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Happy 250th Birthday, America!
This occasion seemed to call for a wider and more colorful range of videos than I usually manage to pull together for the Fourth, so here goes:
Jane Austen Teasers and Trailers, 2026
This teaser for Netflix’s Pride & Prejudice came out a few months ago while I was buried in other stuff, and although I watched it at that point, I didn’t get around to post my reactions.
Continue reading “Jane Austen Teasers and Trailers, 2026”Video Thursday on Hiatus For Now
I’m in the process of figuring out Flux Klein 2b or whatever it’s called, plus LTX 2.3 and Shotcut while dealing with some stressful real life stuff. (Basically, volunteer treasurer trying to deal with an organization’s insurance and financial issues when everyone else involved are retirees on fixed incomes. Prayers requested on behalf of all of us.)
May 28, 1971: The Day The Warrior Died
On this day, 55 years ago, an Aero Commander 680 Super flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Martinsville, Virginia collided with the top of Brush Mountain (near Roanoke, Virginia) due to poor visibility. The pilot and five passengers were killed. One of them was Audie Murphy, war hero and former movie star.
I feel like Sabaton’s song about Audie is not their strongest work, but there’s a shortage of good clips of him on YouTube, so we’ll go with Sabaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBz7MX2bLcM
Happy Birthday to Vincent Price and Sir Christopher Lee
Here’s a couple of trailers to movies of theirs that I am partial to.
Happy Birthday to John Wayne and Peter Cushing
Since we’re coming up on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA, I feel obliged to feature this old standard, “America: Why I Love Her” from John Wayne.
For Peter Cushing, I actually have more ‘Merica friendly options than you would think likely from possibly the most English actor ever, including his cameo as the Captain of the Serapis in John Paul Jones, and his government-defying smuggler chief in Night Creatures. But given the origins of my recent released novel, Pride & Planetoids, I also feel obliged to bring you an old standard, namely the Destruction of Alderaan.
Pride & Planetoids now available in Kindle Unlimited.
I don’t know how I managed to not set that up when it was on pre-order but it’s fixed now. Sorry about that.
On this May the Fourth, Spot the References in Pride & Planetoids
I’ve previously told the story of how one man’s peculiar career choices led to me asking the question: “What if Darcy went around destroying planets?” and writing a whole book about the answer. But somewhere along the way, I realized that this gentleman was not the only actor to jump from Jane Austen to Star Wars (or vice versa) in a professional capacity. Reader, I set out to include nods to them all. This proved to be tricky because there were two Jane Austen adaptations and one Austen spinoff (The Other Bennet Sister) which went into production while I was writing Pride & Planetoids. Why are Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Catherine DeBourgh and what seems to be Frederick Wentworth’s dad all related in Pride & Planetoids? Blame a certain lady who played Sophie Wentworth Croft in the 1995 Persuasion, the title character’s foster mother in Andor, Lady Catherine in Netflix P&P, and Mrs. Jennings in S&S2026. Why is Mr. Bennet some kind of relative of Walter Elliot in my novel, and why does he make snarky remarks about a hypothetical “General Pride”? Blame the Scarlet Pimpernel, for taking roles in Rise of Skywalker, Persuasion 2022, and The Other Bennet Sister. Why is Mr. Collins mixed up in a digital impersonation plot, and somehow related to the Knightley family? And so on. If you know your Austen adaptations, and you know your Star Wars, you’ll probably spot the lawyer-friendly in-jokes. Check out Pride & Planetoids at Amazon today!
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