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I just realized that the RSS feeds for KJToo.com are broken. This may or may not have happened when I installed the “Recent Comments” plug-in recently. I’ll have to look into it.

Posted September 30, 2005 Comments(4)

The first time I saw an advance screening (or “sneak preview,” if you will) of a movie was The Adventures of Pluto Nash, starring Eddie Murphy. Now, I’m pretty sure that the idea of the sneak preview is to generate “buzz” about a movie; get the old word-of-mouth machine in motion. Well, Pluto Nash was godawful. At the end of the movie I felt that the theater owed me eight bucks and a cup of coffee. I told pretty much anyone with ears that they were best to avoid Pluto Nash. Probably not the buzz the distributor had in mind.

Last night’s viewing of Serenity was the second advance screening I’ve attended. The fact that it was at the same theater (and quite probably the same auditorium) where I’d seen Pluto Nash didn’t occur to me until right before the movie started, but proved to be nothing resembling an ill omen. Simply put, Serenity was a lot of fun.

I don’t think that there are any spoilers below, but just in case…
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Posted September 28, 2005 Comments(0)

Well, in about two and a half hours, actually. My phone rang a little while ago and it was a guy I game with on occasion offering me a free ticket to a screening of Serenity tonight. As the kids say, “Woot!”

Posted September 27, 2005 Comments(2)

I feel a bit remiss for failing to mention this before.

Goodman Games presents Scavenger Hunt, a carrion-collecting card game for 2-6 players.

Game design by Gunnar Hultgren (AKA Miscellaneous G™).
Art by Brendon and Brian Fraim.

I had the pleasure of being introduced to Scavenger Hunt several months ago, when it existed only on index cards. Though I haven’t picked up my own copy yet (Comic Heaven was sold out last week), I’ve seen the deck that Miscellaneous G™ used to run demos down at GenCon last month and it looks incredible. The art is fantastic and funny, the card layout is sharp, and I know from experience that the gameplay is a lot of fun.

Posted September 27, 2005 Comments(0)

I’m not sure what the problem is, but the availability of KJToo.com over the past couple of days has been a bit flaky. I don’t remember my midPhase customer service credentials off the top of my head, so I can’t log a service ticket from work, but I’ll create one when I get home tonight. I can’t complain too much about midPhase as they are incredibly inexpensive, but it would be nice to get some notice when they’re going to be messing with the server on which KJToo.com resides.

Posted September 27, 2005 Comments(0)