New Addition to the Zonar Library
Mood:  party time!

So I don't know if it's politically correct to use a blog to advertise ones own new release, I am therefore going to do it anyway. I have just completed a coloring book of Zonar. It's one of those things that one day while creating the Lowhirley Age, I realized would be cool to do. For those who are unaware (which should be everybody, since this is the first time it's ever been published) the Lowhirley Age is the time period Zonar lives in. This book contains no story, but features coloring pages of all 32 current inhabitants of Atillia. And it is cannon... I don't know how a coloring book can be considered cannon, but it is... Because I said so, and that's one line lower than Stone Cold's.

 

Zonar - Characters Coloring Book is available from the distributor, and will soon be available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

 

And just so everyone knows, the next story in the series in currently in the works with an estimated target release of Christmas / New Year's. 

New Blog Home

Yes, it's true. I'm still learning this whole blogging thing. I only just found out that my hosting company has a feature for a blog. So I don't need to deal with two different host sites for the main page and the blog. Anywho, to cut a long story short (too late), this is where the blog will be from now on.

 

Just so this blog space isn't wasted on anything more than a new home speech, I am actually going to write about something. For lack of anything better to write about, I'm going to talk about MASH. Originally a book, then a movie, then a TV series. I've never read the book, but I'm under the understanding that the movie was based on it. I recently attempted to view the movie, which was an excruciatingly painful experience, which I'll get back to shortly. Enter the TV show. I grew up in the heart of its original run on TV, I believe I was seven when they did the final season. My siblings watched it, as did my dad. I despised it. I found it severely boring and it made no sense to me. I couldn't figure out why these army guys kept operating on people. The only thing I really remembered about the show was that Alan Alda was in it, and there was a guy named Radar and a cross dresser named Klinger, and that there was a cute blonde girl. Also the basic plot of one episode in which one of the guys sneaks a gun to a meeting.

 

I guess it was about six or seven months ago when my beautiful wife put in a DVD of the show after I told her to pick what we were going to watch. I still thought it to be boring, but endured it sporadically whenever she'd put on an episode. As time wore on, the situations started making sense to me, and I was able to understand for the most part, what was going on. Eventually, I got to where there were a couple of the characters that I really liked (namely, Charles and Klinger). Oddly enough, while it's not my favorite show by a longshot, I've gotten to where I actually like watching a couple episodes here and there.

 

Which brings me back to the movie. As previously stated, I attempted to watch it recently. The names were all the same, but there were different actors playing the parts (with the exception of they guy playing Radar). Just the way it was filmed, put together, and acted out was like fingernails on a chalkboard. You youngsters can Google what a chalkboard is and the significance of using fingernails on one to symbolize a painful experience. Needless to say, I made it I think about 25 or so minutes before turning it off. Though, I am sure I saw it as a kid. Perhaps if I would've watched it before  the show in recent months, I would've been able to enjoy it more. But it's like watching the remake of a show / movie after years of watching the original (or in this case, the exact opposite). Rumor has it that the guy who wrote the book liked the movie but hated the show to the point where he wanted his name removed from anything associated with MASH.

 

So there you have it. The Reader's Digest condensed version of my MASH history. Stay tuned next time where I hope to have a subject that's actually interesting.

 

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