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Star Trek movie rewatch – The Motion Picture 1979

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Rewatching the Star Trek movies! What’s the point of blogging about Trek when every bit of trivia minutiae has already been explored at length? I’m rewatching these in terms of characters, and hopefully sorting out the characters’ arcs over the … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – The perils of Paulina

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Make that Re-re-reading it.   After finishing the final scene for my last post, I felt frustrated in that it felt like Paulina had become the main character all of a sudden, and I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: The real Defying Gravity

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #5, writer Jonathan Hickman continues tying things together and connecting all the dots with everything he’s set up. Recap: The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with around twenty … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Dr. StrangeReed

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #4, we have a meeting of the minds and a city under attack. Where were we? The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with close to twenty members, most … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 5 Scene 3

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Here’s where we get into why so many consider the a “problem play.” Act 5 scene 3 is the big dramatic ending, yet it’s ambiguous and it happens so fast.\ All the main characters come … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Very varied and various variants

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. FF #3 continues writer Jonathan Hickman’s sprawling epic take on the series, but is there such a thing as too epic? Recap: The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with a … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 5 Scene 2

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Re-reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! A ton of story happens in act 5 scene 2, but we don’t see it happen. You don’t want to know how many times I said, “Did I miss something?” when reading this scene. It’s … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: Kristoff instruction

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’re still getting used to the new status quo in FF #2, only for Dr. Doom to show up and complicate things already. Recap: Following the death of the Human Torch, the … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale – Act 5 Scene 1 (part 3)

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! This last part of act 5, scene 1 is only two pages in my Folger edition, but it’s loaded with tons of important character and plot information. One might conclude that these two pages are … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: For F’s sake

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Mac McEntire

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Except that Fantastic Four is over, and the series has now rebranded as FF #1. Oh, and Spider-Man is here. Maybe I should have led with that. We begin with scientists from … Continue reading →

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