August #MicroStory Collection

Posted: September 26, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Flash Fiction, Writing
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Okay, this post is mostly just for me.

Some time ago, I was introduced to the concept of flash-fiction or microstories. For purposes of this post, a Micro Story is something that kind of tells the essence of a story on a tweet, or rather in 140 characters. Since I think it’s important to tag a Micro Story and not have friends and family think I’ve lost my mind, I tag any Micro Story tweet with the #MicroStory hashtag.

I tweet them, and through the magic of Twitter’s interaction with other social media, it gets cross-posted to Facebook. People seem to like them, and that makes me happy. But they’re hard to go back and read.

So…, I decided to collect a month’s worth of my #MicroStory tweets and post them to my blog. So now you know.

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Thoughts on the LOST Finale. Positive, Warm, Loving Thoughts.

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ABSTRACT: (My scientifically-minded friends have asked several times for a Too Long; Didn’t Read version of my posts, so…) People complain about the final season of Lost. I do not share their view. I will address the common complaints of the flash-sideways limbo (which was emotionally satisfying and a very Lost thing to do, thematically) and the perceived lack of answers (which I appreciated with the same faculty with which I appreciate something like poetry, for example.)

I love Lost. (The title might have given that away.)

Recently on the Jay and Jack Facebook group (you don’t know Jay and Jack? You should!) there was a discussion of TV shows that had either gone on too long, or had spawned a spin-off that had tarnished the reputation of its predecessor. Lost was mentioned, not in the spin-off category, but as a show that had gone on too long, and some criticism of the final season was opined.

I love Lost. I’m shameless about it. So what will now follow will be a totally biased and uncritical love letter to season six. I might as well be honest about it.

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Thoughts on the True Blood Finale (More or Less)

Posted: September 10, 2013 by patricksponaugle in TV
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Recently, the insightful hosts over at Geek Girl Soup had a recap of the most recent season of True Blood, HBO’s Vampire Drama. Because they’re great over at GGS they requested input from their listeners, and because they are awesome, they posted my email on their blog entry that accompanies their podcasts. (You should just go to http://www.geekgirlsoup.com and check them out. I really enjoy their TV coverage but particularly their big movie season reviews and spotlights.)
I decided that since I’d already gone to the trouble of sending a huge email to them about the season, I’d just post it here to for an easy blog entry. I’m lazy like that. And here it is:

In Defense of Ned Stark

Posted: September 4, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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(Warning, SPOILERS for the first book in a well known series that’s been out for a long while, and has been made into a cable television event.)

People love to bash on Lord Eddard “Ned” Stark. I get that. But I don’t have to stand around like Barristan Selmy and let it happen. Let me tell you a story…

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Once upon a time, there was a nobleman who lived with his loving family and loyal retainers in their ancestral seat of power. Things were good.

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The World’s End Hasn’t Ended (my review, I mean)

Posted: September 2, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review
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Well, this will be less of a review than a continuation of my discussing the movie. In a rambly fashion.

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Recently I posted a review of the Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright movie The World’s End. As I recall, I liked it and said all you people should go see it.

The End.

Oh! But I had more!

I wanted to bring up a few points about the movie that struck me, and that’s what I’m going to do. This will be spoilery, so be warned. It won’t be too long.

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The World’s End Movie Review

Posted: September 1, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review
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ImageI’m a fan of Simon Pegg, although I admit to have not seen much of his work. Yes, I’ve seen him as Scotty in the new interpretation of Star Trek, and in Mission Impossible, and I was delighted to have seen Shaun of the Dead, but I missed Hot Fuzz, Spaced, Paul, and even Band of Brothers.

But I do know Pegg was the visual inspiration for Wee Hughie in “The Boys.” (Film dudes, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, look it up.)

Anyway, when I saw that Simon Pegg was going to be in a movie with his frequent collaborator Nick Frost (who, again, I’ve only seen in Shaun of the Dead), along with Martin Freeman (who I really like), I was already on board.

Enough backstory about me.

Tonight my wife and I had a chance to go see The World’s End at our local theater, and we did not leave disappointed. We had a really great time.

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Stupid People Are Allowed to Vote? That’s Unpossible!

Posted: August 30, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Opinion
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Recently, one of my buddies on Facebook posted this status:

Whenever I see a post about “killing all the stupid people”, my first thought is, “we are all somebody’s ‘stupid people’.”

I got what he was getting at. Don’t be so smug, smarty-pants. After all, it’s natural for most people to consider themselves above average intelligence, and we know that’s mathematically impossible. (It is, right?)

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Elysium Review

Posted: August 29, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review
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This is the last of my Facebook movie reviews. Anything after this will be premiered here, I guess. I’m sure this will one day be considered an event in future blog historians, who might be writing a dissertation in all things Sponaugle.

This is a long review. I apologize in advance.

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Movie Review of ELYSIUM by Pat Sponaugle (this guy)

Recently, my wife and I managed to see Elysium, written and directed by Neil Blomkamp, the District 9 guy.

I really enjoyed District 9. In fact, I think I’ve only met one person who didn’t, and his reasoning behind why he didn’t like it was, in my opinion, full of asshattedness. If that is a word.

But, I’m here to talk about Elysium (although, as is my way, I’ll be talking about a lot of stuff too.)

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Enter the Dragon (Part Two)

Posted: August 29, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review
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Part Two of my Enter the Dragon review, originally posted on Facebook in July. This is the post-recap discussion where I talk, for perhaps too long, about my reactions to the movie.

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ENTER THE DRAGON Review, by Pat Sponaugle (that would be moi)

(PART TWO – In PART ONE, I basically wrote a (long) recap of the 1973 martial arts movie with a few observations and several promises of “I’ll Talk More About This Later.” Well, now it’s later.)

Okay, I owe the Internet some thoughts on Enter the Dragon as a movie, now that I’ve recapped it. I’ve already enthusiastically urged everyone to see it, so if I begin to criticize the movie, it’s from a position of crazy unconditional co-dependent Love.

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Enter the Dragon (Part One)

Posted: August 29, 2013 by patricksponaugle in Movie Review
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Once again, I’m pulling over a movie review that I made in Facebook this July (July of 2013).

My wife and daughter had gone up to Boston for a few days. This gave me a chance to watch a quality action movie, and I was moved to post observations. Like World War Z, it took two postings over two nights, below is the (mostly) unedited review from Facebook.

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