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I turned around and somehow it has been two and a half years since I last posted to this site. In fairness, I suppose that a lot of stuff has been going on in the world in the meantime that might have kept me preoccupied, and even with an intense mastery of mental compartmentalization I m slowly running out of mental real estate to compartmentalize anxieties and such away into. Added to that has…
I have a post on Metafilter to thank for pointing out this far-ranging and fascinating discussion on the role of fictional brands in media with members of the design teams from the Barbie film, the films of Wes Anderson, and Adult Swim, by writer Ayla Angelos for It s Nice That (and the piece also introduced me to the Fictional Brands Archive).
I thought that I had shared a quick reaction to seeing James Mangold s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny somewhere online, either here or on one of the MANY social media sites I ve tried out recently, but it looks like I never actually got around to it? Or maybe I did and I the search functions on those sites aren t so great? Or there s a social media outlet that I ve forgotten about ? In any…
I ve been meaning to share my thoughts on some recent reads and watches, but I keep getting distracted and then time goes on and I still haven t said anything and my site remains dusty and unused for weeks and months on end. So here s a quick list of things that I would have written about here had I had the time, and may end up coming back to sooner or later. Mrs. Davis on Peacock is like a live…
After Hank suddenly disappears, Team Venture is forced to fight their way through conspiracies, mysteries, and plenty of villains to find Hank and restore the world as they once knew it. Own it July 21 on Digital and July 25 on DVD/Blu-Ray. Go Team Venture!
With the current sad state of the bird site, just a quick note here that I m still active on Tumblr as @chrisroberson and on Mastodon (or the Fediverse, if you prefer) as @chrisroberson@mstdn.social. I m going to try to do a better job of posting here on a more regular basis, but I can usually be found at either of those sites.
On April 5, 2063, a Vulcan survey ship lands in Bozeman, Montana after detecting a warp-capable ship launching from there earlier that day. The Vulcans are greeted the ship s designer and pilot, Zefram Cochrane, and the rest is (future) history. I ve always been a hardcore Trekkie, having started watching the original series in reruns as a kid in the Seventies, seeing all of the original cast…
Back in the olden blogging days the annual holiday songs from the good folks behind The Venture Bros was always a treat, and I was delighted last night to see that this year we got a brand new installment. There s also a YouTube playlist of all of the Venture Bros Holiday Songs to date, and all of the songs can be downloaded from Ken Plume s Patreon.
An issue of Hellboy The B.P.R.D. that I worked on, Forgotten Lives with art by Stephen Green, has appeared on Multiversity Comics list of the Best Single Issues of 2022. Here s a bit of what reviewer Ryan Fitzmartin has to say about it: Mignola and Roberson use the story of a ghost in a mass grave in the Bronx as an entry point to explore death and legacy. Hellboy and Trever Bruttenholm are…
I ve written before on many occasions about my longtime obsession with Indiana Jones. I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theater the summer I turned 11 years old, and was there for each of the three sequels on the opening weekend. A trip to Disney World a few years ago got me on a serious Indiana Jones kick and in the span of a few months I rewatched all of the movies, all of the Young…
Hello, anyone who might happen to chance by here. I ve maintained this site for a LONG time but I ve only updated sporadically the last couple of years, usually posting about movies or TV shows that I ve really enjoyed. My day-to-day online posting has mostly been on various social media sites, where I variously talk about politics or post pictures of my cats or share random nostalgia or post…
I think that Chris Chibnall s run as showrunner on Doctor Who has had its ups and downs, but overall I ve really enjoyed Jodie Whittaker s stint as the 13th Doctor. (I ve particularly liked the way that Chibnall and the writers frequently used real historical figures who many viewers might not have previously been familiar with, such as Noor Inayat Khan, Ada Lovelace, and Mary Seacole.) And while…
I finally had a chance to watch The French Dispatch over the weekend (or to be more precise, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, to use the full title), and of all of the Wes Anderson movies that Wes Anderson has ever Wes Andersoned, that was the most Wes Andersony. And I absolutely loved it. Anderson has been responsible for several of my all time favorite movies, and while…
I feel like an apostate who has just experienced a religious revival, like my faith had lapsed for years and years and was suddenly reignited. I have read and reread Frank Herbert s Dune many times over the years (though I haven t revisited any of the sequels in quite some time), most recently about a decade ago. I was in the theater on opening day for David Lynch s adaptation in 1984, and still…
I ve been reorganizing books shelves and back issues boxes the last few weekends, restocking the spinner rack in my office with my favorite comics from middle school, and I keep thinking about the truism that I ve come across many times over the years: The golden age of comics is twelve. Because, for me at least, it really seems to hold true. The comics that I first read between the summer of 1982…