It’s Tolkien Reading Day. Brian Sibley, a friend of the blog, will do a live reading of “The Black Gate Opens” between 11-11:30 AM ET.
https://youtu.be/ylKhee_3z-M
Brian is rightly proud of his work on the 1981 unabridged BBC dramatization of The Lord of the Rings. I have the CD box set. It was the first time that the late Ian Holm played a Tolkien character.
Waiting for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, combined with cabin fever, is stressing me out.
Finding purpose and meaning, living in a post-pandemic hellscape.
Good ol’ Denro pointed out this new video on YouTube’s Star Wars channel. During the summer of 1980, when I went to the movies to see something, I often ended up seeing The Empire Strikes Back instead.
There was also plenty of “snow” on the set of that other 1980 movie with Carrie Fisher, The Blues Brothers.
I’m feeling faint from the after-effects of time travel, after revisiting this video from TEN YEARS AGO!
As a mere lad attending the 1971 Worldcon in Boston, I saw this experimental short film by the exceptionally talented artist Richard Corben, best known for his work in Heavy Metal. According to Corben’s wife, he died on December 2, age 80, following heart surgery.
