With Batman v Superman: Orphan Fight 2016 coming out on Friday, I chose this week’s Six of the Best to talk about the best modern-era live-action Superman films.
SIX OF THE BEST… modern-era live-action Superman films
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SIX OF THE BEST… job interview questions
Recently at work I’ve been interviewing a lot of people — some for my team, and some for a colleague’s team. I have a list of questions prepared; some are super-boring (“tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker”) and have to be asked because otherwise HR will be grumpy. But others are more fun — and more insightful. Here are six of the best questions that I ask in every interview.
This week, I’m giving you SIX OF THE BEST… job interview questions.
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SIX OF THE BEST… things to give up to improve your health
Everything we do gives us a disease or prevents one; every type of exercise is the wrong type of exercise, except that it’s exercise. No matter what your weight is, it’s the wrong weight; no matter what your mental state is, it’s the wrong state.
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Tagged caffeine, canada dry, comfort, dieting, exercise, gatorade, gym, health, juice, meal planning, money, recipe for failure, soda, stress, sugar, sunk cost fallacy, time
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SIX OF THE WORST… things about Fuller House
With the sheer amount of online drama surrounding Netflix’s new Fuller House series, it’s only a matter of time until everyone sees at least one episode. I jumped on that grenade for you and watched the first half of the series (so far), and discovered six of the worst things about it.
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Tagged dave coulier, fuller house, jodie sweetins boobs, kimmy gibler, netflix, pacing, tv, tv-g
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“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Robert Bloch
Today on Tales to Terrify, I’m performing “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho. You know, the Hitchcock movie? Listen to it here: Tales To Terrify 214
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a review of The Clockwork Russian
If you haven’t yet picked up your copy of The Clockwork Russian and Other Stories, maybe these Amazon reviews will help you with your decision:
If there is a common theme, it’s one of the stories leaving you wanting more, imagining more, picturing the greater context.
A solid collection of short and very short stories, several of them featuring main characters who don’t fit the usual mould for protagonists: autistic, grossly overweight, dog, clone, villain.
His style is a fine example of well-rounded storytelling, thoughtful twists that bring you back to these stories after you’ve read them.
The best thing I can say about this collection is I found several of the characters and worlds deserving of longer works. Perhaps readers can hammer the author’s inbox until he concedes to making such novels. We’ll see.
I’m sure you’ll like the book too. Oh, and don’t think it’s short because Amazon says it’s only 147 pages. That’s just how their system reads the formatting. It’s 90,000 words – about the length of your average paperback novel.
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“Greetings from the Ninth Sector” by Rish Outfield
I’m performing the role of Sergeant Ramon Bradley in Greetings From The Ninth Sector by Rish Outfield.
Originally I was slated to play Corporal Otterson, but the production went in a different direction. Still, part of my performance can be heard in this promo for the episode.
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Tagged podcast, sci-fi, science fiction
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SIX OF THE BEST… “great” movies that I just didn’t get
With the Oscars being awarded this coming weekend, I thought I would talk a little about “great” movies. I try to make a point of watching movies that are generally considered great, in hopes that I’ll like them. I mean, everyone else is saying they’re great, right?
But here’s the thing: sometimes, the cultural zeitgeist is just wrong.
SIX OF THE BEST… things about older cars
While I’m by no means a car aficionado, I do enjoy looking at different types of cars to see what the interiors look like. I tell myself that it’s because I’m trying to decide what I want when I eventually do get a new vehicle, but mostly I think it’s just the design wannabe way in the back of my head that’s curious about how these things work, at least from a user interface perspective.
This week I’m talking about SIX OF THE BEST… things about older cars on The Nerdery Public. Basically it’s just an excuse to talk about old Mercedeses.
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Tagged backseat, car, cars, infotainment, mercedes, rx-7, steering wheel
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SIX OF THE BEST… pop-up twitter accounts
Pop-up Twitter accounts are viral self-aggrandizement: accounts that (probably) aren’t officially affiliated with the product, brand, news story, or other thing, but are still out there to get retweets and engagements in hopes that maybe the person behind them will someday release a book or a link to some sort of product or service.
From my latest column, SIX OF THE BEST… pop-up Twitter accounts, at Nerdery Public.
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SIX OF THE WORST… Two Dots obstacles
In my latest column, I take on SIX OF THE WORST… Two Dots obstacles. They might not be what you think.
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Tagged anchors, booster boxes, fire, game, lotuses, mobile game, nesting dots, one-sided bricks, slime, two dots, twodots, wilds
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SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to write what you know
People write what they want to be true, because that’s what they know: they’re stuck in boring or dysfunctional lives and they want out.
a review of “Stand Up”, in The Clockwork Russian
“Stand Up” is that good. I won’t spoil the premise. Roseman is proud of this one, he notes. I think he should be. If this piece isn’t expanded into a full-length book, it at least needs to be optioned by a production company into a film. If either boon does not befall it, then I’d call that a loss not just for genre fans, but anyone who enjoys a good story. It’s easily the best tale here, in my opinion, charging out the gates past a stable full of strong horses. That it hasn’t been published by someone is an indictment against the small press fiction markets. Read it.
My short-story “Stand Up” is exclusively available in The Clockwork Russian and Other Stories. Author and reviewer Jonathan C Gillespie thinks it’s one of the best stories in the collection. Here’s the entire review… or you could just buy the book. Just saying.
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SIX OF THE BEST… columns I wrote in 2015
I like to think I write enough columns each year to do a top-six list. So I made one.
SIX OF THE BEST… columns I wrote in 2015
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SIX OF THE BEST… Highlander films – The Nerdery Public
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Tagged endgame, films, highlander, movies, the final dimension, the quickening, the raven, the search for vengeance, the source
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SIX OF THE BEST… things I would change about Supergirl
Supergirl is a perfectly cromulent show, but nonetheless, here are six of the best things I would change about it.
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Tagged almost superman, dccu, dctu, love triangle, man of steel woman of kleenex, national city, supergirl, superman, television, tv
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“Untapped Potential” reviews The Clockwork Russian
The fine folks at the Untapped Potential podcast were kind enough to review The Clockwork Russian. Listen here, but the audio is NSFW so do so at an appropriate time.
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Tagged nsfw, podcast, review, reviews, the clockwork russian, untapped potential
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Josh Roseman: Writer, Voice Guy, Dad, Human 