Beyond My Geeky Life

For those of you who check out this blog and do not know, I am a writer. And as a semi-pro I can tell you it is not easy and getting any level of notice feels great. I also know a good amount of other small artists, one of them did a whole video on how to support small artists. Check her video out and check out the Losing Lara channel, as she has a lot of fun geeky stuff there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9hFutS7pEs If any of my readers want to see what I have been up to lately, check out: http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/what-lies-in-the-wastelands/    http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/cant-go-home-again/   http://nomadicdeliriumpress.com/blog/product/where-do-you-go-from-here/ All of them are also available on Amazon, where someone I do not know has left five star reviews for me, which feels real good.

A while back I wrote a review of the book Ready Player One. It will not be long now until we get the movie adaptation. You can see the trailer for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2fhOY0nE I enjoyed the trailer, but was disappointed that it did not give any hint of the story. The action was good and we were given a flood of the visual effects. We are given the most basics of the world. The problem is anyone not familiar with the book will not know what the movie is about. I also found it interesting that most of what we see in the trailer does not appear in the book (unless I am misremembering something). While I loved those scenes, I am wondering how they fit into it all. I have never been a purest when it comes to the source materiel. I've seen great adaptations done that have taken great liberties from the original souces. So that is not bothering me, I just want to see more so I know the story is there. No matter what, Ready Player One will undoubtedly have m...

So the big news today is that the 13th Doctor will be Jodie Whittaker ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2092886/ ), our first female Doctor. I am binge watching Broadchurch today in order to get familiar with her I have no problem at all with the idea of a woman playing the Doctor, outside of the idea of finding the Doctor attractive, which does feel a little odd after a life time of male Doctors. I am ready to see what direction they take this change and how this alters the dynamics of the series. There is no doubt this is a big change that will attract attention, both positive and negative. Everything I have seen so far personally has been people all for this and ready for a female Doctor. Of course that is the crowd I associate with.  I have heard reports that I do not find surprising, just disappointing, that there has been those who have a negative reaction to this news. Found this pic for anyone looking to read comments about the casting: Regretfully chances are real go...

If you didn't know, I am a bit of a Star Wars fan, and I do a little collecting here and there. I also have an army of R2-D2s And there are more of them in other displays, as well as packed away because I am unable to find room to display them. R2 has always been my favorite character and he is so easy to merchandise. I love it when I run across a new piece that corresponds to me having money (It is annoying how those two have to come together). This last weekend I was at Denver Comic Con, which I always enjoy. As of late for various reason I have not been picking up pieces too often, so I was not going out of my way to look. But on my last trip through the dealers room, I stopped to look at a booth selling Japanese merchandise of all manner. And I found this guy: It is an R2 on a bottle cap. The bottle cap itself does not have any groves on it, so you just place it over the opening. Not sure how they were distributed, as there is not really a practic...

Today we see the release of what truly may be about the most anticipated super hero movie ever. Wonder Woman. Anyone who reads this blog knows I am not a DC comics fan. I have never been able to get into their comics (With a handful of exceptions) and rarely find their movies worth seeing. Superman vs Batman is one of the worst, most poorly convinced movies I have ever suffered through. Suicide Squad was...not sure how to describe a movie that empty in story, plot and character. Despite all the praise, I found The Dark Knight lacking, with only the portrayal of the Joker being well done. Which may not saying much, as I find the character of the Joker to be weak at its core.(I may have a future post to write on why the Joker is a poor character in general)  I have not had any desire to see a single DCU film in the theaters due to just how poor they have routinely done with their movies. Yet something about Wonder Woman is making me want to see it in the theaters to learn if it...

While I may have only been 2 at the time 40 years ago when the first film hit theaters, the impact of the event on my life is unmistakable. I do not remember a time before Star Wars, it has always been there as far as I am concerned. Out of all my collecting, none has measure up the my Star Wars collection. It has been where my passion has been the most focused. While I kept a handful of pieces from my childhood, I have been actively working on my Star Wars collection since I was 16 and that is where the bulk of my collection has come from. Both  my boys have grown up surrounded by Star Wars and openly embracing it. My oldest's first words were 'R2' and 'Bacca'. They both were swinging lightsabers as soon as they could hold one. Me as a Jedi at the first Star Wars Celebration Next to the X-Wing fighter at the first Star Wars Celebration I have countless Star Wars related memories from various events and conventions. Waiting in line to see Ge...

Last night we got out and saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Really enjoyable, well worth seeing, great sequel.  Very much did what a sequel should do in advancing the over all story line that had been started in the first film. This post is not about Guardians of the Galaxy though. One enjoyable aspect of seeing films in the theater for me is the trailers. Had some good ones and some not so good ones. I was already looking forwards to Spider-Man homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Star Wars episode 8. I'm still unsure about Wonder Woman. Have no desire to see The Mummy, mostly becasue of Tom Cruise(Any more his name is something that keeps me away from a film). Saw my first glimpse at the new Kingsmen movie, and it has promise. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets looks good. Then we got Transformers:The Last Knight. The Transformers movie series was not that good to start with after you get over the flash of it all and what you thought was a coolness of seeing the Tran...