Monday, March 18, 2024

Onward, To The Breach

"Onward, to the Breach," is a little flash fiction piece that I wrote years ago and ran on an early episode of the Anklecast. It basically comes from a line in a Sting song called "When the Angels Fall." Sting sings, "But perhaps the dream is dreaming us, Soaring with the seagulls. But perhaps the dream is dreaming us, Astride the backs of eagles." I took that line and ran with it, crafting a humdrum world of today, and then had the dreamer wake from that reality to return to his own. I've already given it all away, so there's no real reason to read it, but if you'd still like to, head over to Amazon and pick up your copy. It's super short, so I put it up for the extra low, low price of $0.99.

Young Jedi Chronicles

I think it's these toys are from a new show on Disney+ called "Young Jedi Chronicles." I haven't watched it, but what I gather is that it's Star Wars for toddlers...pre-schoolers. It's Teletubby Star Wars, I think.

Anyway, I found these ships at Ross and bought one of each.

I thought it might be possible to adapt them for use with 3.75-inch Vintage Collection figures. They'll pretty certainly require some modification. But they're not far from the right size. The cockpit is a little roomy, but not way too big or too small.

I could probably just put some plastic in on either side of the cockpit and it would look fine. Might need to do a little more than that, though, because they look a little babyish beyond that. Particularly those guns. Maybe drilling out the front of them to give them barrels and adding some greebles here and there would be enough.

Nothing could be done for the figures though. Is that thing supposed to be a blue ewok? Or something completely new?

I tossed those things out as soon as I got home.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

From Another World

"From Another World," is a story that Rish and I wrote together...except we did it separately. Basically, Rish came up with a tale and made it into an Audiodrama. We performed that Audiodrama on the show with Bryan Lincoln and put it out. I told Rish that it was good enough that he should make a prose version of it that he could sell on Amazon. He didn't seem to interested in putting in the work it would require to take the story he'd already sweated over and make something else of it. So, since I was in the process of writing every day, I decided that I would do the prose part of the story for him. I don't think, however, that he's ever published it himself on Amazon, so up until now, it has been all for naught. But, I've got it published now, and you can get a copy of it and read if you're interested. Maybe Rish will even read this post, and realize that the story and the cover are ready to go, so he could publish it on his Amazon as well, and you could buy it from him instead. He deserves it more, after all.

Another Fortniter

I was at Ross the other day when I saw this funky little package of a Fortnite guy.

I've never seen any package like it. It's so small. It kind of looks like it must have been the driver of a vehicle, so it's just in a bubble that gets displayed next to the vehicle it came with...except it isn't. It's a completely self-contained product. It's weird, I looked it up online, and they didn't have any pictures of it in this packaging anywhere either, so I don't know.

What I do know is that this guy would look pretty good with the folks on Ankletown Station, so I made sure to grab him.

The jacket is cool, but it comes off, and it looks fine without it too, so I could swap it out to another character to give them a different look.

I've noticed that Fortnite figures often look like they're supposed to be their own version of some character from a different property. This guy looks so much like Snake Eyes from GI Joe that I can only assume that's what he's supposed to be. Although they have another guy in Fortnite whose name is Eight Ball, which seems like he also must be a ripoff of Snake Eyes, so who knows?

What I do know is that I'm irritated that I'm old enough that my eyes are so bad that I can't manage to get the weapons into the figure's hands without putting on my glasses.

But I can't see for crap long distance with them on, so I have to have them handy, but can't wear them all the time. Never get old, folks. It just ain't worth it.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Door Approach

Okay, it's time for today's newly published story. This time, we've got "Door Approach." It's a story about some vampires masquerading as Mormon missionaries in Central America to get that all-important invite into the home. It's relatively new, at least for me...I wrote it in 2017, so it's come since I've really gotten into the process of writing every day, which created a whole new me...but not so new that nobody's heard it. I ran it on the Anklecast back in 2022. So, you're probably already familiar with it, and don't need to buy it. If you're not, however, you can buy it for the low, low price of $2.99 over on Amazon.

Tusken Raider and Massiff

I saw a post on Instagram where a guy said he was seeing some Star Wars Vintage Collection figures going on clearance at Target. I checked in early this week, and I found the Tusken Raider and Massif set on clearance, but they were still up at a price that was about double what I was willing to pay. However, I checked back on Sunday, and now the price had been halved again. It was down to only $8. I was willing to pay that, so I grabbed one.

It's a pretty good variation of a Tusken Raider, though it's kind of weird to see them wearing black instead of their sand colored outfits from the Star Wars movie. I guess they should have some different colors, right?

Also, the massiff is cool It's a funky and fun little alien dog. I have a couple of those now. Two figures for $8 is a pretty good deal, particularly when we're talking Vintage Collection which is priced so high these days that I can't imagine they'll ever sell anything at full-price.

Friday, March 15, 2024

One Million Miles

I'm still churning through my stories, getting them all published as quickly as I can. Today we have "One Million Miles." That is a very short story that I wrote and shared on the Anklecast years ago. It's a flash fiction piece that is only about a thousand words in total, and it is basically a pun turned into a story, but I still like it, so I put it out. I did at least charge less for it. This on is on Amazon for the low, low, low price of $0.99. So, it's basically free, right?