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How about another figure from Trick or Treat Studios' Day of the Dead toyline? Since we've already covered a zombie (Bub), let's now take a look at one of the humans from the film: Capt. Henry Rhodes. While the zombies are certainly a problem in the film, Capt. Rhodes is the primary antagonist for our heroes as he's heavily armed, commands a group of soldiers, and is steadily losing his grip on reality. Inspired by the classic Kenner figures of the late 1980s and 1990s like Beetlejuice, The…

I've mentioned to a few people that one of the reasons I am propelling myself so fully into my new project because why not. Because fuck it. I've mentioned to a few other people that by way of the new project I can kind of, sort of correct something from long ago. A misstep. A missed exit. When you miss the exit you don't slamm on the brakes and try to get back to it. You can't. It too dangerous. You just have to keep going, get off at the next opportunity, and work your way back. That's what…

we took down the shade in the arch window and within fifteen minutes she’d found the new sun patch Win of the week: my Wonders of Web Weaving podcast episode came out! I think the audio version is the best experience, but I have also posted an annotated transcript here if you are like me and would rather read 😉 Looking forward to: found a metal sculpture class I want to take for my birthday! Stuff I did: 7 hours book outline 1.5 hours business admin baked ginger pecan cream scones did an hour…

1926 saw the launch of the first liquid fuel rocket, labor unrest in Great Britain, and the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh. And the publication of 12 issues of your favorite magazine, Weird Tales! Like the spider in that Scottish story, we here at MPorcius Fiction Log are not abandoning the apparently impossible task of reading at least one story from each issue of the Unique Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual. And today we can make a verifiable claim of progress--we have now read a story from…

So I’m moving my Lorecore symbol registry out of Muse and into Codex, which seems more competent for this kind of data approval and management pipeline work. The failures I kept seeing out of Muse related to its inability to seemingly sort out symbol unit relationships and identities with one another in such a way that it could quickly and without repetition give me items for review in an efficient manner. Codex was able to ingest a handoff from Muse, and seems to be swimming through it, though…

The Thanksgiving weekend in Canada has arrived and as the rest of the country makes their way to fall fairs to marvel over the size of giant vegetables and take in a demolition derby I will be setting my table. Again. And Again. The Good China I use flow blue for Thanksgiving dinner because I...Read More

After that horrible, depressing start to the day, my partner convinced me to go ahead and go to the draft night I was so excited for. I'm happy I went, it was a good time, and it was nice to not think of anything but the good company and the fun games. There were originally only two of us that showed up, and we weren't sure what to do, but then my coworker who I'd invited thursday showed up, and one of the shop owners joined us, so we had 4 people, enough for a pick 2 draft! I first picked a…

Meeting up with old friends.

An end of week recap “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” – Salman Rushdie I will be scooting off to Liverpool again towards the end of next week and probably won’t return until late on Saturday, which means my wind up may not arrive until Sunday 18th October – and in what form it will appear, I’m not yet entirely sure. We have an actual literary event to get our biblioteeth into today, for it is Bookshop Day in all manner of countries around the…

The wife and I went to antiques stores in the Altoona-Tyrone region of the Keystone State and today I will share images of some of the wild and crazy stuff I saw that I was too cheap to buy, artifacts of the past that I think may be of interest to fans of genre literature, old magazines, comics, and collectible paperbacks. We'll start with the tame stuff and work our way to the most exploitative, salacious and perverted items.Click on the images for larger versions.Here's something wholesome…

New York Comic-Con is in full swing. Various comics, movies, and shows have been announced. When it is done, I'll probably highlight the news I (personally) find most interesting. One thing that often happens at these major conventions is exclusive comics, variants, and so forth. A unique or rare variant can go for big bucks on the aftermarket. That said, one thing has me befuddled for getting, "Hot." At Marvel's Midnight Universe Panel--held to discuss the new alternate continuity that just…

Scene from SoHo – New York, New York We’ve only moved a couple of blocks west of Little Italy, but there is another noticeable shift in the neighborhood. Gone is the ethnic Italian vibe, but more significantly, the architecture has also changed. In Chinatown and Little Italy, the buildings were predominantly residential with retail at the street level. They were mainly row houses and tenements with fire escapes clearly visible on the front facades. Looking at the background architecture, you…

I’ve had the same phone for the past five years, an iPhone 13 Pro which I bought for two reasons: My previous phone’s (iPhone 12 Mini) battery was worn out and had become worn out super quickly I wanted the LiDAR sensor for the work I was doing at the time Anyway, it still does everything I need in a phone (which isn’t all that much), but over the last several months the battery wasn’t lasting a full day on the rare days when I went out, which is of course when I most need the battery to…

An undated photo mislabeled as “War Art” on eBay, but which was, in fact, a photo of the JFK memorial wreath sculpted by Louis Féron, acquired by Oak Spring Garden Foundation, via Ploughshares An absolutely fascinating story about a lost JFK memorial sculpture unfolded in 2022-24 at the otherwise serene enclave of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the former estate of Bunny Mellon. It seems to have unfolded twice, or at least to be recounted twice. So far. And I am enthralled by both accounts,…

Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book:Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E. О ЦЁМ РАССКАЗАЛ ТЕЛЕСКОП (What the Telescope Told.) Leningrad: L. Detgiz. (66 p.) 1972. Exploring MercuryExploring VenusExploring MarsExploring JupiterExploring SaturnExploring ???

