In memoriam - 2013

Here is a tribute, in two parts, to some of the people who passed in 2013. With thank to MemoryMan1964.

(I turn the sound off on one of the videos and play them both at the same time.) 


Patti Page, Robin Sachs, Ned Wertimer, Reeva Steenkamp, Bonnie Franklin, Marian Wantola, Bruce Reynolds, Huell Howser, Conrad Bain, David R. Ellis, Anna Litvinova, Aaron Swartz, Pauline Phillip, Earl Weaver, Chrissie Amphlett, Donald Byrd, Magic Slim, Lou Myers, Chris Kelly, Deanna Durbin, Jonathan Winters, Michael Winner, Barbara Werle, Tony Lip, Richie Havens, DJ Ajax, Sammy Johns, Mindy McCready, Daniel Darc, Don Payne, Jack Shea, Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner, Asal Badiee, Alex Elisala, Dale Robertson, Milo O' Shea, Fran Warren, Barry Fey, Mike Gray, Christa Speck, Jason Molina, Kevin Gray, Johnny Lockwood, George Jones, and Ray Harryhausen.


August Schellenberg, Steve Forrest, Annette Funicello, Eileen Brennan, Stephenie McMillan, Lisa Robin Kelly, Dennis Farina, Karen Black, James Gandolfini, Cory Monteith, Lee Thompson Young, Jim Kelly, Dennis Burkley, Esther Williams, Elmore Leonard, Eydie Gormé, Jane Henson, Frank Bank, Gary David Weisberg, Henry Bromell, Bernadette Lafont, Allan Arbus, Elizabeth Alley, Jean Stapleton, Richard Griffiths, Henry Polic II, Jack Clement, Sid Bernstein, Ray Manzarek, J.J.Cale, Van Cliburn, Joey Covington, Julie Harris, Bryan Forbes, Cosmo Allegretti, Jeanne Cooper, Seamus Heaney, Joyce Brothers, Shain Gandee, Jiah Khan, Charles Lisanby, Tom Connors, Ron Weaver, Haji, Michael Hastings, Mary Thom, Douglas Engelbart, Cliff Morgan, Matt Osborne, Tommy Morrison, Deacon Jones, Dick Trickle, and Emile Griffith.

2013 Movie Posters

Here is one summary of the movie poster art offerings of 2013, this one a best-and-worst analysis from Vulture.

Here's the link to Vulture's Best and Worst Movie Posters of 2013.

2013: A new year, a fresh start

I wanted to start the new year by supporting an Adelaide filmmaking project, and this seemed like a good one. 

Nate and Steve Vs. Zombies is an interactive, animated web series, written by Levi George. It’s in found footage style like Rec (2007) or Cloverfield (2008), but the plot also unfolds like an Alternative Reality Game similar to Marble Hornets (2009) or LonelyGirl15 (2006).

Nate and Steve are trapped in a house that is surrounded by zombies, and infested with zombies. With your suggestions, they can purge the house of the zombie threat and survive until rescue arrives... If it ever arrives.

Yes, your suggestion might just save an animated life.

The Pozible fundraising campaign has only three more days to go, and—at the time of writing—the goal has been comfortably exceeded. Nonetheless, there's room for more. Every dollar will help with another episode.

Given Levi's obsession with the zombie apocalypse, and the fact he lives in my neighborhood, I'd feel better if he had plenty of work to keep him busy, so he's not out on the streets. Know what I mean? Help him out. Keep him working. I'd consider it a favor.

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