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20 Jul

Enthusiastic reviews for Toby Wey

More critic praise for The Adventures of Toby Wey, my romantic coming-of-age adventure set in pre-Victorian England, featuring Charles Dickens and the birth of the railways. “Loved it! The wonderfully told story of Toby Wey, who from humble origins has an adventurous, character-filled life, surviving by living on his wits. Always entertaining and full of adventure, this is just the sort of story that I would want my boy to read. Highly enjoyable.” Rachel Deeming, Reedsy Discovery * “Reminiscent of Huck Finn, The Adventures of Toby Wey is an exceptional read … a story...

10:06 / Blog Post / Books
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11 Jul

Small Soldiers turn 24

Congratulating great director Joe Dante on the 24th anniversary of "Small Soldiers", in which he turned my first-produced movie into something wonderful. Thank you Joe! And thank you Steven Spielberg, for bringing a great cast and director together to make a newcomer's Hollywood dream come to life. ...

12:40 / Blog Post / Film & TV / Pop Culture
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02 Jul

History of the World in Soundtrack Albums 69-30BC

Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt and its last active ruler from 51 to 30 BC. As Wikipedia reports, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great After her death, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. Her native language was Greek, bug she was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn Egyptian. When her father died in 51 BC, Cleopatra reigned jointly with her brother Ptolemy XIII, but a falling-out between them led to open civil war .After...

21:21 / Blog Post
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30 Jun

History in Soundtrack Albums Part 7: 73BC

As Wikipedia reports, Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. He came from Thrace, present day south-western Bulgaria, and was trained at the gladiatorial school near Capua as a heavyweight gladiator called a murmillo. These fighters carried a large oblong shield and used a sword with a broad, straight blade. In 73 BC, Spartacus led 20 slaves in a daring escape, using kitchen utensils and seizing several wagons of gladiatorial weapons and armour. They defeated...

11:08 / Blog Post
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19 May

The New Party Night

According to The Times, WFH has made Wednesday evenings the new party night. "Wednesday is the new Thursday, and Thursday the new Friday, say bar owners." But my question is - What about Monday? Can it become the new Sunday? This is going to get difficult. #WFH ...

09:09 / Blog Post
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