Tag: film
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Re-Boots Soon To Be Annual Thing
So, remember when a movie re-imagining, or re-boot, was a really cool thing? Me neither, but I can remember when it was interesting, even a little exciting, when some legendary TV show from the past was being considered for the Big Screen, or for a TV imagining. Michael Keaton as Tim Burton’s interpretation of Batman…
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Scratch and Sniff…
A while ago, I was reading through a blog post over at Arkenaten’s A Tale Unfolds that culminated with some nice photos, including one of a man on the street selling fish, and it ignited in me a memory of an old idea I’d get while reading the rare “scratch and sniff” book to my…
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Southpaw–My (hair)Brush with Celebrity
I worked the past week as an extra in a movie to be titled “Southpaw,” directed by Antwon Fuqua and, as I mentioned the other day, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Forrest Whittaker, and 50 Cent. Arriving on set last night was another star, Rachel McAdams. I have no designs on a career as an actor, but…
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Love Actually–10th Anniversary
Some good friends came over last night to join us in some delicious imperial stout (Thanks, Jarrod!) and our annual watching of Love Actually, the Christmas movie that most of us love and lots of us love to hate–a fairly successful situation for a movie that, while it uses Christmas as it’s framework is, as…
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A Photo I Like (for no good reason at all, except that I can) #1
I have saved hundreds of photos over the years–thank the sneaky gods for terrabites-wide external hard drives–because there are thousands, actually, even though I do occasionally do some house cleaning. In these dark and busy days–all sorts of meetings this week, NaNoWriMo sucking time hungrily, and I’ve got a cold that manifests itself worst at…
Old Road Apples 