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films of high adventure, volume twelve: some very big trouble, located in little china

Jesse Bullington and I have (perhaps foolishly) decided to embark upon a quest: watching "classic" adventure movies that informed one or both of our childhoods. These columns will run every Wednesday on our blogs, excluding the last post of each month, which will appear over at Fantasy Magazine. Today is a very special entry, as we watched this film in order to celebrate my beloved husband John's 29th birthday! Yay! So, uh, it will contain images from the film and from our party, because I'm ...

so my site is awesome

Thanks to the efforts of two awesome people, my site is pretty much up and running! First off, my dawgg Mason set up the initial WP site, and he is awesome and dealt with my complete craziness and utter ignorance of what I needed or wanted. You should go check out his charity.

The absolutely gorgeous banner is courtesy Stephen at Reakt Design. Stephen's work speaks for itself but he is also a super-nice dude which made working with him fun on the "omg look at my adorable site!" level as well a...

i love my city

Apparently Boulder (my fair city) is doing its part to ensure that no business trips to Arizona can or will be taken by city employees. Regardless of how I feel about the ban, I must say I enjoy the way they're going about it. To wit, this email exchange (procured by my local newspaper under the Colorado Open Records Act) between a Mr. Markewich, president of the Markewich Financial Group (located in Colorado Springs), and Boulder City Councilman Macon Cowles.

Mr. Markewich's initial email:

films of high adventure, volume eleven: beastmaster

Jesse Bullington and I have (perhaps foolishly) decided to embark upon a quest: watching "classic" adventure movies that informed one or both of our childhoods. This week we're breaking out the Bandits and summoning forth hyper-intelligent overdubbed ferrets for your reading pleasure!

The Film: The Beastmaster (1982)

WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS??? Direction by Don Coscarelli who, between the Phantasm series and Bubba Ho-tep, knows his way around a B movie. Donny boy co-wrote with Paul Pepperman...

new (to me) cinematographic delights; rwtp news

A few films I've watched over the past few weeks have inspired me to break the radio silence on the blog. That, and the fact that apparently my awesome uncle Glenn got his copy of Running with the Pack that he had pre-ordered, so yay! I'm going to talk about the book more extensively after I've read a few more of the stories so for now: it is beautiful (I got my contributor copy), it is filled with awesome stories. Woo!

Sherlock Holmes: I went down to visit my parents recently and had a...

films of high adventure, volume ten: legend

Oh ho, dear reader! Films of High Adventure has been picked up by Fantasy Magazine once a month, and today is our debut where we run roughshod over Legend while admitting the effect the Black Dress Scene had on our young hearts and minds. Hope you like it!

films of high adventure, volume nine: vampire hunter d

Jesse Bullington and I have (perhaps foolishly) decided to embark upon a quest: watching "classic" adventure movies that informed one or both of our childhoods. This week we tackle prolly the first for-grownups anime I ever watched and thus love even though. . . well, moving on!

The Film: Vampire Hunter D (1985)

Also Known As: Kyûketsuki hantâ D (1985)

WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS??? Original series of novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi, which feature illustrations by certifiably badass artist Yoshitaka...

oh my goodness

So a million years ago when I was just a wee Tanz I watched The Princess Bride and I knew then forevermore my heart belonged to Cary Elwes and eventually my life would turn out like this:

except with photoshop, i guess

Well, that didn't happen, but that's OK because I am in love with this new project in that gibbering head-over-heels sort of manner that people affect when they've met that new someone (you know, when you can't shut up about your new squeeze and no one cares but your friends...

films of high adventure, volume eight: tank girl

Well! News! OMG! "Films of High Adventure" has been picked up by Fantasy Magazine! Now, on the last Wednesday of each month, Jesse and I will run roughshod over the childhoods of many a film-watcher for the Fantasy audience. Our first go-round for FM will be Legend, so fear not, we will indeed deal with the devil soon enough. We'll still be running the column weekly on our blogs, but our more fantasy-movie fodder will be over there, and our fantasy/sci-fi/adventure/whatever movies will be...