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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
The Beast is back.
A Matter of Life and Death (henceforth AMOLAD) is the 14th studio album from Iron Maiden, and marks the third studio album since Bruce Dickinson's return as the lead singer.
Long time Maiden fans have to pause and marvel at the concept: thirty-one years after the formation of ...
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Last night, I watched Hitman. Tonight, I popped in Contract Killer.
It's the same movie...
I mean, the same movie - as in the same film released under a different name and with English dubbing.
Maybe it's time to lay off the Chinese cinema?
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
On occasion, television executives make a heartless decision to screw with a new series, mix up the airing order, put it in poor time slots, and then cancel it before it really forms an audience.
In cases like Firefly or Boomtown, you're forced to question their thinking.
In a case like Crusade, ...
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
Peter Hamilton writes bricks.
I first encountered Hamilton from the Science Fiction Book Club. They were selling the first four books of the Night's Dawn series as two volumes: The Neutronium Alchemist and The Reality Dysfunction. Later, The Naked God (two books again in one volume) came along to ...
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Short review - two hours of my life that could have been better spent cleaning my house gutters with my tongue.
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Wannabe writers are jealous souls. I imagine that actually publishing a book doesn't remove that jealous gene, but I'll write about that on the day I cross that threshold, if ever. For now, I'll confine myself to raging impotently against the injustice represented by Sue Grafton, the prolific estate of ...
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