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Author Archives: Bob Evans
My Sister-in-Law
Monday morning Juanita Evans, a member of my family for many many years passed away.
Juanita came to our family when she and my brother Lonny married. He was taken too soon from us in 1980 in a act of senseless gun violence and now they are reunited. My heart goes out to their two children, my nephew and niece, smart, talented people.
Juanita was a kind and loving woman of deep faith and though her life was one that witnessed many periods of darkness, she never lost her ability to smile or bring a smile to others. She will be missed.
I live on the other side of the continent from my family, and artifact of my time in the United States Navy, but distance does not diminish the bond of family. I hope she find peace, and love in the presence of the God she believed in.
Warner Instant Archive – Review
Anyone who knows me, who has read even a smattering of this blog, knows that I adore movies. In fact one of my earliest memories of life is from a movie that I was playing, I think, upon a drive-in screen. (No, I don’t know the title and that frustrates me.) So when I learned that Warner Brothers Studios had started a new streaming service based around their deep catalog I was excited. Luckily the service came with a free two week trial.
I started two weeks, minus a day, ago and I have watched several films by way of their streaming service. Today I canceled the service and even if I were fully employed I still would have canceled. Continue reading
For Buffy fans everywhere
A real test today
I needed to keep the car today as I had a job interview. After dropping my sweetie-wife off at her job I headed home, fighting enormous hunger pains. I’m trying to be very good about the zero sugar and very little carbs requirements of my new diet and the desire for a McMuffin was nearly irresistible. I decided that more normal breakfast,a very modest thing simply would not do, and stopped off at a supermarket to picked up a small steak so I could have steak and eggs for breakfast. (My favorite breakfast meal.)
I didn’t get the steak but I did get sausage and and made a nice sausage omelet. I managed to shop and get home with giving in to those carbs that were ever so testing my WILL save.
The interview went well and now the waiting begins. You would think that as an aspiring author I would be better at waiting, but I am not.
The State of the Bobster
So nothing political this time, and not a movie review, but just a rather generalized summation of my life. Continue reading
Not the Republican Party’s Best Week.
Here it is only Wednesday and already in my opinion the Republican Party is have a bad week. I would go so far as to say even their victories will turn out to be Pyrrhic ones. Continue reading
Movie Review: Much Ado About Nothing
Way back before the turn of the century, in that distant year of 1997, director James Cameron when asked what sort of project would he do next after producing the massively expensive and massively successful movie Titanic, he quipped to Larry king that he might 
do a small art film. He did not, his next directorial effort was the wildly expensive and wildly successful Avatar.
Joss Whedon however, after finishing principal photography on Marvel’s The Avengers, a fantastically expensive film, raised a miniscule amount of funds, contacted friends, and in just twelve days photographed his next film as a director, an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Continue reading
A thought that occurred to me while reading the New Testament.
A while back I was doing a re-read of the Christian bible. I didn’t quite make it through all the prophets there near the end of the Old Testament, but I got through the vast majority of the Old Testament. Continue reading
Movie Review:Man of Steel
So Sunday morning a friend and I headed to a local upscale movie theater and took in a showing of the newest superhero movie, Man of Steel. Warner Brothers, unhappy with the performance of the previous entry in the Superman franchise, Superman Returns, turned to Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan, and David Goyer to reboot the series.
This film has struck like a metro in the fandom with plenty of people loving it and seemingly equal numbers of people hating it. From what I can gather the people unhappy with the movie are general people who have a devotion to the character and cannon of the Superman mythos. I can empathize with their reaction, the latest entry into the Star Trek franchise to me feels like a cheap rip-off created to sell toys and tickets without any hear of soul of the original series. The fact that people feel the same way about a grittier and darker Superman interpretation is no surprise at all. Continue reading