I might not be quite as into Star Wars as everyone else, but I hope that all of my hard-core SW fan friends have a BLAST with the new movie. Your ardent fandom affords me a really interesting experience — it lets me feel as though I am a mainstream guy, while everyone else is a nerd!!
You guys waited a long time for this — especially if you weren’t thrilled with the prequels. I hope this trip into your favorite fictional universe is frikkin’ awesome!
Children today cannot truly comprehend the meaning of the term “Christmas special.” Netflix, Hulu and Youtube (not to mention pirated movie sites) now make “specials” available at leisure. There was a time, kids, when the program you see below was an event unto itself. It aired once a year. If you missed it, then you missed it. (I never did.)
I remember loving most of this, and being allowed a bowl of either chocolate or coffee ice cream from the box in the freezer. (Did anybody else grow up with coffee ice cream?)
You know what would be a very marketable idea? Making a toy line that reproduces the “Misfit Toys.” People would buy those.
That’s so stupid it sounds like a joke.
Actually … it WAS a joke, dating all the way back to 1997, in Kevin Smith’s outstanding “Chasing Amy.” (For those who haven’t seen Smith’s comedy, the black character and the two white characters are all friends, and are in on the staged “shooting” together. It’s a publicity stunt to sell comic books.)
Hey, if you haven’t seen it, “Chasing Amy” is a fantastic movie. It’s one of my all-time favorites, and I think it far better captured “Generation X” than “Clerks” (1994) did.
Then consider giving them “Ujaali,” Laura Enright’s sequel novel to her widely praised “To Touch the Sun.”
“Ujaali” is the second book in Laura’s “Chicago Vampire Series,” and it’s been eagerly awaited ever since the inaugural book won fans over to the story of Narain Khan, the vampire chef. Take a look at the uniformly glowing reader reviews for both “Ujaali” and “To Touch the Sun.” Why not make a gift of both books?
“To Touch The Sun” at Amazon.com
And check out the book trailer for “Ujaali” below!
I’m happy to say that Dead Snakes tonight featured my latest poem, “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”
If you haven’t read read it, and would like to, then click here:
“As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”
Thanks, Dead Snakes!
Then please consider surprising them with “The Pustoy,” an outstanding book of poetry by Philippe Blenkiron. It’s a science fiction and political epic in poetry format, describing future Britain’s rule by a genocidal dictator who scapegoats an underclass to facilitate his rise to power. It’s quite dark, and I quite loved it. Click the link below to read my review last year:
A frightening future, skillfully envisioned — God help “The Pustoy.”
“The Pustoy” is also easy to purchase in either paperback or Kindle format. You can find it at Amazon right here:
I suggest that this would make an excellent gift for lovers of books like George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-four” or Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” And its format in verse would make it an even more interesting companion book.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 