The Education of Master Torgo

Posted on | June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

Listening to the podcasts over the past few months you may have heard me joke about my “educating” mastertorgo on Robert E. Howard and Conan. As a long time Conan fan and Howard purist, I hoped to give at least one fantasy fan a better understanding of one of fantasy’s founding fathers. Howard and Conan have gotten a bad rap, and there is a dedicated group that works to do something about that.

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In My Day

Posted on | May 25, 2011 | 2 Comments

Growing up one of my favorite movies was Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood. Cool archery, great fencing, that movie brought my family’s house to a stop whenever it showed up on tv. I also read Greek and Roman mythology like a mad fiend. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bernard Evslin’s The Trojan War and Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths gave me tons of tales of magic and heroics. So it was only natural that when I came across The Lord of the Rings and Conan I would be swept up in some truly awesome shit.

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Stop Cryin’ Before I Give You Something To Cry About

Posted on | May 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

Ok, last week a friend on Facebook posted a comment on how today’s Hollywood film makers need to pay less attention to their calculators and more attention to scripts. Uh-huh. Before that I had a brief argument with a friend over Hollywood’s recent “hatred” of original ideas; every movie last year was a remake, reboot, sequel, or adaptation of a teevee show or book or comic.

Snore. There’s nothing more boring than unoriginal cookie cutter arguments about unoriginal cookie cutter Hollywood.

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Star Wars the Musical (Circa Class of 96′)

Posted on | April 8, 2011 | No Comments

Your appreciation of this piece hinges on two criteria: (1) Your absolute knowledge of Star Wars and (2) Your absolute knowledge of musicals that were popular in the mid nineties.  If you are well versed in these two criteria, the following is comedy gold.  Like the new off-Broadway production of the Spiderman parody, It is a zero-budget, high school production with a lot of heart and talent.  Especially in the writing.  All I know about the prodution is that George Lucas shut down the production after three sold-out performances.  Pity. 

Click below to watch the show….
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