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Author: Mark Boszko
Mark is easily distracted and seems not to require sleep. However, this is an illusion. He is mortal, like you. Perhaps doubly so. He makes videos and a little bit of art and design. He also watches way too many movies and jokes around on Twitter.
The Diamond Invention
The Diamond Invention: How diamonds went from common rocks to a multi-billion dollar business controlled by the De Beers cartel. Oh… and diamonds aren’t forever.
The Problem With Music
The Problem With Music: What’s wrong with today’s music business.
Sleepy Hollow
Based on the the short story by Washington Irving, this Tim Burton film makes Ichabod Crane into a bumbling detective from New York, sent to investigate the murders of the the Headless Horseman. Depp’s skittish charm in this role brings a lot of humor to what is otherwise a very dark film, occasionally brightened by…
Dead Man
The first movie I’ve caught of the Johnny Depp series the local AFI theatre is presenting, Depp here plays William Blake. No, not that William Blake, though a reluctantly helpful native american he meets seems to think so. Because of a chance encounter involving a gun, a price is put on his head. Men, both…
Pentel EnerGel
Special thanks to the waitress at the Austin Grill last night who left me her pen to sign the check with— I think I’ve got a new favourite pen.
h2g2 Radio Drama
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is being continued on the BBC radio, starting in September, for the “Tertiary Phase” and in May of next year for the “Quadrenary Phase.” Most of the old radio cast is back, and there’s both a video and audio preview on the BBC’s web page.