Best Movies You’ve Never Heard Of: Tapeheads

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“Any ordinary man would have given it up by now!” In my treasure trove of favorite movie experiences, few match the wit, mirth and profound charm that is baked into the 1988 classic: Tapeheads. Directed by Bill Fishman, a music video director who would go on to direct other excellent films based in the music biz such as “Reckless & Wild” and “My Dinner with Jimi”, Tapeheads is a wonderfully creative and humorous story of 2 best friends and their pursuit of their dreams. Josh (Tim Robbins) wants to make…

Spider-Man Casting 2015 – Who’s Line Is It Anyway?

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Update: Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man and will appear in Captain America: Civil War. Congrats Tom! Back in February of this year Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced that they had entered into an agreement to start a new franchise of Spider-Man movies, that would allow him to become a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Essentially, a new actor would be given an opportunity to become Peter Parker for a whole slew of new Spidey flicks as well as other Marvel films such as Captain America: Civil War…

Road to Nerfed Llamas 2 – the Biwwie Goat #nerfedllamas

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Way back in the ancient era known as 2012, I began work on revamping an idea I had for a web comic. Putting pencil to paper, I created the foundation for what would ultimately become the identity of my website as well as a darn good reason to activate my creative side for the first time in a good long while. Nerfed Llamas, the web comic, at it’s core was designed to exemplify the best and worst of nerd culture. Every comic strip needs a concept, and above and beyond…

Site Redesign – 05/14/2015

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Hey gang, I played with the design of my initial site (which admittedly sucked) a whole lot, and have landed on a new layout. Hopefully this one is more appealing to the eye, makes all the articles pop better, and has some menu and widget upgrades. I’m still working on the mobile version, so bear with me. What do you think, better? Worse? Give me some feedback.

Adventures in Staffing: a Day at the Office – Memoirs

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Adventures in Staffing: a Day at the Office – Memoirs Woke up at 6:10 AM. Correction, hit snooze at 6:10 AM, and proceeded to snooze until 6:36 AM. Reluctantly, I slithered out of my bed, away from the covers and the loving wife that I could still be comfortably spooning. I slapped my hand against the switch panel on the wall in the bathroom, accidentally turning the exhaust on instead of the light, then nearly crapped my boxer shorts because it sounded like a 747 taking off just above me.…

#saveforever – the Effort by the Internet to Save the Freshman Televison Series: Forever

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It’s that time of year again, when the Grim Reaper gets paid overtime by the television networks to claim the souls of TV shows that have not made the ratings to justify being renewed. Freshly cut by the dealer of death is the freshman ABC drama, Forever. Forever is an American TV show, a drama with fantasy elements, produced by Warner Brothers TV and created by Matt Miller. The series follows the ongoing adventures of Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd), a medical examiner in New York City who has a…

BAMF! – the Dead Stacys original song – lyrics

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I promised the world a song this week, or at least the lyrics for a song, and I aim to keep my promises. This is actually part of a long term goal/passion project I have been cooking up for years now. It’s a total comic book nerd concept album, which will mix my love for comics with my favorite music types, namely rock, punk, new wave, big band, and pop. It’s like the best of comics meets the best of rock n roll for the Marvel Team Up of the…

Road to Nerfed Llamas 1 concept art #nerfedllamas

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As I try to get back in the swing of drawing regularly, I have been taking a walk down memory lane, and in doing so I have come across a few pieces of concept art from my first attempt to get Nerfed Llamas off the ground. Here is the first piece that I would like to share with. It is a classic from 2012, featuring renditions of the main cast. You have the Biwwie Goat, a subtle yet bombastic little scamp. Rodger Dodger, gamer cat extraordinaire. And Dr. Love Groove,…

Professional Goals

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On top of attempting this whole “blog” thing, I do have goals and aspirations that transcend the confines of a dot com website. Some of these are pipe dreams, some of these are attainable enough with the proper planning, motivation and luck. Without further ado, I present to you my professional goals (i.e. things I want to do over the course of my adult life to fulfill my dreams and make some dead presidents) in no particular order: Self publish a novel for sale. This one shouldn’t be too tough,…