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scop (noun): Old English – bard, minstrel, storyteller
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4.5 Million Podcasts
Are you listening? Lots of folks are. According to Variety, last week’s installment of the New Heights podcast racked up 13 million views in just 24 hours. Of course, it helped that pop star Taylor Swift dropped by to join her buddy Travis Kelce to talk about her upcoming album. I’m sure brother Chris and…
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Classic Spinoffs
“You Know–For Kids!” Name the Classic A recent challenge in our Minute-Men: Execute and Run newsletter asked folks to identify the classic predecessors to the six books and films pictured above. Some of the contemporary spinoffs–like The Scarlet Letter Man and All for One–are fairly obvious. I figured the titles alone were enough to link…
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Iconic Book Illustrations
Worth 1,000 words. Artists have been illustrating the written word for ages, and in some instances, the illustrations have made such indelible impressions that they’ve become forever identified with the author’s work. With that in mind, we asked newsletter subscribers and social media followers to consider the above illustrations. The Challenge Can you name any…
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Minute-Men Preview at …
Plus Panels on AI, Horror, Writing … and more! This year at Confluence, I’ll be joining brother Christopher Connolly for an in-person preview of our forthcoming novel Minute-Men: Execute & Run, set for release this fall from Caezik Science Fiction & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor Books. The preview will take place 2:00 on…
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Mail-Order Monkeys?
Comic Book & Magazine Merch of the 60s Kids Today Are Missing Out Sure, they have tablets, iPhones, TikTok, and YouTube. They can stream anything they want when they want. They can even get a bot to do their homework. But X-ray vision? Asiatic insects? Live monkeys? Nope, nope, and double nope! It was different…
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Deleted Movie Scenes
Kill your darlings … spare the dog. In a recent installment of The Town, podcaster Matthew Belloni shares a list of deleted or added scenes that would have dramatically changed some popular films. In Pretty in Pink, Molly Ringwald originally ended up with John Cryer, not Andrew McCarthy. Loki initially died in Thor: The Dark…