All this weekend (a long one for our platoon) I had exactly nothing I wished to post about. Just couldn¡¯t muster a strong enough emotion to write about. I knew I could count on work to provide me with something but I just didn¡¯t count on it being as early as 0630!             Some of you out there know that our current First Sergeant ( SFC Manatee ) is not exa...

            All this weekend (a long one for our platoon) I had exactly nothing I wished to post about. Just couldn¡¯t muster a strong enough emotion to write about. I knew I could count on work to provide me with something but I just didn¡¯t count on it being as early as 0630!             Some of you out there know that our current First Sergeant ( SFC Manatee ) is not exa...

     An writers perspective on the behind the scenes "action" that went into The Revenge of the Sith. Excerpt :   He bursts into laughter. "Ohhhhh. Okay, right. The 'script,'" he chuckles, making little quotey gestures with his fingers. I interpret these to be an olive branch of friendship and once again try to shake one of his quote-making hands, with little success. " I've been trying to make the bottom two inches of Darth Vader's cape look wrinkled for...

     An writers perspective on the behind the scenes "action" that went into The Revenge of the Sith. Excerpt :   He bursts into laughter. "Ohhhhh. Okay, right. The 'script,'" he chuckles, making little quotey gestures with his fingers. I interpret these to be an olive branch of friendship and once again try to shake one of his quote-making hands, with little success. " I've been trying to make the bottom two inches of Darth Vader's cape look wrinkled for...

Can't get it on NetFlix but I highly recommend Peter Jackson's pre-tolkien work of "art" Meet the Feebles .   (Your mileage may vary and refunds for the damnation of your immortal soul not offered.)

Can't get it on NetFlix but I highly recommend Peter Jackson's pre-tolkien work of "art" Meet the Feebles .   (Your mileage may vary and refunds for the damnation of your immortal soul not offered.)

      With the recent discovery of "hobbitz" in New Zealand Peter Jackson simply can't be stopped! Fanboys rejoice with the first leaks from LOTR IV! (from pointlesswasteoftime.com ) Excerpt from a stolen script:   VOICEOVER And in the land of the Hobbits a new era has also come to pass. The legendary Bilbo Baggins, having spent a decade in the Grey Havens, finally succumbed to a mortal case of Hobbit Rot. Open on a banner, spread...

      With the recent discovery of "hobbitz" in New Zealand Peter Jackson simply can't be stopped! Fanboys rejoice with the first leaks from LOTR IV! (from pointlesswasteoftime.com ) Excerpt from a stolen script:   VOICEOVER And in the land of the Hobbits a new era has also come to pass. The legendary Bilbo Baggins, having spent a decade in the Grey Havens, finally succumbed to a mortal case of Hobbit Rot. Open on a banner, spread...

MICHAEL.RICHARD.TAYL Normal MICHAEL.RICHARD.TAYL 1 11 2004-09-01T20:01:00Z 2004-09-01T20:12:00Z 1 15th MI BN (AE) 1 1 9.6926               So the Pokekorean went on afood run to Jason’s Del itoday (mmmm like a fat laden bit of heaven that is…) and made the criticalmistake of leaving his car to walk the 5 yards from his car without putting onhis beret. A man in civilian clothes identified himself as a Sergeant Major andwanted ...

MICHAEL.RICHARD.TAYL Normal MICHAEL.RICHARD.TAYL 1 11 2004-09-01T20:01:00Z 2004-09-01T20:12:00Z 1 15th MI BN (AE) 1 1 9.6926               So the Pokekorean went on afood run to Jason’s Del itoday (mmmm like a fat laden bit of heaven that is…) and made the criticalmistake of leaving his car to walk the 5 yards from his car without putting onhis beret. A man in civilian clothes identified himself as a Sergeant Major andwanted ...

     One of my favorite activities is to use the Create-A-Player feature in console sports games to create sports versions of our platoon members. These are of course exaggerated versions of our MI pogue selves but it is amusing (to me at at least). Recently I started this with ESPN NFL 2K5 on a small scale. My preseason team consisted of: Pseudosoldier at center (6'3" 405 lbs very slow yet powerful), SGT Silverback as the Midle Linebacker (7'0" 313 lbs monster), SPC Egregiou...