I don’t remember how, or when I first heard about, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novella All You Need Is Kill, but I remember being super interested. The idea of a guy living the same day every day, fighting against an alien race sounded amazing. It’s basically groundhogs day in a sci-fi military action setting. I finally got a chance to check it out for the first time last year, and re-listened to the audiobook recently in preparation for the movie Edge of Tomorrow. It’s just as enjoyable now as it was the first time through, possibly even better.
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The Sorcerer and the White Snake
When a movie crosses one’s path with Jet Li in a starring role, it’s difficult to imagine anything but a cool action kung fu movie. Don’t get me wrong. While this movie is packed with demon-fighting action, it is really a love story.
Dave’s Time at Rhode Island Comic Con 2013
There are a few good reasons why I was really excited about RI Comic Con 2013. First, it was really close to my house. But more importantly, it had an amazing and huge guest list. Here’s a list of just some of the awesome guests:
- Danny Glover (Die Hard of course)
- Billie Dee Williams (y’know)
- Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell Smith (both leads from Weird Science)
- William Zabka and Martin Kove (Johnny and Sensei Kreese from The Karate Kid… “sweep the leg”)
- Sam Jones (Flash freakin’ Gordon!)
- Sarah Douglass and Jack O’Halloran (baddies from Superman 2)
- Every single bounty hunter from Star Wars! (first ever together… collect them all!)
- Alan Oppenheimer (Skeletor, Masters of the Universe)
- Larry Kenny (Liono, Lord of the Thundercats)
- Jeremy Shada (Finn from Adventure Time)
- …and a zillion more. …a zillion.
Rhode Island Comic Con 2013 Cosplay
Below are some cosplay photos from the Rhode Island Comic Con 2013 in Providence, RI, Nov 2-3. I’m Ming the Merciless being pictured with William Zabka (Johnny from The Karate Kid) and SAM JONES (Flash Gordon of course).
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Pictures from RI Comic Con 2013.
Doctor Sleep
I don’t remember how old I was when I first saw The Shining. I’m guessing I wasn’t that much older than little Danny Torrance from the film. When I got older, and I got into Stephen King books for the second time, I went back and listened to (I’m a huge audio book fan) The Shining, and while it was a very different book from the movie, it was still really good. I’m not sure which I prefer better, but they were both excellent in their respective ways.
Most Stephen King books end with me wanting more. I usually want to know what happened to the characters after they’ve endured the madness the author subjects them to. Both versions of The Shining left me wondering what happened to young Danny Torrance after all that he experienced at The Overlook Hotel. Over the years Stephen King thought about that same question, and he came up with a pretty good answer in Doctor Sleep.
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