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Draft complete; Jordan emerges from bathysphere
On Monday, we turned in the second draft of our young-adult supernatural thriller 7 Souls (“we” meaning myself and my writing partner Barney). I say “young-adult” because that’s the market, the...
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Horrorthon “virginity optimization” project (needs a new name)
Obviously I need to come up with a new name; suggestions are welcome. Anyway here’s the idea: I’m really into the movie The Shining (see above picture in which I am literally “really into” the movie)....
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Star Trek IMAX tickets!
I’ve got two tickets for Star Trek The IMAX Experience, in Manhattan, at the Upper West Side IMAX, 7:45 on May 12th. I’ve got to unload these tickets. Can any New York-based ‘thonners help me out? If...
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Don Martin Dept.
The drawing above is the very first panel of the very first Mad magazine strip cartoon by Don Martin (1931-2000), “Mad‘s Maddest Artist.” For those of you who are familiar with Mad and with Martin,...
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Zack On My Back
Zack On My Back is a children’s rhyme that my friend David composed for his godson Zack a few years ago and asked me to illustrate. (This was way before octopunk and julie had their own Zack.) Now that...
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Star Trek visuals/design geek discussion
Another spoiler-filled bunch of comments on the new Star Trek movie — this time, focusing exclusively on questions of visual design. Not surprisingly, it turns out that I have a lot to say about the...
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Star Trek SPOILER thread — is BACK
I’ve seen the movie and want to talk about it with other h’thonners who’ve seen it. SPOILER WARNING! Don’t even think of clicking on this unless you want to read major plot points immediately given...
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Boris Artzybasheff’s WWII art
Danish political cartoonist Boris Artzybasheff was heavily influenced by the then-contemporary surrealist movement (from what I see, I’m guessing Di Chirico and Dali). In his collection As I See,...
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Nobody likes my posts!
My remarks about the awesome-looking new disaster movie 2012 just below are the latest in a series of Jordan posts that nobody seems to care about (except octopunk, who’s kind enough to spare me a...
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George Pal vs. Roland Emmerich
George Pal was a fair-to-middling producer/director of high-concept sci-fi spectacle movies in the 1950s (like “Destination Moon” and the original “The War of the Worlds”). In other words, he was the...
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Take a ride
Trolling through the wilderness of bittorrent, what did I happen upon but an 11.58 GB archive containing 168 issues of Heavy Metal magazine, beginning with its debut in September 1977 and extending...
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Watchmen Extended Director’s Cut
It’s 25 minutes longer, 186 minutes total. It was supposed to be released in theaters in July; I don’t know anything about that (and I think we all probably missed it). The DVD and the Blu-Ray come out...
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Some random video goodness
1) What if Ghostbusters had been made in 1954? here’s one man’s answer to that burning question: 2) The first official trailer to the Coen Brothers’ new movie A Serious Man is here. I think it looks...
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District 9
(2009) **** This really was astoundingly good. But I’m not going to say anything here, because you guys probably haven’t seen it yet (except for JPX). Follow me to the comments page for more...
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Avatar vs. Delgo
This is great! Apparently there was this animated feature called “Delgo,” which I didn’t see, but which everyone’s sardonically referring to in reference to the Avatar trailer. Anyway, somebody did a...
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The J-27
I know there are other music geeks out there in Horrorthon-land…actually, aren’t we all music geeks (in addition to everything else)? Anyway, as I continue my obsessive study of the technical...
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I’ve got this whole “Avatar” thing all figured out
Okay, go with me for a minute here. I suddenly realized what this whole damn Avatar thing is all about. For more than ten years, James Cameron made movies like this:Right? You can almost hear the...
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