“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.” Such is the opening poem to the epic Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (and later Brandon Sanderson). Amazon Prime is bringing the much beloved fantasy series to life this November, and they have...
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been on Mars for nine years now, has just taken a great, full-color panorama of the Gale crater. You can see a the panorama video released by JPL below, and it is even narrated to explain everything you are seeing. The resolution is stunning, and...
The latest trailer for the adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy has just come out. It looks pretty good, but I’m bummed that this series will be on Apple TV. I don’t have Apple TV and have no plan to get it. Even so, I’m sure it will be available...
Some very creative and talented people have recreated the lightsaber battle between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi, from A New Hope. Obviously, technical limitations in 1977 made an epic lightsaber duel impractical in the first Star Wars movie, but this scene brings the battle inline with what we saw of...
The “1 For All” D&D gamers web series by Deerstalker Production is always great, but this time they have truly outdone themselves with this hilarious D&D musical adventure. It is absolutely fantastic. If you haven’t seen any of their episodes before, it’s fine to watch this. Most of the episodes...
I know it’s a few years old, but I just stumbled upon the “J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin epic rap battle” and it is truly a gem (perhaps even an arkenstone?) among the many excellent epic rap battles that have been made. Go ahead and give...
I just recently stumbled upon the weird and wonderful musical mashups by two Italian brothers call the Melodicka Bros. They do covers for famous songs and bands, but with a twist: they play the song way out of genre. So, for example, they have a cyberpunk/synthwave cover of Toto’s “Africa.”...
NASA’s and JPL’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, has successfully touched down on the Red Planet! This rover is similar to the last rover, Curiosity (which is still operating by the way), but has significant advances over is predecessor. The main difference is that Perseverance is carrying an experimental Mars helicopter...
Disney just dumped an absolutely massive list of new shows coming soon to Disney+ streaming service, and it’s absolutely mind-blowing! Among many other shows, the super-stars of the announcement were those for Star Wars and the Marvel MCU. In the Marvel MCU there is WandaVision, Hawkeye, What If?, Loki, Ms....
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Brandon Sanderson, and I especially love the books of the Cosmere “super-epic” which includes the epic series of Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive (among others). The world-building, characters, and magic systems of these series are nothing less than astounding. But sometimes it’s...
