I got through my surgery and the recovery, so it’s time to give my thoughts on how the surgery went, along with a really quick update on the whole Polymega situation.
We discuss the current anime we’ve watched, along with the recent passing of Akira Toriyama, before getting into our March Rom-Com, with My Love Story With Yamada-Kun at Lv.999
Anime Review: Nadia – The Secret of Blue Water
I’ve been making a *very* good pace at lopping resolutions off the list – after last month I was able to take care of beating Marvel’s Midnight Suns, this month I was able to finish watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
Continue readingWe get a message from Escharum letting us know the Banished have Echo 216 as a hostage.
I have finally gotten my Polymega after a couple years of waiting. I have video of my unboxing the unit, and a discussion of some of the issues that I had out of the box, leading to me having to have the unit RMA’d.
Film Review: Horror Express
Horror Express is one of those public-domain horror films that comes up a lot in collections, but I think is sadly overlooked in favor of films that kicked off a genre, like Night of the Living Dead, or The Last Man On Earth and Vincent Price’s performance in that film. This is a damn shame – as Horror Express has Sir Christopher Lee and Sir Peter Cushing sharing a tremendous amount of screen time, with the two actors getting to play off each other in a way that they never got to with Hammer, and rarely got to with Amicus.
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Movie Review: Mission Impossible (1996)
When I first watched Mission: Impossible, and Tom Cruise’s first outing as Ethan Hunt – I was much younger – still in High School, with a degree of familiarity with the TV series from watching reruns on TV on Saturday mornings, or on cable on TV Land, and with a limited degree of familiarity with the spy or the suspense genre as a whole. So, I don’t think it worked for me the way that Brian De Palma intended. However, the passage of time has lead me to have more experience with thrillers, the spy genre in its multiple flavors, and some of De Palma’s other work (such as The Untouchables), which has lead me to a place where I think I’m able to re-appraise this film on its own terms – and I think it fares much better in this re-appraisal.
Continue readingI’ll have surgery done on my face on the week of the 14th and 15th, and will be recovering for several weeks following – so I’m going to talk about the procedure that’s going to be done (as of this recording – will have been done when this goes live).
Still recovering from surgery – so here’s more Trauma Center Speedrun from AGDQ, this time from 2019.
Recovering From Surgery
I’m recovering from my surgery today, so I’m not really in a state to write anything – instead here’s a speedrun of Trauma Center, from AGDQ 2020.
Vlog: More Aftermath from Chengdu Worldcon
More information has come out about the appalling behavior of Dave McCarty and the Chengdu Worldcon committee, with a full report from File 770. I give some thoughts on the new revelations and next courses of action.