Jamie Wakefield

You know, I was actually working on a book a few minutes ago, but I had to take a quick break to alert you to this: http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/video/iFanboy_-_Episode__129_-_Miracleman This is a video podcast about Miracleman. My most favoritest comic book character ever. He’s a cheap rip off of Captain Marvel (who the general public will know as Shazam) who is a cheap rip off of Superman. But Alan Moore and his artists took the material to someplace deep, philosophical, brutal, fierce, and magical. They took a completely stupid concept and Alan Moore ran with it. He made it into something logical, believable, and it took your breath away. A host of artists worked on it, some better than others, but in general, the art was a labor of love for these guys and it showed. Because of rights disputes to who owned the character, the issues stopped at 24. The next issue is actually all written and drawn but not colored yet. The creator is fighting for his right to publish it but it’s been tie...

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Gratuitous Wendy Photo Warning – Major spoilers. The Time Traveler’s Wife is one of my favorite novels of all time, and being the voracious reader I am, that’s high praise. Wendy pointed out that maybe that is because I identify so much with Henry. We have a lot of similarities. 1. We need to run or we die. 2. Drinking releases anxiety. 3. When too much anxiety happens, we disappear. 4. Women love us. (I’m sorry but it’s true. :-) 5. Other stuff I don’t feel like going into. The movie didn’t get very good reviews but, I had to see it. I kept some twitter like notes while I watched it which I will now clean up and add to. I should preface a few things. If you are going to do a movie adaption of any work of fiction, you can change things, but some things need to remain true to the original source. Let’s take Batman for instance. He has some things that everyone knows about him, and while you might change his origins, history, or abilities, there are some things you CANNOT change. 1. He d...

Let’s start with a video recommended to me by one of my bestest ever friends, Miss Lorelei. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcvj3JiGA “No Time to Think” is a video about information overload. (Don’t worry, the guy with the hard to follow accent is not the main speaker, he just introduces him.) It is a fascinating piece on information overload, advertising, the internet, the great manufacturing machine and testing. One of the parts that really struck home was about a woman who won a prize in medicine. She said the way she figured out the solution was to stop and think. Rather than see some test results, make a quick conclusion, then move on to the next test to see what you can find out, she just stopped and thought for days on each test. She didn’t just proceed to the next test which is what most people in her field did. She just thought - and solved the problem. And then they started talking about the environment, I got bored and turned it off. But as Lorelei had told me, let it sink ...

Wendy and I are getting married this August. Weddings are an odd thing. There are so many choices to make, so many traditions to follow or ignore, so many people to invite or, worse, not invite. So many things that are possible, and impossible. We have found a fantastic venue, a great cake maker, a great photographer and an amazing videographer. It was funny. I investigated a number of videographers and found one who has examples on his website that literally brought me to tears. (I am a big girl, but no, still not gay.) I showed it to Wendy while she sat on my lap in front of the computer, thinking she would be as moved as I. While I have snot and tears running down my nose she says “I hate Dave Mathews” which the video montage was set to. Sigh. Click this link then go to “demo videos” first one. http://www.weddingvideoman.com/ We were going to have “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol as our wedding song since it meant so much to us when we first met, but really doesn’t fit us anymore. “Wil...

So, we’re watching “Bones” and “Fringe” and “Castle” and as usual, TV follows a certain formulae that I hate. Why don’t they shoot people more? And how come every time they shoot someone, they die? “Stop! FBI!” and the guy goes running off and the agent chases them. Sometimes they catch them, and sometimes they do not. Usually the agent is running with a gun in his or her hand . Why exactly don’t they shoot the perp in the leg? Why exactly do cars get to go screaming off, the agent fires a bunch of shots which might or might not hit the back window and shatter it but they never shoot for a tire? And what is the deal with no romance between the two stars? This was a disaster on “Moonlighting” and ever since then it has been forbidden to have two people, obviously attracted to each other, obviously in love, obviously lusting after each other – pretend that no such feelings exist. Its become a Hollywood cliché that as soon as you have the two main characters fall into bed the series is do...

If I was a betting man, I would have lost a lot of money last night. I have actually bet on a UFC event once in my life and made $500 on it. When Jens Pulver lost to Joe Lauzon. I only bet against Jens because he was such a heavy favorite. I bet on all the underdogs on that event. Every other underdog lost. (Now that I know Jens, I would never, EVER bet against the man just because he is such a good soul.) Last night, I would have lost a lot of money. I was sure Swick, Marquart, Couture and Trigg would win. I was so sure I almost bet a lot of money on all of them. I was wrong about everyone but Couture. My good friend, Dave Meddish, says I should update more frequently with smaller posts. I agree with him. So, there you go.

Experts are predicting Trigg loses to Serra. Um. No F'ing way. The fight is tonight and I predict Trigg destroys Serra. We'll see in 6 hours.

I was thinking last night while I lay in bed, failing to fall asleep. Time is usually divided into two periods, those being “B.C” and “A.D.” Now, I’ve heard those don’t actually mean “Before Christ” and “After Death” but that’s generally how they are viewed. If so, we need a new time period. A man stumbles into a small town after being lost in the desert for years. After getting lots of water and a cheeseburger (because everyone who has ever been lost when asked what they most want to eat they inevitably reply with “A McDonalds cheeseburger.” Well, they usually say a Big Mac, but those hadn’t been invented yet.) He approaches a man and says “I’ve been lost for so long, what is the date good sir?” “Why it’s Tuesday, August 5th, 11 D.C.” “D.C? What’s that?” “See that boy over there? That’s Jesus Christ. For some reason, the years started with him. When he was born we stopped counted the years in negatives and started over at one. No one knows why. So right now, we’ve gone from “Before Ch...