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30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 4: Drywall gets in your eyes (30:30-31:00)

I think I’m going to alter the format here just a bit — rather than giving specific time markers I’m going to mark the beginning of each segment with the times and leave it there.  This section is 30:30 – 31:00. This is another favored sequence, with two cinematically beautiful moments. John is waiting at […]

30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 3: Grappling

We just got through thirty very gun heavy seconds of the first fight in John Wick. Now we move onto a smaller, more personal altercation with both grappling and wrestling. 30:00 on the nose and we begin with another moment I could parse better watching it back a few dozen times. John has just reloaded […]

30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 2: Baba Yaga

Welcome back to 30 Seconds of Wick. We’re headed back to the beginning, to the first real fight of the movie. I call this fight the Siege of Castle Wick. It’s gun heavy but still very interesting for the (at the time) unusual way they integrated the gun work into the hand to hand combat. […]

30 Seconds of Wick Chapter 1 : Perkins Takes A Bite

Welcome to the first installment of Thirty Seconds of Wick — the blog breakdown of each thirty seconds of the fight scenes in the movie John Wick (2014) I’m beginning not at the beginning (the fight in John’s house) but a little over mid-way through the movie and a little more than mid-way through my […]

Oh, Captain ….

TW: Suicide  Folks this one is a little harrowing. It was hard to write and I find it hard to reread. I apologize for any typos or format errors. I couldn’t go over it that many times.  I was a lonely child in a house full of living things. Seven siblings, two parents, family friends, […]

The Loss Of Fear

(Reblogged from the WarpWorld blog Aug 2016 — http://www.warpworld.ca/on-loss-loss-of-fear/) I have been afraid my whole life. Afraid of sharks in the bathtub. Afraid elevator doors would close unexpectedly, crushing me to death. I was afraid that having two Christmas tress meant we would get carpenter ants in the house. I was–and still am–mocked by my […]

Choices, the damage there caused

​​​​​I lie awake at night and feel guilty about my pain. I know a number of people who suffer chronic, debilitating illness. Who live every day as an exercise in pain management, in negotiating with the world to get simple tasks done. I’m not one of them. I’m in chronic pain…and I did it to […]

The MCU: Resembling the Real World

(I swear, my next post will not be about comic books. Maybe.) “Those arguing that BLACK PANTHER is the first MCU movie to A) be about something and B) take place in something resembling the real world are enabling cultural amnesia…” So, the above tweet thread popped into my time line the other day (I […]

Mockingbird and Hawkeye, Part 1

Mockingbird and Hawkeye: A love letter to love Super heros hate marriage. Or at least the men who run the major superhero comics hate it. Joe Quesada famously obliterated Spiderman’s charming, logically consistent marriage to Mary-Jane (though the current “Renew Your Vows” series may correct that mistake). DC lost the award winning Batwoman creative team […]