January 2005
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Ender's Game & Shadow
I finally read Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, and really enjoyed them. I did find the writing to be much better than Shadow Of The Hedgemon and was especially disappointed to learn just how much of Hedgemon was simply rehashing Ender’s Shadow. This only reinforced my belief that reading series out of order just shouldn’t be done. Though to be honest, I definitely...
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Blame Placing
Regarding Electra’s weak opening numbers… “Bruce Snyder, Fox’s domestic distribution exec… speculated that superwomen just don’t seem to draw as well as supermen.” My guess would be that bad movies don’t draw as well as decent movies. I’m now determined to write a movie about a female superhero that is better than Catwoman or Supergirl. ...
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Shadow Of The Hedgemon
So I was in the Dollar Tree at the mall the other day because I needed an emergency hard writing surface and what did I stumble across but the sequel to the parallel novel to the book I’ve been meaning to read for quite a while. I’m loathe to read or watch pretty much anything out of order but hey, it was a dollar. I really liked Shadow Of The Hedgemon and I’m not sure why. The...
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Collecting Creativity
I’ve been a collector of dolls (among other things) for a while, and I’ve noticed an interesting trend in collecting the past few years. For a long time, collecting fashion dolls meant buying very expensive Barbies in pristine boxes and putting them into storage to gain value. But more and more dolls have been released that are meant to be deboxed, even played with. The popularity of...
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TV On DVD
I feel like at this point I should stop being surprised when _______ TV series appears on DVD. I guess there are some shows that I never imagined there was a big enough market for to justify releasing full season box sets. I’ve found that while I love having full runs of all of Joss Whedon shows on hand, TV on DVD takes the fun out of catching reruns in syndication. It used to be cool to...