Archive for the “Entertainment” category

Howard the Duck

by kartooner on July 8, 2009

George Lucas has cre­ated some won­der­ful movies and is unde­ni­ably a vision­ary film­maker, story-teller and influ­ence in the film indus­try. Recently, evi­dence of this has sur­faced in the form of a PDF out­lin­ing the “Raiders” story con­fer­ence. He’s also respon­si­ble for some (…)

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Habitat

by kartooner on February 12, 2009

Ear­lier this week I picked up the book Rogue Lead­ers: The Story of Lucasarts by Rob Smith. There’s an inter­est­ing his­tory that cap­ti­vated me from the get-go, pri­mar­ily because I’m a part of this fas­ci­nat­ing lin­eage. Lucasarts & Quan­tum Link Lucasarts (then called (…)

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The Boy Who Lived

by kartooner on August 18, 2007

It was ten years ago when I first saw Harry Pot­ter and the Sorcerer’s Stone sit­ting on the shelf at Bor­ders. I dis­tinctly remem­ber the front cover illus­tra­tion, how col­or­ful it looked from afar and think­ing how geeky the boy on (…)

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Carry the Plank

by kartooner on June 23, 2007

Dri­ving home tonight after a deli­cious meal, my daugh­ter, spon­ta­neous as ever, looks up at me and in her best pirate expres­sion growls; “Arghh! I’m a pirate!”. What fol­lowed was a con­ver­sa­tion between a three-year-old pirate, her par­rot Steve and me, her “Pirate Daddy”. (…)

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