While everybody else is celebrating New Year’s Day, you can celebrate National Hangover Day (or celebrate not celebrating it) or any one of these 99 other Offbeat holidays throughout the year. Courtesy of Mental Floss!
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Offbeat Holidays to Celebrate | Mental Floss
2020 – Looking back to look forward
It’s strange to think that yet another year has passed, that in the arbitrary marking of the start and end point of the annual circle of the planet around the sun, we’ve come around yet again. But we have and so I’m going to set down some thoughts on the 12 months which just passed and 12 which are in front of us, just to take stock. Continue reading
Jaq’s Year in Books – 2019 edition
Well, another year is over and I’ve gotten through quite a few books to mark that passage of time.
I read a lot. Overall, this year, I read 90+ books. This translates into more than 20,000 pages and a good deal of time spent. Continue reading
Makes Perfect Scents | David Magazine
Who Knows What the Nose Knows? My latest piece, Makes Perfect Scents, is all about smells and how they make us feel!
Starlog!
Growing up, my passion for film, filmmaking, and science fiction was spurred, pretty much, by one magazine – Starlog. I used to get it all the time, especially if the cover was about a film/TV show I was either desperate to see or one I had seen and was obsessing over.
Today, I discovered the Starlog Archive online. Can’t wait for a break in my daily work so I can dive in and read some of the original thoughts on films long since sequalized, lionized, disregarded, and remade.
Categories: Art, Cinema, Personal, Science Fiction, TV
Tags: archive, film, filming, science fiction, starlog
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Alpha-Numeric
This just might be my next tattoo.
Categories: Art, On Writing, Personal
Tags: alphabet, letters and numbers, thoughts for a sunday morning
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Pumpkin carving 2019
For a couple of days now, all Monki has wanted was to get and carve a pumpkin. Okay, to be fair, she wanted to go to a pumpkin patch and get a pumpkin and she wanted to dress up like a puppy dog, while I dressed like a pirate and Rasa was a fairy. Continue reading
A David Bowie Graphic Songbook
Categories: Art, Cinema, Personal, Science Fiction
Tags: David Bowie, thoughts for a sunday morning
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Comic Con Baltics 2019
September 21-22, 2019, the dates of this year’s Comic Con Baltics, had been on my calendar since probably sometime in April, when I had been invited to come and meet the organizers to talk about the project which would become Generation Geek.
As time went by, several Generation Geek videos were released and I was asked if I would participate in the con itself. Naturally, I agreed. Of course, I didn’t know what I was agreeing to, but sure, I’m game for anything. Continue reading
Categories: Comic Books, Europe, Friends, Generation Geek, Monki, Personal, Science Fiction, Theater
Tags: agne Juskenaite, CCBaltics, comic-con baltics, david faustino, georgia hirst, happiness and cyanide, landon meier, maya devir, one of those days, Professor Jaq, Rob Denbleyker, Steven ogg, Yehuda Devir
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Holding Out for a Hero | David Magazine
The Dilemma of an Instant Multi-Millionaire…My original piece of short fiction for this month’s David Magazine, can be found here: Holding Out for a Hero.
Special thanks to Brad Kozak for the wonderful artwork!
