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The Demon Hunter's Top Movie Picks

1. Star Wars (Episodes 4-6) These movies are still my all-time favorite movies. The first book I read was Empire Strikes Back and I still have it. 2.The Matrix Trilogy These films in my opinion are the perfect example of what speculative fiction should do. These movies present lets the audience ponder complex questions while giving the viewer a great visual experience. 3. The Terminator Its just so damn fun! The book still makes a great read. 4. The Abyss This is the first movie to make me cr… Continue

Added by John The Rogue Demon Hunter on June 21, 2009 at 10:45pm — 2 Comments

A Gradual Return

First, the Bad News: My laptop is still down, off somewhere on the West Coast, getting fixed (presumably) by the Tech Squad that services my extended warranty on this increasingly unreliable conglomeration of circuitry. And the warranty expires come December. At that point it won’t be cost-effective to subsidize some uber-geek’s sailboat or second vacation home so I’m about to slap a DNR on another machine with an average life-span of 3 to 4 years. (3 to 4 years minus the better part of an accu… Continue

Added by Wm. Mark Simmons on May 30, 2009 at 5:17pm — 1 Comment

What Goes Around, Comes Around...

Finally got to see ALL of the Battlestar Galactica finale. My DVR cut off before the final 9 minutes of the overlong Daybreak Part Two unwound. Thank the Lords of Cobol for Hulu.com. So, now I’m left with a disturbing theory (beyond the idea that there’s a race of Centurions, somewhere out there, that have had another 150,000 years to evolve…). It goes something like this: The reimagined Battlestar Galactica with James Edward Olmos as Adama unwinds 150,000 years in the past. At the series end… Continue

Added by Wm. Mark Simmons on March 28, 2009 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

Aggrivation

So lately I've been feeling more and more burned out(is it burned or burnt?) like i just can't get into anything. No drive, no inspiration. I don't know I just spend all day at work doing a job that requires little to no thought with little to no decent conversation. And usually I relax with something interesting or thought provoking, but lately I just can't bring myself to start anything. No energy. I guess I'm just stuck in the monotony that is life, maybe I'll find something interesting soon. Continue

Added by Bob The Elementalist on March 27, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Anime Plots

Ok. The other day I sat down and watched the original Aeon Flux and all though it is a very good series, it has no plot. I find this very odd, it's not like I'm missing it, it's just not there. What throws me off even more is the fact that Aeon dies in the pilot and most of the shorts, Does anyone have any views on why this is? This isn't the only anime like this, there are a few. Continue

Added by Bob The Elementalist on March 17, 2009 at 11:21am — 2 Comments

Beautiful Steampunk Art and Video

Courtesy of Natania Barron, authoress of the the book and blog The Aldersgate Cycle, I discovered the winning entries to a steampunk art and video contest held by the CGSociety, entitled Steampunk Myths & Legends It is truly full of some beautiful stuff, steampunk or ot… Continue

Added by Bill Bittner on February 28, 2009 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Battlestar Galactica

Yeah baby I can't wait for this coming friday's opener. To bad it going to be the last 10 eps. On another note, the 2nd time around I viewed the Firefly s eries I fell in love with the show. To bad on the low ratings and lack of insight from Fox. I hope Dollhouse is s hit. I hope the new Star Trek movie is riddled with flawed characters like in BSG. It makes them human and more believable. Thank god they got rid of the producers from the series; their direction of the series was too squeaky c… Continue

Added by John Carrasquillo on January 14, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

New Book by Author Deno Sandz: Captures the FEARS and IMAGINATION of fiction readers worldwide

"In Northville Prison...there’s a GHOST IN MY CELL" "PEN OF INIQUITY" BY DENO SANDZ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2009 Deno Sandz of Chicago, Illinois is pleased to announce the official release date in bookstores of his 3rd Supernatural/Horror novel titled… Continue

Added by Deno Sandz(Horror Novelist) on January 14, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

A Precognitive Dream... Or Is It

I had the weirdest dream a couple of days ago. There I was hanging out with a group of people some were friends others acquaintances. I knew each of them although none of them looked like anybody I know in real life. There was one other girl there who I did not know. We were chatting about life, politics, religion, games, movies and then the girl revealed who she was. She said that her name was Kristen Stewart and she was walking from town to town hanging out with everyday people doing grass-roo… Continue

Added by homerswisdom on November 21, 2008 at 1:54am — 6 Comments

Comic Recommendation: Proof

I've just started reading the Image comic "Proof," and I'm really enjoying it. It's kind of lik… Continue

Added by Bill Bittner on November 19, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

What if prop 8 was a ban on opposite sex marriage?

This is a great special comment by Keith Olbermann on gay marriage. via Huffington Post

He puts the argument forward in such a simple way: if you are a Christian than you follow the golden rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Therefore as a Christian do you want the government to tell you that you can only marry people of the same sex. As a Christian do you want the g

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Added by homerswisdom on November 12, 2008 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Guess that drink: Zack and Miri

Sometimes I love to see what people are drinking in movies and shows. It’s like a little game for me. I realize that quite often they are there as product placement but when it’s not blazingly obvious what the drink is I… Continue

Added by homerswisdom on November 4, 2008 at 12:35am — No Comments

The Return

First of all, my apologies to all for going silent for so long. I was fighting a battle on two fronts. First of all, my laptop went down some months ago and I had to go through the process of getting an older laptop repaired and refurbished while I hunted down the extended warranty pertaining to the current one. It took some time to restore some of the data from my hard drive—being a poor author I had to do all of the dirty work, myself. Once restored, the old laptop gimped along requiring a c… Continue

Added by Wm. Mark Simmons on September 14, 2008 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

How not to flirt online

This is from an old article, Foolproof Online Dating Tips for Desperate Guys, but I dug it up recently and it still makes me laugh. It's by Lore Sjöberg, a columnist for Wired. Here's a sample: You know what's great? Chivalry. Chivalry is great. A long time ago a bunch of guys with horses and swords made up a bunch of rules about how to treat women. If you follow these rules with a woman you like, t… Continue

Added by Bill Bittner on September 4, 2008 at 3:01pm — 2 Comments