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Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:05:51 +0000

View the free digital edition of Black Opus Vol. 1 online.

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Game Review: Roller Coaster Kingdom

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:19:30 +0000

For an online game, Roller Coaster Kingdom on Facebook its not bad. The game lags badly, but is more responsive than when I first started playing. Roller Coaster Kingdom lags so badly that even with cable internet, the game application freezes the screen off and on. This still happens even through I have noticed less lagging recently, but that is to be expected because the app is still in beta mode.

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Game Review: Celebrity Life

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:18:10 +0000

Celebrity Life on Facebook almost sounds like another more popular game, Sorority Life. First off, there similarities in name are some of the only things in common with Sorority Life.

Celebrity Life
It took a couple months for the creators of Celebrity Life to finally allow energy (called events) and attack levels (called Walk-offs)to reset when leveling up. This is after myself and I am sure many others made that suggestion on their Celebrity Life Facebook fan page. There are no ways to earn favor points (called offerings), so when any special glam (called Fashion Guru) comes up, you have to spend money to get more.

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An A-Team movie finally coming together?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:39:55 +0000

Proposals and scripts for an A-Team movie have been going around for over a decade, but now it finally looks like it’s going to happen for real. The main cast seems set: Liam Neeson taking over George Peppard’s role as Hannibal Smith; Bradley Cooper in Dirk Bennedict’s role of Templeton Peck; Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in Mr. T’s role of B.A. Baracus, and now Sharlto Copley in Dwight Schultz’s role of H.M. Murdock. Jessica Biel is also apparently in the cast as an ex-fiance of Peck now hunting the team, and Watchmen’s Patrick Wilson will play a CIA operative on the hunt for the team.

The story and characters will be updated so that they will be Iraq War veterans instead of Vietnam vets; what else will change or stay the same remains to be seen, though early pictures show an A-Team van much like the original’s.

As a die-hard A-Team fan for many decades, my feelings about the project have been mixed from the start.

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Review: Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:03:03 +0000

Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies by Stewart Copeland hits bookstores today, September 29.

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I feel a little bit like pulling a Jedi Mind Trick here to start off this review. Or that perhaps Stewart Copeland has pulled one over on all of us readers, or that he should do before the angry shouts and rampant confusion surely begins.

Police fans looking for, at long last, Stewart’s definitive statement on The Police?

*handwave*

“This is not the book you are looking for.”

As far as I see it, Stewart made his definitive statement on the early Police years with Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out. (You can read my original review of that film in my archives.) If you’re expecting much more here, you’ll be disappointed, although there are a few brilliant gems of observation that slip through the cracks when and where you least expect it.

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What’s new with The Police?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:01:42 +0000

It’s now a little over a year since the end of The Police’s highly successful 2007-2008 Reunion Tour. So what are they all up to now? It’s interesting to see how the three members of the band have (or haven’t?) been keeping busy since then, perhaps using the tour as a launching pad for new projects of various kinds.

Stewart Copeland seemed to take very little time to rest at all before jumping into numerous new endeavors. During this past summer, he did a brief tour of Italy with his “La Notte Della Taranta” ensemble and also appeared at the La Jolla Music Festival in California to premiere a new piece of music. September will bring the world premiere of Ben Hur Live, a musical/stage spectacle which Stewart composed the music for (and for which he will be doing the live narration at the London premiere performances.)

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Michael Jackson

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:10:11 +0000

I was — I am – a child of the ’80s. It’s a label and designation I embrace with a certain pride and a lot of fondness for the arts and culture of the decade, no matter what later generations have to say about it and how much it may be looked at as “cheesy” and “superficial” today.

Even so, I was shocked by the extent to which Michael Jackson’s passing this past week affected me. I cannot claim that I have considered myself a “fan” of his since the 80s, yet there is no denying that during my early teen years, he was legendary, and one of the primary entertainment figures of the time.

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Using Twilight to promote another fandom?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:50 +0000

This morning I received an interesting email from one of the fan groups for Fiction Plane, an alt/rock-group which has been around for a number of years of which I am a moderate follower. Fiction Plane opened for The Police on the first half of their world tour in 2007-2008, perhaps not unsurprising given one of the members of the group, Joe Sumner, is Sting’s son. While that tour did manage to boost their visibility to the public, it didn’t really do much to get them on the charts or bring them widespread success, at least here in the U.S. where they maintain a loyal, but not especially large following.

Well, some fans are trying to think of creative ways to promote them, especially with a new album due out later this year. And what they’re proposing is a campaign to get a Fiction Plane song on the soundtrack for the next Twilight movie, “New Moon”. They’ve created a Facebook page for the campaign as well as having a thread about it on one of the main fan sites.

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Can LadySybilla and Russet Noon hang on long enough to change fandom?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:47:25 +0000

I’ve been following the Russet Noon situation with a lot of interest; it’s like the Star Wars book situation meets RDR that’s been crossed with a Harry Potter Lexicon with a bit of CounsinJean mixed in.

I’m really curious how this will turn out. The author of Russet Noon, LadySybilla, has done herself no favors in some regards by using Wikipedia for self promotion, engaging in alleged socketpuppeting and alleged trying to sell the books behind the scenes to bloggers. This falls pretty much into the realms of what happened to CousinJean and the Star Wars writer. Their actions might have fallen into a legal “gray zone”, but fandom pressure came to bear and both were punished so much by fandom that they largely left the fandom field of battle before they could get sued.

So far in this case, it doesn’t look like LadySybilla has been threatened with legal action. Why?

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Kanye West Hoax – Who is Laughing?

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:57:13 +0000

Well apparently the Twitter world is laughing at the hoax about Kanye West kicking the bucket in a car accident. This may have been done in response to a video by Spike Jonze which depicts the entertainer being killed in a car accident. Since this, the video has been pulled.

Since then, Twitter fluttered about with the trending topic RIP Kanye West, it has remained in the top list for more than 24 hours. Some tweeps jokes that the incident about the Balloon Boy was a better hoax. In fact, it only became a hoax after West’s girlfriend Amber Rose set the record straight, and even Los Angeles Times covered it in their article -

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Surrogates Movie Is Worth Seeing, But Barely

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:58:49 +0000

A day after seeing Michael Moore’s new film, I was off watching Surrogates. There’s a special place in my heart for sci-fi films, such as this one, and I was genuinely excited. Sometimes first impressions really shouldn’t be overlooked, though. I saw the trailer for Surrogates weeks ago, while seeing District 9 (which is a must-see movie of 2009). My first reaction to the trailer was laughter, and it seemed one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve seen a trailer for. As time went on, and I saw different clips, I began to feel differently. The concept seemed unique, and there wasn’t a whole lot else playing in the way of competition. So, in the end, I was choosing between Zombieland and Surrogates, and went with the latter.

This is a movie that had a lot more potential than it utilized. It certainly makes you question the nature of reality and the possibilities of advancing technology. It’s enjoyable, but it felt like it could have been so much more than what it was.

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Who Else Is Excited About Dexter?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:01 +0000

Dexter Season 4 recently started. I saw the premier only yesterday, but that means I’ll be catching up for the new third episode tonight! Dexter is pretty much officially my favorite current TV series. It’s extremely well-written and the acting and story lines are always pleasing. I know there’s a lot of people out there who haven’t seen it. This is a show which is predominantly spread via word-of-mouth by a very excited fan base. In fact, Dexter fans seem truly unique in their devotion of the series, and for good reason. This is a once-in-a-decade kind of a show, easily.

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