Star Trek: The Next Generation #2 The Peacekeepers
April 26, 2010 · Book / Movie Reviews, Star Trek · 1 Comment 

The Peacekeepers is the second Next Generation book, written by Gene DeWeese, and feels much more likeĀ  a run-of-the-mill episode than the previous one Ghost Ship. We occasionally dip in and out of characters heads, but never for extended periods….

Burnt Down House haikyo
April 22, 2010 · Burned, Haikyo, Residential, Saitama · 5 Comments 

When I went on the wedding haikyo shoot a few weeks back we stumbled upon this burnt down house. Normally I`d bypass it in favor of the target- in this case we were looking for the Hume factory, but that…

Star Trek: The Next Generation #1 Ghost Ship
April 21, 2010 · Book / Movie Reviews, Star Trek · 1 Comment 

They started releasing Star Trek Next Generation books almost simultaneously with the series on TV. The first book was a novelization of the pilot- `Encounter at Farpoint`. The second, listed as #1 on a roster that has now grown to…

The Ruins of Warcraft
April 20, 2010 · Fantasy Ruins, Game Ruins, World Ruins · 9 Comments 

The online fantasy game World of Warcraft is awash with ruins. Half of the in-game quests involve pilfering buried treasure from cities razed by the Scourge, temples leveled by the Lich King, and craters where force field-encapsulated cities once lay….

Untitled Haikyo Book
April 19, 2010 · Haikyo · 5 Comments 

Another book I’ve put together and recently sent out to select agents is my haikyo book. I have sent it out before, but then only to a limited spread of Japan-based publishers. This time I went more international. Already I…

The Dawn Cycle 1. The Rise of the Truth
April 16, 2010 · Jabbler's Mons, Stories · 2 Comments 

I`ve written a book. The working title is The Rise of The Truth, and it`s the first book of The Dawn Cycle, a saga of 5 fantasy books following Dawn on his quest to take care of business. In the…

Haikyo Pachinko Hall
April 15, 2010 · Entertainment, Haikyo, Saitama · 5 Comments 

Last week`s haikyo wedding shoot at the Volcano Museum was supposed to only be the first of two locations. We scarpered out of there at double-time to make it to the Hume Cement Factory in Saitama, a place I visited…

Volcano Museum 4. Haikyo Wedding
April 12, 2010 · Gunma, Haikyo, Models, Museums · 21 Comments 

I`ve been thinking for a long time about shooting models in a haikyo. I bought a flash (SB-600), a flash-stand, and even took a lesson on flash, but still the thinking remained thinking and not shooting. I had no desire…

`Ender in Exile` review
April 10, 2010 · Book / Movie Reviews · 4 Comments 

Orson Scott Card is one of the most hit-or-miss authors I know of. When he`s good, in books like Ender`s Game, Ender`s Shadow, the early Alvin Maker books, he`s truly awesome, a storyteller to be reckoned with who has great…

Hiroshima A-bomb dome

At 8:15 on August 6 1945 the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare detonated over Hiroshima, obliterating the city within a 1.5 mile radius and killing outright some 80,000 people, with around another 70,000 dying of radiation and…

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