The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

This one is...



Previously (Tuesday/Wednesday)...



...Sunday-ish...



...and last Friday...



We are now at NINETY-SEVEN videos. Next week, at this time, it SHOULD be the magic 100!

First, yesterday's video offering...



Also, a bit of a quandry - who the hell do I vote for now? One thing is certain - it won't be the Tories, the current bunch, after they put in place MORE rules to stick the knife into the unemployed. Sign on at the Job Centre EVERY DAY? Do they get travel expenses (I suspect not)? Headline-grabbing politicians just LOVE touting tales of big TVs and fancy holidays ALL paid for from taxpayers' money, and £1000 a week "dole cheques" - anything to get voters baying for blood... all while there are STILL individuals in this country who can get their rich accountants to fiddle the figures, and get them off paying ANYTHING.

And if it's true that Scotland's "First Minister" has been speaking in glowing terms about Russia's "dear leader" Putin, then Captain SNP can go screw himself, too...

Okay, I admit it - I have been pretty piss-poor at posting entries recently. There's been a bunch of crap screwing with my routine, and I will try to sort that out, over the Easter weekend.

For now, there's more from the Ace Of Thorns channel. Tuesday's video...



...and tonight's...



I'm also due readers another movie review - Amazing Spider-Man 2, from Wednesday. Short version: better than the first offering from the "reboot", worthy of a solid 8/10.

I always seem to be a day behind with these...



Elsewhat... This weekend, I managed to start and complete a series of new videos, involving the game Long Live The Queen. It may seem a bit "girly", but it's actually a pretty complex RPG-cum-Fighting Fantasy arrangement, as I hope the videos will show...

Also, holy crap, are snippets of phone footage and photos pretty much pouring from the various sets for AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON - we actually managed to see two "new" characters in those images BEFORE their on-screen debut in the mid-title sequence for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, a movie that does seem to have pleased the great majority of those going to see it.

And rightly so!

Yesterday... The third of FIFTY (episodes of ...EDGE OF CHAOS that is)...



- complete with nifty customer thumbnail, of which I still have about forty-five to do. Things are genuinely looking more "professional" now - although I 1) need to finish my DUNGEON MASTER series, and 2) find more games to play - I do have Long Live The Queen, which should be fun, and there's a Game Of Thrones game coming sometime soon, too...

Talking of which... Damn, that's FOUR books read now, and there's not one moment where you feel even remotely disappointed, even when long-standing characters get it in the neck... or the gut... I think you get the general idea. Messy - and it really does seem as though NO-ONE is truly safe. Impressive.

How about "THIRTY-SIX episodes and rising"...? I'm keeping them generally to 15 minutes or so, but Episode Thirty-Seven just HAS to be a bonus-length (dare I say "feature-length"?) episode.

Guess this season is going to run about as long as the first...

I've been hard at work churning out more episodes for Stargazer Season 2, following on from what was left of my weekend, and Chapter 28 is just now rendering. I'd been thinking I'd be able to round things off at thirty chapters, but it's looking to end up at more like thirty-five, by my reckoning. I'm doing my very best to keep videos around the 15 minute mark, and that sometimes means cliff-hangers...

Meanwhile... Arrrrgh! Everyone on YouTube is doing South Park: The Stick Of Truth play-throughs! This is something I really want to play, but right now, I'm not shelling out £40. Nope, not happening.

It has been a good weekend. Good in that i have posted the first of the new Stargazer Project videos:-



...and there's another FOURTEEN ready to roll.

Niiiiice.

Guess it's time to stop tripping over myself, and get some new videos put together. I have the footage for ...Stargazer Season 2, so I just need to set aside the uninterrupted time to get the editing and other post-production done. The weekend, I'm thinking - probably kicking off on Friday night...

Stay tuned to see how close to reality THAT plan is!

A big day for incoming post - that's a big bit of Christmas shopping done... and I am now in possession of a pretty sweeeet new pair of boots, in prefect timing for Patent Saturday. Excellent!

Yeah, it's been another thin week on the blogging front, but The Stargazer Project - Season 2: The Edge Of Chaos has been getting, and holding, the majority of my attention. It doesn't help that the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special is TOMORROW, and that next week - and the week following - will be dominated by "PatSat"...

Excellent viewing last night: An Adventure In Space And Time, dramatising the origins of the phenomenon that has been - and, I am certain, continue to be - Doctor Who.

What's that? A Gravity review? Oh crap, I have rather dropped that ball...

...ok, a quick one: A good reality-based space disaster movie, that makes the silence of space a character in its own right. Somehow, I was expecting MORE, such as 3D that would genuinely dazzle, but that was not to be. Movie Of The Year? Naaah - a solid 8/10, but all-out space opera (Star Trek Into Darkness!) wins out in that respect.

Look for the tie-in short movie that's going around, which provides an insight into the other end of a conversation in the main movie. It's very effective.

There. Not my best, but it's that or nothing!