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The Mandalorian Makes Me Appreciate Star Wars

Scopique November 14, 2020

Talking about Star Wars is like putting a political sign in your yard: you’re bound to get some crazy in your face no matter what your position. Back when I was a kid, had seen the original trilogy about 35 times in…

Star Trek Lower Decks

Scopique October 8, 2020

I can’t believe I almost wrote off Star Trek Lower Decks. I’m sure there are people out there who think the idea of a “comedic take on the staid and serious Star Trek” is a personal affront and will want nothing to…

We’ve Lost More Than Just a Band We Didn’t Know We Had

Scopique September 14, 2020

I wanted to talk a little about this documentary that I found yesterday. It’s about a rock band called Halyx, created by Disney in the early 80’s, featured at it’s California park for a single summer engagement, and then never heard from…

Swinging a Deadcat

Scopique May 25, 2020

In my bid to become the best-equipped non-streamer, I finally got a mic for my GH7. With the camera mounted on my rather springy webcam mounting arm and connected to the PC via the Elgato HD60S, I am able to stream at…

Gaming in the Age of Coronavirus

Scopique March 23, 2020

My wife really likes Cards Against Humanity, despite none of the cards really having the same comedic impact the 700th time they’re encountered. Although we — like many other folks — are house-bound, my wife was determined to find some way of…

Stories of Days Gone By

Scopique February 7, 2020

Back in junior high, before computers were as ubiquitous as they are now, I took a class about how to use them. Yes, kids, there was a time when people had to be taught how to use a computer. I mean, I…

Cancel Culture in TV & Streaming

Scopique January 17, 2020

I woke up this morning thinking about Travelers. I loved Travelers. It was an amazingly well constructed story about people from the future sent back into the past in order to nudge events that would hopefully result in a different outcome…eh…in the…

Please Silence Your Phones For This Announcement

Scopique January 15, 2020

I figure that if I were to chart my interests over time — the number of them, the intensity of focus — the resulting graph would represent less of a calm and gentle slope and more of a straight and vertical slash…

The DV Rebel’s Guide For People With Ambition But Not A Lot Of Money

Scopique December 5, 2019

In yet another case of starting something, I’ve picked up “The DV Rebel’s Guide” An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap” from Amazon last week. In this book, former ILM artist and co-founder of the VFX company The…

The Wandering Earth

Scopique May 13, 2019

Western movies have been made for a more global audience for years now, whether that’s because the Western cineplex has become about as popular as the Western shopping mall, or because movies studios realize that countries like China are becoming more and…