I envy those people who had the spare 13 hours this weekend to power through Netflix and Kevin Spacey’s new House of Cards show. I’m over halfway through the Netflix original series, starring Spacey as a U.S. Congressman hellbent on obtaining political power and ruining those who cross him. Everything about the show is well…
I have a tip for all would-be invited guests of any event. When it comes to writing your short-form biography, use the Inverted Pyramid practice of writing so that your most important and relevant info makes it to the top. I’ve been prepping a lot of guest bios for this spring’s MTAC (Middle Tennessee Anime…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out! I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has its issues, which are more severe for some than for others. For my full opinion about the film, check out CineGeek where I will discuss it on our weekly webcast. This post’s purpose though is to discuss what has gotten filmmakers and…
(Notice: this is not a political post. It is inspired by current political issues, which are not the point here. I don’t like arguing politics online, and I don’t care what aisle or wing you’re on.) A few weeks ago, my local paper made a certain endorsement that proved to be somewhat controversial for some of…
On the latest CineGeek Webcast, we discussed Fox’s new effort for a Peanuts film. Peanuts, the comic strip by Charles Schulz, has inspired several memorable holiday specials, endless amounts of merchandise, insurance mascots, references in countless works, and so on. It’s also been running in newspapers every day since Schulz’s retirement and death, without a…
Marvel’s Thor is now streaming on Netflix, a movie streaming service that lets me watch a wide variety of film and television whenever I want on almost whatever I want. Without owning the physical media, I can watch Thor anytime on my television, laptop, iPad or phone. I found out about Thor on Netflix from a…
This is a problem I see in some amateur works, taking web copy (“copy” as in text or written content) and converting it into print without reformatting the text. The most obvious sign of this is randomly underlined text, which was previously hyperlinked when on the web. It’s a silly mistake, bringing undue focus to…
A local news broadcast* covering the recent London riots concentrated on the destruction of a Sony warehouse storing CDs for a European release of a local band. Sensible angle for Music City, USA (a.k.a. Nashville). The reporter made the point though that the rioters were using “social media” to organize and galvanize the riots. Just…
(Some may think I’m doing multiple posts about Twitter just to play with WordPress’s embedded Tweet feature.) I had a Twitter-spree of sorts this afternoon during a tornado warning at my workplace, a local newspaper company. Not much else to do when being shuffled down to a storm shelter and your work is interrupted. Although…
What should I do here that I don't do at @nikoscream? — Nicholas Qualls (@nicholasqualls) March 23, 2011 I recently registered a Twitter account under my real name (@nicholasqualls), mostly because it’s a good idea to own my own name (before any of those greedy mirror versions of myself get to it). But now I arrive…
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