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Useless Fact
Sep. 8th, 2016 03:35 pmMy 1993-dated copy of the Stuttman Military Yearbook is volume 1 of 6.
Live Long And Prosper
May. 21st, 2016 12:20 amTime for an audience participation topic: Paramount has abandoned their lawsuit against the party behind the AXANAR project.
In the wake of this, would you want to make a fan movie? If so, what franchise?
Loose Note
Mar. 13th, 2016 03:40 pmGetTV was showing the 1960s Jason And The Argonauts just now. It's weird that when I saw it in theater when I was a kid that I was so awed by the effects. I still see the genius in it, even though now it's painfully obvious how it was done.
Useless Fact
Jan. 4th, 2016 04:04 pmThe current value of a CentiBatman is 1,100 copies per month--down 200 copies from this time last year.
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Finally saw the movie Rollover after almost thirty-five years of wanting to; it was on Escape Network overnight. And it has officially become a part of the Hackett Continuum.
I'm sure you won't mind me spoiling it: at a World Trade Center investment bank, an heiress and her banker partner are eyewitnesses (and unwilling catalysts) to a diabolical scheme by a faction of the Saudi government, who (with help from inside men) engineer a massive panic on Wall Street, causing an existing recession to snowball into an all-out Great Depression.
So, this would go a long way to explaining the Hackett world--global economies often determine cycles of war and peace. Wealth breeds corruption; poverty breeds brutality.
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Useless Fact
Dec. 15th, 2015 02:54 pmHershy Kay's music to the ballet The Clowns has never, it appears, been recorded for any sort of album release.
FreeWill: Disney and Distillation
Sep. 29th, 2015 02:58 pmSagittarius Horoscope for week of October 1, 2015
Your fellow Sagittarian Walt Disney accomplished a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animation and made movies that won numerous Academy Awards. He built theme parks, created an entertainment empire, and amassed fantastic wealth. Why was he so successful? In part because he had high standards, worked hard, and harbored an obsessive devotion to his quirky vision. If you aspire to cultivate any of those qualities, now is a favorable time to raise your mastery to the next level. Disney had one other trait you might consider working on: He liked to play the game of life by his own rules. For example, his favorite breakfast was doughnuts dipped in Scotch whisky. What would be your equivalent?
Some would say I'm living by my own rules now...but just haven't gotten to that thing that will make it PROFIT.
A couple weeks ago at the Knoxville IPMS meeting, a fellow member was clearing out his closet of old periodicals and some of us got to divvying the pieces among them. When I saw that he had old issues of War Monthly and True War among them, I shamelessly scooped up as much of those as I could.
Both those magazines were influences on me, and perhaps more than I'd care to admit.
War Monthly was the product of the Marshall Cavendish publishing powerhouse, and (I felt) a good value for the combination of artwork, writing and layout work. The articles would get repurposed into volumes, and from there sometimes into whole coffee table books.
True War, on the other hand, was the product of the notorious low-budget tabloid schlockmeister and pornographer Myron Fass at Countrywide Publications. The only color content was on the cover, and the interior was made up mainly of archival or press-release photos and cut-to-the-bone prose. True to form, their presentation on the Battle of Arnhem (for an example) was slimmer in both page count and journalist prowess as the photo spread of Cornelius Ryan's book A BRIDGE TOO FAR! I got a replacement copy of an issue of True War I thought I lost in 1978 and now that I think about it, I think one of my parents could have thrown mine out in disgust.
To make a long story short, I couldn't afford as a kid to subscribe to War Monthly, and even if the option were available my folks probably wouldn't have condoned me subscribing to True War. My main go-to publisher of magazines from then was Challenge Publications (Air Classics, Air Combat, Air Progress, Military Modeler, etc.).
But I'm glad to get back these. And then I found a bunch of online sources for .pdf versions of War Monthly, so one way or another I have all the content from the get-go through to Issue 49. The series lasted much longer than that, but the later ones are very hard to find because they were subscription-only and most went to library collections.
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Useless Fact
Oct. 15th, 2014 04:00 pm(I found out a fact this week I should have known decades ago.) The Feggans Brown company, which built aircraft mockups for movies and TV series, also built scores of Daleks for various Doctor Who productions.
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Don't mind the above thingy. I'm just doing that to enter a sweepstakes.
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Randomnity, Again
Mar. 6th, 2014 11:00 pm*) Tried to sell my old wireless modems at a second-hand mobile phone store overday, and the store refused to buy them. I wonder if I should just consign them to a friend who has an eBay store.
