Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Project London/Hunter Prey
I have just finished watching the most FUN movie I have seen in a long while, titled Project London. This is a fan made movie, with CG effects done by various fans using a free…
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Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Lo Siento Señorita Smoak!
One of the beauties of Netflix is that you can take a show like “Arrow” and watch 2 seasons in a week and a half. That is unless you have a life, then it might…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Why Lifeforce Doesn’t Suck
The novel, The Space Vampires, which was published in 1976 and written by Colin Wilson, blew my mind. It, along with The Mind Parasites, were brilliantly conceived and executed. The prior was a unique twist…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Dusk and Dawn
When is a TV show better than a movie? I loved the Movie, From Dusk Till Dawn, real stick to your teeth vampires, complex plot, great actors, and the camera zoom out at the end—to…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Hitchcock and Bathing Suits
Pop culture. The ‘pop’ stands for ‘popular,’ just in case you forgot, and pretty much, if it is overly popular, I don’t care for it. Mediocrity is the driving force behind pop culture. It takes…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: The Up Side of Underwater
From September 1968 until April 1972 I was in the Navy, most of the time aboard a nuclear submarine. We had two crews, blue and gold, and would have the sub three months at a…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Trailers From Heaven
Here is an old guy’s Take on some upcoming films. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, I know little about the storyline, but it is billed as #VII, so this one should be at least interesting….
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: The True History if the World
[Note: This article does not, necessarily, represent the beliefs of Doc Palindrome, Gateworld Media, or any associated brand. I’m not saying it absolutely does not represent said beliefs, I’m just saying not necessarily. – The…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: When Comic Books Weren’t Cool
There was once a time when knowing the difference between Aquaman and the Sub-Mariner wasn’t considered useful information. Harken back with me to yesteryear. It was 1958 and I had the occasional comic book cross…
Dawn of the Proto-Nerd: Why I Love Monsters
When I was seven years old, my family lived in Rochester, New York on Webster Avenue, in an apartment above a dry-cleaners. My parents often had the daughter of a friend of theirs babysit myself…