Imagine a government agency whose job it is to protect the world from disruptive technology and you have the basic premise of Daniel Suarez’s fourth novel, Influx. What started out as a good idea in the 1940’s when there were new radical ideals like nuclear power and rockets has evolved into an agency that resembles Men in Black 65 years later.…
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The trailer for the new Godzilla movie is out. We still are not getting a good view of the big guy. This is good. They are saving the reveal for the theater. We get to see more than we did in the teaser but we still have not gotten to see his classic profile.…
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Below are the videos taken at Crowd Pleasers 2014 Dance Competition. These were taken via a single handheld camera.
Jumper is the first of a series of novels by Steven Gould about a boy who finds out that he can teleport to any place that he’s previously been to. It is at its core a super hero origin story. The 2008 movie of the same name borrows the characters and the basic premise but leaves out the majority of the plot and character development.…
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When I first heard about the Alfonso Cuarón movie
Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, and the voice of Ed Harris, it sounded like a space version of
Open Water and I wasn’t interested. I heard that it was stunning to see on the big screen or in iMax format but I managed to resist.…
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You may not have heard of Andy Weir. He has no Wikipedia page and he only has the one book listed on Amazon. His web site galactanet.com looks like a 1996 MySpace page. What he does have is the best hard science book about Mars I have ever read.…
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Just saw the RoboCop remake. Thoughts? Well, it didn’t suck (…as bad as Total Recall). But unfortunately it wasn’t great either.
The opening scenes of the
Pat Novak show staring Samuel L. Jackson were supposed to evoke the same over-the-top media as we saw in the original.…
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The 1987 RoboCop has some endearing parts that have made it so memorable. The movie actually holds up pretty well after 27 years. It takes place in an ambiguous near future where artificial hearts are advertised on TV and there’s violence in Mexico.…
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I’ve seen the 1951 Rudolph Maté movie adaptation of
When Worlds Collide. It is near the top of classic 1950’s Science Fiction movies. I never gave its source material much thought. The movie won an Oscar that year for its special effects which involved the use of miniatures to convey the large scale of the story.…
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The Legacy Silver Spurs Officers perform their dance that they will take to competition this summer at the basketball game halftime. The song is If I Were A Boy by Beyoncé.
Legacy Silver Spurs performing a Kick Routine at the halftime of the Red Oak Hawks basketball game
Usually Texas A&M University’s annual bonfire is held in November just before the t.u. football game. Since the tragedy in 1999 and the move to the SEC, things have changed. This year the weather forced a delay to January. Student Bonfire now a completely separate event without official University sanction.…
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Mansfield Legacy High School Silver Spurs Drill Team performance of Hijack at Broncos vs Lake Ridge Basketball Game halftime. Choreography by Mikey Trasoras
