All entries written in April, 2007
April 30, 2007 at 9:01 am · Filed under On My Influences, Thoughts
Instead of discussing the revelation of Mark’s secret last Friday (I’ll get to that next update), I’ve decided to spend today talking about another one of my favorite TV shows: Heroes. It’s hard to believe that I was reluctant to watch the first episode just because I was already deeply engrossed in LOST, which is so complex and slowly-developing as a serial that it demands a considerable amount of head space. Now, I honestly believe Heroes is getting right a lot of what LOST is getting wrong…it’s faster at revealing its secrets, but never loses the suspense that comes with the unknown or the not-yet-understood. Plus, it a hell of a cool concept with some really great characters. Writing like this reminds me why I write, and inspires me to continue–I always feel creatively energized after watching Heroes.
Now, like that time I talked about LOST, I’m going to engage in some speculation about what’s going to happen on Heroes tonight, so the portion of the post below the cut may contain SPOILERS. You’ve been warned!
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April 25, 2007 at 9:21 am · Filed under Cast, Groups
Member profiles: Mark, Egan, Preston, Jenn, Damien, Nick.
April 23, 2007 at 9:02 am · Filed under Reviews, Thoughts
You’ve never played it, but now-defunct developer Segasoft’s Obsidian just may be my favorite computer game of all time. Want to know what it’s like in one sentence? Impossible, but I think the European commercial for the game makes a pretty good attempt: a man drops an egg on the floor, and then he shatters like crackling shell.
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April 18, 2007 at 9:00 am · Filed under Cast, Guys
April 14, 2007 at 11:07 am · Filed under About
schoolkids-sg.com (also sk-sg.com) exists primarily as a place where I can post my School Kids SG series of stories and anything related to them (character profiles, art, commentaries, etc). Besides that, though, it’s also my blog, and I’ve been known to post anything from personal anecdotes to reviews of games and movies I liked. I got into blogging back in the summer of 2003, after being inspired by several friends’ websites, and I vowed to someday combine my passion for School Kids SG with my desire to publish online regularly. So, here we are.
The site doesn’t have any sort of regular update schedule unless there’s a story currently running (i.e., getting posted chapter by chapter). In those cases, there will be a new chapter every Friday until the story is over…the chapters usually go up sometime in the morning. Otherwise, though, I’ve tried the professional veneer sort of approach to this site, with regularly-scheduled updates on certain days, and found that it sucks all the fun out of it. So this is definitely a site you’re should bookmark using the provided RSS feed (there’s also a feed for the comments). Or if you’re not into that, I’d say check back on weekends…I find I update more when I don’t have to work.
Anyway, thanks for coming and I hope you come back and read my stories often! Please leave me comments–I try to respond to everyone as much as I can, and I’m eager to get some discussion going!
April 13, 2007 at 9:07 am · Filed under Cast, Guys
April 11, 2007 at 8:47 am · Filed under Cast, Girls
April 10, 2007 at 6:21 pm · Filed under Announcements
These last few weeks since the launch of School Kids SG have been sort of an experiment, but now I think I’ve settled into a pretty comfortable Monday-Wednesday-Friday update schedule. I’ll make an official post later in the week and file it under the “About” menu, so everyone who visits this site will be able to quickly find out when they can expect new content.
Speaking of new content, this week is actually going to be a little light on the story side of things, with character profiles taking up both the Wednesday and Friday posts. However! There’s a reason for this: next week will feature two new chapters of The Gauntlet, chapters 9 and 10 to be precise, and these will lead into the first major turning point in the story the following week. Besides being the longest and fullest so far, chapter 11 will reveal one of the most important, central plot points of the entire School Kids SG series. I think things are going to get a lot more interesting once that’s out in the open. Plus, I’ll be able to post all sorts of thoughts and behind-the-scenes stuff I’ve been holding back on until now….
April 6, 2007 at 9:13 am · Filed under Reviews, Thoughts
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? More like Twentysomething…Mutant Ninja Turtles. At least, that’s the sense I got from the new computer-animated film TMNT, which visits with the turtles a year or two after their final battle with the Shredder. The four brothers—Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael—are still recognizable, and seeing them brings back fond memories for those of us who grew up on Ninja Turtles. The versions of them we see in this movie, however, are a little bit older, a little bit more world-weary, and most of all, a little bit less reliant upon one another for the purpose in their lives, now that their fighting days are over. In short, we get the sense that the Ninja Turtles have been through some serious changes since last we met, and the story of how the intervening period has affected their lives and relationships is the most interesting part of the movie. Maybe this is why the creators (among them executive producer Peter Laird, I noticed) left the title as simply TMNT, because either teenage or twentysomething really would fit. These turtles aren’t just for kids anymore.
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April 4, 2007 at 9:03 am · Filed under Cast, Guys