*) Zvezda in Russia promises that there will be new kits in their Art of Tactic series that will be scale compatible with Wings of Glory WW2...and I'm particularly interested in the Bristol Blenheim bombers. Well, with the politics between Stateside and Moscow being what they are, I shouldn't expect to get these very quickly.
*) REIGN on CW is a mess. It's supposed to be historical but their visual RNA for scenery, props, costuming and casting is jarringly off-the-mark. Or, at least, I THINK it's supposed to be historical.
*) Zvezda in Russia promises that there will be new kits in their Art of Tactic series that will be scale compatible with Wings of Glory WW2...and I'm particularly interested in the Bristol Blenheim bombers. Well, with the politics between Stateside and Moscow being what they are, I shouldn't expect to get these very quickly.
*) REIGN on CW is a mess. It's supposed to be historical but their visual RNA for scenery, props, costuming and casting is jarringly off-the-mark. Or, at least, I THINK it's supposed to be historical.
Reel And Unreal...FreeWill Weighs In
Aug. 27th, 2013 03:53 pmSagittarius Horoscope for week of August 29, 2013
James Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far, and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kramer vs. Kramer, Blade Runner, and Apocalypse Now. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don't sell yourself short. Don't shrink from the challenges that present themselves. Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an invitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing.
As little as I have accomplished, I don't think I'm exactly swimming in choices or opportunities.
James Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far, and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kramer vs. Kramer, Blade Runner, and Apocalypse Now. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don't sell yourself short. Don't shrink from the challenges that present themselves. Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an invitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing.
As little as I have accomplished, I don't think I'm exactly swimming in choices or opportunities.
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My Life As A TV Fan Part V
Aug. 16th, 2013 10:00 pmI'm not so sure that I can say I "matured" as a viewer a lot in the early 1980s...though I was by that time giving up a lot of the sitcoms and action shows that I liked in the Seventies.
1980-81 Season
* Favorites: Private Benjamin, M*A*S*H, House Calls, That's Incredible, Real People, Games People Play, Magnum P.I., WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy
(The only show that DIDN'T continue from this season to the next was Games People Play...and that was mainly because it was just an offshoot of NBC Sports' omnibus show Sportsworld. So as not to duplicate my efforts unnecessarily...)
1981-82 Season
* Added To Favorites: Simon & Simon, Best of the West, The Fall Guy, Bosom Buddies
1980-81 Season
* Favorites: Private Benjamin, M*A*S*H, House Calls, That's Incredible, Real People, Games People Play, Magnum P.I., WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy
(The only show that DIDN'T continue from this season to the next was Games People Play...and that was mainly because it was just an offshoot of NBC Sports' omnibus show Sportsworld. So as not to duplicate my efforts unnecessarily...)
1981-82 Season
* Added To Favorites: Simon & Simon, Best of the West, The Fall Guy, Bosom Buddies
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Car. Again. Go Figure
Aug. 16th, 2013 06:06 pm
The website that has this "game" is too slow and buggy to let me get back to my own entry.
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My Life As A TV Fan Part IV
Jul. 17th, 2013 01:01 pmIn the summer of 1979, we moved again from Pittsburgh to the Tampa Bay area. The second TV was placed in a "Florida room" of the house, that was originally designed as a garage but never actually built as such. After some months of sharing a bedroom with my brother I somehow persuaded my parents into replacing the old sofa in the Florida room with a Castro Convertable bed and took the room over as my own bedroom. As a result, I was watching a lot more TV...even though I was just as scrupulous about curfew times as I was in previous years. Except in summer of course, when I began watching a lot of late late shows--and network reruns of prime-time shows in latenight slots.
1978-'79 Season
*Favorites At-The-Time: Hardy Boys, Battlestar Galactica, Operation Petticoat, Project UFO, Taxi, The Dukes of Hazzard, Sword of Justice, Mork & Mindy
*Eventual Favorites: M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati
1979-'80 Season
*Favorites At-The-Time: Mork & Mindy, The Associates, 240-Robert, That's Incredible, M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati, Real People, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 20/20
1978-'79 Season
*Favorites At-The-Time: Hardy Boys, Battlestar Galactica, Operation Petticoat, Project UFO, Taxi, The Dukes of Hazzard, Sword of Justice, Mork & Mindy
*Eventual Favorites: M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati
1979-'80 Season
*Favorites At-The-Time: Mork & Mindy, The Associates, 240-Robert, That's Incredible, M*A*S*H, WKRP in Cincinnati, Real People, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 20/20
