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Super Big Kickstarter Roundup (April 18th, 2012)
The following are projects I would love to pledge to for rewards and to see the projects happen. In some cases the projects are at 100% and that just means I wish I had hundreds of thousands of dollars just … Continue reading
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Tagged ace kilroy, adventure games, bill corbett, books, cartoons, comic books, Comics, jane jensen, kickstarter, paul jenkins, TV and Movies, video games, web comics
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Some Kickstarter Projects You Can Join In that Caught My Eye
I started working on this last night and just wanted to finish it off because right now I’m just not feeling it. It’s a good distraction from the whole world, but it is still about money and stuff… and more … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Comics, games, kickstarter, murs, Music, pledges, sculptures, toys
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Nerd Notes for 02/01/2012
Over at my Livejournal I used to take various links I found and collate them all into a collection that I called “Nerd Notes”. These links could contain anything from videogames to wrestling to movie trailers to news articles. I … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure games, ags, all-american rejects, books, da new guys, nerd notes, paul mccartney, point and click, sumo cyco, the future, wadjeteye games
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Favorite Movies of 2011
Rango: Gore Verbinkski’s animated western affair was a total delight to the eyes. Accompanied by an amazing soundtrack and perfectly well done jokes, I loved every moment of it. I was sorely disappointed when the blu-ray came out without the … Continue reading
Posted in TV and Movies
Tagged 2011, beginners, best of, books, captain america, Comics, drugs, favorites, hanna, hugo, marvel, overview, reviews, sex, sherlock holmes, TV and Movies, violence, year end
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Overview of Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
The Brooklyn Book Festival which just completed its sixth year was quite intense. Full of free panels with many scheduled at the same time and all taking place while there’s an actual book festival within Columbus Park it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, brooklyn book festival, church, events, recipeproject, stainglass
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BBF2011: Funny Ha-Ha-Comedy in Comics
This panel featured four very talented comics creator with various pedigrees and creators of very different types of comics all that would fall under humor in the format of sequential storytelling. Keith Knight, a syndicated strip cartoonist he is famous … Continue reading
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Tagged (th)INK, act-i-vate, books, brooklyn book festival, comedy, Comics, hark a vagrant, heidi mcdonald, jennifer hayden, kate beaton, keith knight, knight life, michael kupperman, the beat, the k chronicles, underwire
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BBF2011: Eoin Colfer x Walter Mosley – GUMSHOES
We start with a reading of work. First Walter Mosley reads from his forthcoming January 2012 “All I Did Was Shoot My Man”, the next Leonid Mcgill book. It was a spirited reading of chapter 1 and definitely whetted the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, brooklyn book festival, eoin colfer, panel, speakers, walter mosley
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Authors I Enjoy, and if there was more than one of me
I thought I’d take a better look at the schedule for Brooklyn Book Festival 2011 taking place Sunday, May 18th at Columbus Park in Brooklyn, New York. I will be focusing on the non comics selections this time. So please … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, books, brooklyn book festival, journalism, moderators, novels, panels, schedule, talk, writers
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Trying to predict NYCC and reflecting
At last year’s Comic-Con Stan Lee made tons of announcements. The beginning pre-promotion for one of 2011’s best films HANNA began (which just came out on Blu-Ray). SEGA had very pre-release previews of their video game counterparts to CAPTAIN AMERICA … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Comics, new york comic con, TV and Movies
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The Continuing Insurgence of Sequential Storytelling As Accepted Media
I am currently considering attending the Brooklyn Book Festival as media and barring that just another consumer. As I look over the schedule of readings and panels I am excited and mesmerized by the amount of “comics” artists … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, books, brooklyn book festival, Comics, events, graphic novels, novels, panels, poetry, poets, TV and Movies
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