilliant color. These were tales of heroes and monsters. Thank you, Ray.
And here’s one of my own favorite iconic scenes. The skeleton fight.
TBS has a really dumb assed reality show coming up. King of the Nerds. That’s right I’m not even giving you direct link to it. Just Google the damned thing.
Trailers are supposed to make you want to watch a show. When I saw this one I just cringed and thought, “What the fuck it that?” My personal prediction.
Train wreck and the first TV bomb of 2013. Trust me on this one.
I don’t even know what they were thinking when they pitched this thing or who would have bothered to green light this thing? The only thing that I can possibly think is that the some suit at the network said< "Hey, this geeky stuff is supposed to be cool. And reality shows are cheap and cool. Let's do something like that. Put my dimwitted nephew in charge it and we'll make a mint."
What's going to come out this show? We'll probably not a damned thing. It's just going to be a little blip on the radar and then go away. Thank goodness. Now I need to watch some classic Star Trek to feel clean again.
I will not feed the trolls.
I will not waste the effort debating with them.
I will not attempt to explain things to them.
I will not waste my time being upset by them.
I will not be ashamed of who or what I am because of a troll.
I will not feed the trolls.
Pretty in Geek is really good. A group of women playing D&D with a token guy. And it just goes to show that being dysfunctional isn’t just a male trait. Watch it. You won’t be disappointed.
Evaluation & Evolution
At the end of each year, I like to sit back and evaluate where I’m heading with this blog and sort of make plans for the future. As you can tell, it’s the end of March and I’m finally getting around to doing this.
The thing is that my life has gotten really, really crazy the last six months. My mother passed away. My father moved in with me. The economy has continually taken a nose dive. And my day job usually serves up at least one kick in the balls every week. It hasn’t’ exactly been a fun time. But don’t worry. This isn’t a farewell post or “I’m going to be fewer posts” post. Nope.
I’ve been taking too much shit way too seriously of late and which pretty much hasn’t’ allowed me to do much. What that means for this blog is that you’ll probably be seeing about the same amount posts (hopefully more) but you also to seeing more off the wall posts and just some random fun.
I ain’t going away and some how I feel like I’m just starting. Hang on, kids. I’ll throwing a lot of shit at the virtual wall and see if anything sticks.
So where do all the summoned animals come from? This came up in our little gaming group a while back. I mean just think about the Summon Nature’s Ally spell for Druids. Is there a room somewhere filled with animals just waiting to be summoned? I bet it looks like a bizarre cross between Grand Central Station and Noah’s Ark. I can just see a group of dire badgers sipping on double mocha lattes; just waiting for their number to come up.
”So, Bob. You heard what happened to Frank the other day?”
”Wasn’t he summoned by that druid Urban Spawl-Killer?”
”Yeah, he never came back. Just like that bear the other day.”
”Joe was such a nice guy.”
”We could ask Tom the Weseal. He came back.”
”Are you kidding? Tom went bat shit insane. He keeps screaming that the Orcs are gonna get him.”
”You ever notice that most of us never come back after being summoned. And the few that do, just don’t come back right.”
”Wow. It really sucks to be us.”
”Yeah.”
”Paging! Bob the dire badger. Bob the dire badger! You’ve been summoned by Urban Sprawl-Killer. Bob please report for summoning.”
”Shit.”








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