ProFantasy Cartographer’s Annual: December
I still haven’t taught myself to use Campaign Cartographer 3, but I really enjoy ProFantasy’s monthly special maps. Check out the December Annual issue for 1930s travel guide-style maps.
View ArticleThe true meaning of Christmas
If I had to pick one Christmas special that sums up what I consider the “true meaning of Christmas”, it would be Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “Welcome, Christmas, bring your cheer. Cheer...
View ArticleAlien Trespass
Just watched “Alien Trespass“. I almost didn’t, because the cover art and the title made me think it was probably yet another of those execrable Asylum ripoffs. (If that makes you think the Asylum...
View ArticleSympathy for the devil
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18, King James Bible “Authorized Version”, Cambridge Edition) I feel sorry for Ken Ham, because it seems to me, from...
View ArticleCampaign Cartographer Tutorials by Joe Sweeney
I purchased Campaign Cartographer years ago, and have purchased many of the Annuals and add-ons from ProFantasy, yet I have never made the time to actually learn to use the program. I intend to change...
View ArticlePaper Moon and True Grit
Today’s film festival featured two classic films featuring young, strong, female protagonists: Paper Moon and True Grit. In both of these films, the young female protagonist stares down male...
View ArticleGravity
I just watched Gravity with Susan Blackmoor. I had low expectations. After all, I have seen this movie before, when it was called Marooned and starred Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman. George Clooney is...
View ArticleBad Vampire Movie Night
Tonight has been Bad Vampire Movie night. We started with Dario Argento’s Dracula (2012), starring Rutger Hauer, who apparently got lost on the way to the movie and only showed up about a half-hour...
View ArticleFatherland/Split Second
The third Friday of August is Cult Movie Night at Castle Blackmoor. This month, we celebrate the career of Rutger Hauer with two of his most difficult-to-find films. First, we will view Fatherland...
View ArticleThe Host (2013)
We just finished watching The Host (2013). I liked this movie much more than I expected. What if the Puppet Masters’ invasion had been successful, and years later, one of them had second thoughts about...
View ArticleWhere are all the female superheroes?
A friend who has daughters shared with me this article about a guy who bought a Justice League board game to play with his daughter, only to find out there that there wasn’t a single female superhero...
View ArticleClue (1985)
Colonel Mustard: “Just checking.” Mrs. Peacock: “Everything all right?” Colonel Mustard: “Yep. Two corpses: everything’s fine.” I love “Clue” (the movie). This and “Dark and Stormy Night” are my...
View ArticleWhat is “gamergate”?
Generally speaking, I avoid posting anything controversial here on my blog; despite the title, I prefer to focus on the positive. However, I have decided to make an exception, regarding the hate...
View ArticleLifeforce (1985)
Tonight’s film fun was Lifeforce, starring Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, and a host of others. This is one of my all-time favourite movies, and unlike some movies from the 1980s, this is...
View ArticleDr. Phibes’ Abominable Christmas Special
How many of you remember with fondness the 1973 “Dr. Phibes’ Abominable Christmas Special”? “Twelve signs of the zodiac. Twelve apostles. Twelve times, twelve! The human body has twelve cranial nerves,...
View ArticleA handful of figures
I do not paint miniatures anymore. It takes me a very long time, and I simply have too many projects as it is. Still, by the time I stopped, I think I had gotten pretty good at it. Below are the...
View ArticleDo not stretch 4:3 images to fit 16:9 screens
I was at a restaurant once, and the widescreen TVs were set to non-widescreen stations, with the image squashed vertically (or stretched horizontally, potayto potahto) to fit. That was bad enough. But...
View ArticleLucy (2014)
Just watched Lucy with Susan and Vixen. Vixen and I LOVED it. What the Matrix is to computer science, Lucy is to biology. No, it does not make sense, and in fact it’s absurd on several levels, but it...
View ArticleWe do not see things as they are
When confronted with the “antis” — anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-gun, anti-women, anti-science, anti-sex, etc. — who seem so devoted to their agendas of hatred, ignorance, and irrational fear, I am...
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