Jamie Wakefield

1. If I had the power to enter and control dreams there would be a lot more oiled up and bi-curious women. 2. Some guy rudimentarily trained in psychic self defense shouldn’t able to hold off six guys who are ninjas in this particular art. 3. If I could shape reality, I wouldn’t bend architecture, I would be the Hulk, Superman or God. 4. What a waste of Ellen Page’s talent. One of the best actresses ever- reduced to a bit part. 5. Any movie involving Leonardo Decaprio should end with him dying a horrible death. I just hate that guy. Sorry. 6. The one cool thing about that film was Marion Cotillard playing Leonardo’s wife and when she appeared, they played the music from Édith Piaf in “La vida en rosa” (2007), Cotillard was able to gain both critical appraisal as well as commercial success. For her powerful performance she has won numerous awards, including Oscar, Cèsar, Bafta and Golden Globe as best leading actress. That was very clever. 7. I tried to accept their premise of how dream...

Avatar rocks and the little dog is going to fat camp. Maybe you haven’t seen it but when Avatar was released, many people compared it to Pocahontas. White guy goes native and falls in love with an Indian (Native American.) Wendy gave me the three disc extended version on Blu-Ray for Christmas and we just watched it this morning. What a great start to the day. I thought after seeing it for the second time (in the theatre) that I had absorbed it all. I really didn’t need to see it again, but thought it one of my favorite movies. James Cameron is The Man. In my next life, I’m not coming back as a writer, but a writer/director. Wait… How about I follow my own advice and just do that now? Humans live a long damn time and it’s not too late. Anywhoo… what a work of art. Just amazing. I loved it more on the third viewing than I did on the first. Those that compare it to Pocahontas, did you miss the part where the protagonist is paralyzed and finds new experiences in a new body? That the GOD of...

I am looking for an article and in doing so, came upon this one. It has already been posted but for those who haven't seen it, I hope you enjoy it. It has been edited and added to. Beautiful things. A long time ago I wrote a column about “Beautiful Things.” If I remember correctly, the premier item was “The Last Defender of Camelot” audio book by Roger Zelazny and read by “Odo” from “Deep Space Nine.” Or maybe you remember him better as the snide Butler on “Benson.” Regardless of how you remember him, Rene Auberjonois had the best reading voice I have ever heard and holds that title to this day. He has such mastery of his voice you think there are multiple cast members, but no, he is all the voices. Nothing else compares. It could be compared to sitting on your grandfather’s lap, in the middle of an ancient medieval Inn, a fire roaring, the crowd breathlessly listening to an old man with a beard weave a tale of magic that would stay with those people for the rest of their lives. I ...

Sorry for the lack of updates. Holidays and all, ya know? On top of that we have a very nice woman painting our apartment so we spend a lot of time moving furniture, cleaning it, then moving it back. We moved our sofa into the other room and since Wendy is female, decided that we should take all the cushions out of their covering, shake out the dust and dog hair, then put them all back in. (All very logical but men would just move stuff back into its previous space and not even vacuum the floor where the furniture has been sitting. Men.) Anyway, that alone took until 1:00 in the afternoon. That one simple task. Right now we have all our books piled in 18 stacks because the wall holding all those books is getting painted. Soon, we will move them all back. And the shopping of course. Between a dentist appointment and shopping for Wendy’s gift, I was gone from the moment I got up and showered until 2:30 in the afternoon. We’re going on a scuba vacation shortly after Christmas so I have to...

I would pay cash money to see the guys who did this trailer make a movie. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-who-dc-universe/702050 The game itself is done by the guys who did City of Heroes, which I enjoyed for about six months. I'm pretty sure the game won't look like that trailer, but it makes me want to play it anyway. I think that is the best trailer I have ever seen. Thanks to Chris McMahon for showing the link to me.

Secret Force: Quest for the Pro Tour II is now available. Secret Force contains everything from first seeing the card Verdant Force, to trying to make a deck out of it, to testing sessions with the hilarious Joshie Trash Talker and the evil genius of Magic, Alan Webster. From there chapters include local tournaments, playing at Shawn “Hammer” Regnier’s store, the evolution of the deck, attending Pro Tour Qualifiers, some philosophy lessons, additions to the Wakefield School of Magic and playing Army Magic in the middle of the Vermont forest in the dead of winter. It contains a small amount of new material, reprinted articles you may have already seen, articles that were only published in magazines, and the secret letter I sent out to Green mages only, showing them Secret Force for the first time. It has been edited thoroughly, set in chronological order and while it contains strategy and theories you might find useful, I think it makes for a more compelling story than anything else. If...