Two of my students practicing, 2021. Kodak Gold 200 film. During COVID, things got weird. A FedEx driver brought a check to my door, unmasked. Making conversation, I asked if they didn't make him wear one. "No reason to wear a mask for somethin' no worse than the flu." I let it go. What I wanted to say: the flu still kills tens of thousands of Americans a year, even with easy vaccination. Before we had a vaccine, it killed half a million of us. We're so cushioned by decades of medicine and…

Hasbro is one of the largest toy and game manufacturers in the world today, but when they first started (back when they were labeled the Hassenfeld Brothers) they were primarily known as a toy maker and barely dabbled in the gaming industry. The few games that they did release met with little success. However - just like today - the Hassenfeld Brothers knew that any game would sell if it had a popular Movie/TV theme linked with it. So what would be popular with children in the early 1960s?…

I caught the great Bill Orcutt last night, opening for Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 at the Great American Music Hall here in San Francisco, and he was incredible. There is, as I discussed with my friend I attended with, something at once chaotic and dependable about what Orcutt does solo, and something interesting in the tension between those two aspects — how piece after piece, he breaks things down while still pushing forward. There’s an incredible pleasure not just to the whole that is…

Here's another FDM print of my 1:144 scale Fokker Dr1 triplane.This one has been painted all red, as the Red Baron, Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen.I believe there's some doubt these days about whether or not his triplane was ever actually painted overall red, but that doesn't really matter to me: this is the mythical Baron, not the real one.

I went to the Bill Dellinger Cross Country Meet today – the 20th year of this one. I’ve been the past two years as well as it is held on a golf course in Springfield, the next town over. Side note: Springfield, Oregon is *that* Springfield from the The Simpsons, according to the creator, Matt Groening. I took some photos today and these are a few of my favorites: The Chico State Women doing a motivational dance before they ran their 6k race. Connor Thompson, brother of former UO runner Anika…

The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman Twenty years have passed since we left La Belle Sauvage, and the world is changing as the Magisterium exerts more control, the agents of The Authority becoming more authoritarian. After discovering a murdered botanist and a rucksack containing an intriguing notebook, book of addresses and seeds, and Lyra and Pan’s relationship falls apart, Lyra, Pantalaimon and Malcolm each journey east through Central Europe and into Asia in search of different things –…

One of the most common fallacies that I see parents repeating is the notion that people who are successful are confident, and therefore they need to build confidence in their kids and protect their egos. The truth could not be further from that. Somebody who has genuine confidence is somebody whose ego has been crushed repeatedly for years. Because when their egos get crushed, they become more humble, and they learn to work harder. And when they are humble and work hard for many years, they…

Back in March, I said I bought a WonderSwan Color. I barely turned it on because (a) its games are only in Japanese, since it was released only in Japan; (b) the only game I had was Final Fantasy II (in Japanese); and © I could barely see the screen. Maybe younger people don't know about this, but old handhelds didn't have any backlighting, so you had to play it under a strong source of light to see anything, and it was not great. Here's a picture of my WonderSwan running Final Fantasy II. It…

Another part of the Conann expanded universe, this one entirely in split-screen. Funny to watch this experimental remake of his previous film right after Funny Games US. The first half is a ballet adaptation containing music videos and animated bits. After Puppet Petrouchka becomes a ghost, each character gets a solo dance and debrief. The butt-faces remind me of Tsukamoto, but the film is dedicated to Terayama Shuji: Part two, The Deviant Comedy, is a victory lap through the Conann story with…

★★★★☆ I checked out Open Camera again after however many years because /e/OS uses it as the base for its camera app. Most of this review applies to both versions. It’s actually pretty good! (Much better than Fossify Camera.) Automatic settings are fine most of the time, and you can manually set focus, exposure, etc. It can shift seamlessly between lenses on devices that support it (like the Pixel 5), and you can switch manually on devices that don’t (like the Fairphone 4). One nice thing I…

Yesterday, I got an email from Jesse Lebron of Storible letting me know that over a third of all data centres and projected new hyperscale sites are "in high or extremely high water-stress areas." Arizona alone has 57 data centres in extremely water-stressed areas. If you're a regular reader of mine, you know that I've written extensively about the ongoing harms of generative AI. And I've been talking to quite a few people who also share a negative personal view of genAI, but have told me that…

by Cláudio Alves Here at The Film Experience, we love to celebrate centennials, and yesterday marked a big one. On October 8th, 1926, William Greaves was born in Harlem, and would go on to become one of the most important figures in 20th-century American non-fiction filmmaking. More specifically, his legacy rests on documenting African-American life, spanning from avant-garde exercises like the Symbiopsychotaxiplasm duology to more conventional fare like his Ida B. Wells profile for the…

Viltrox AF 50mm Air F2 LAnother great lightweight and affordable 50mm lens for mirrorless cameras. This review is for the L-mount version, but it's also available for Sony and Nikon mirrorless as well.