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Posted on 05.20.13 by Widge @ 1:15 pm
Comments on this: 4 so far. Add your own.  Just a headsup: my short story collection, Something Else: The Complete First Season--previously (and still) available on the Kindle--is now also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by me. My story, "Matches," serves as the audio sample. It's twenty-four pieces of short fiction and the entire thing clocks in at just under two hours. You can snag the audiobook for just around $6 or grab it free if you sign up for an Audible trial period. Either way, whatever form you try out the book, leave a review on Amazon for it, would you? And help to spread the word. It's greatly appreciated. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 05.20.13 by Widge @ 7:50 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I'm not sure what your relationship to the series China Beach is, but mine's pretty simple: I had never seen it before. Oh, I was aware of it. I even knew Dana Delany had gotten her career started in the show. But it began at the end of my high school days and I had already drifted away from being able to spend lots of time watching television, so I just never had the opportunity to check it out. Thus in my head it was simply "MASH, but in Vietnam and with a focus on nurses." Cut to today and we've got the whole damn thing having hit from Time-Life on DVD (the same people who hoisted that tremendous Carol Burnett boxed set into the market recently, yes) and it's a lot easier to take in and appreciate the thing when viewed in its entirety. Most impressively, as time went on...well, time went on. Whereas MASH lasted a helluva lot longer than the war that served as its backdrop, China Beach let time pass and its characters go home. Then it followed what happened after they got there, including the role of PTSD for those that did. Hell, it even visited the Vietnam War Memorial. Pretty intense stuff. Being a MASH fan, I can say with some embarrassment that speaking on that fandom...we just got AfterMASH. So. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 04.29.13 by Widge @ 12:01 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 04.16.13 by Widge @ 4:38 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 03.21.13 by Widge @ 10:10 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  We've been remiss in posting about Threadless sales...but either the sale would kick in and we couldn't find a ton of inspiring shirts at the moment we looked or something else was distracting us, like we were trying to keep from being ejected out of an airlock or something. (Long story.) Anyway, there is still time to snag $10 tees in this particular sale, as it ends tomorrow at 5pm CT. And they have piled on the shirts, so there's still a bunch worth snagging. And shirts, especially $10 ones, make handy things to bank in your gift closet for the right person and occasion. Plus: they have a HOLYSHIP code which, when used in conjunction with $25 worth of $10 shirts (yes, do the math yourself--and also $50 for international orders), gets you free shipping. Nice. Anyway, some quick pointers to shirts of note. Obviously, the new "I Hate Vegans" protest shirt, designed by Aaron Jay, makes us very happy. I think it's the indignant carrot front and center that does it for me. And maybe also because said carrot puts me in mind of a classic song, placed below the break for your convenience... Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 03.18.13 by Widge @ 7:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 02.26.13 by Widge @ 9:19 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.   Ah, the movie musical. Hollywood and the moviegoing public has fallen in and out of love with you seemingly dependent on which way the wind is blowing. It's only in recent years with entries like Moulin Rouge and Chicago that Hollywood has figured out--like with most things--that if just do the damn thing correctly (or at the very least, in a flawed but interesting fashion)--we'll show up. And of course we have the slow march of Broadway musicals through development hell to the big screen--and the reverse pollination of movies into musicals and onto Broadway. The obvious success story for this has been the rejuvenation of Mel Brooks but other titles like Lion King and Spamalot spring to mind. Forming a syllabus for a decent master class in movie musicals, you get the Musicals edition of the line of Best of Warner Brothers: 20 Film Collections. Let's be clear and get the obvious question out of the way front and center: no, there's nothing new here. As you probably suspected, when you open the three cases (split up into different time spans (1927-1951, 1951-1964 and 1967-1988--that's right, don't be looking for Cats Don't Dance) you see that you've got the primary discs from the previous DVD releases of these titles. You do get the bonus features that came on those discs, so that's something, yes? Especially when it's some gems like the Frank Oz commentary on Little Shop of Horrors, the historian commentary on Wizard of Oz, and all the vintage featurettes and shorts that come on the older titles. (Full list of titles to follow.) Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 02.15.13 by ScottC @ 10:00 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Well, yes, yesterday saw the return of Mandatory Romance Occasion or as it is commonly known, Valentine's Day. That day when couples desperately reach for the same cliche activities like the Fancy Dinner TM, the dozen roses, and, you know, some sort of jewelry. And for the singles, you might have drowned your loneliness in some sort of sugar, fat, or alcohol or--and more likely--a combination of all three. But complaining about Valentine's Day has become a cliche in itself. So no more bitching and moaning, we move on to Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's perfume that broaden your perspectives while delighting your nose. Categorized as: Headsup
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Posted on 02.04.13 by Widge @ 5:23 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 01.03.13 by Widge @ 11:49 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  It's very seldom that you get a Kickstarter project that manages to tap into three of our favorite things all at once. The first is, naturally, zombies. If it's undead and bleeds, it leads--that's been our motto pretty much since day one. Pop culture references are a nice second. Scary retro or retro gold, either one--we'll take it. And third is utter silliness. Admittedly, Pet Zombie Rocks might just be the silliest goddamn thing we've seen in quite some time. I won't spoil the video for you, but it's probably fairly close to what you're already envisioning. The end goal of this Kickstarter is to create hand-crafted, unique, painted undead rocks. No, don't bother to read that sentence again--it will refuse to make sense. Still, this vid is worth the price of admission. Categorized as: Headsup
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