March – 2008 – jenn reese

Slangman’s World: Pronto!

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Mar 31, 2008 |Cosmic Toast, Music, TV Shows

Saturday night, my new company hosted a screening party for our new animated short, “Pronto!” Although I joined the Slangman team after the song itself had been recorded, I did get to see the process develop from script to storyboard to shoot to animatic to finished animation. You wouldn’t believe the amount of work that [...]

Disneyland!

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Mar 10, 2008 |Adventure, Photos

Blue skies, a nice breeze, and free passes to Disneyland… It’s hard to ask for anything more than that! The Indiana Jones ride was first. Lisa had never been on it, and her constant laughter had me laughing the entire ride, too. And screaming. And laughing some more. We dodged arrows and barely avoided being [...]

Above World hits 45K

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Mar 7, 2008 |Above World, Writing

The middle grade novel I’m working on reached 45K words yesterday—Huzzah! Although progress has been slow, it’s been steady… I steadily write a bunch of words one day, and then nothing for the next few. Rinse and repeat. At a writing retreat many years ago, SarahP and I called ourselves “binge” writers. I guess you [...]

Old Job, New Job

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Mar 7, 2008 |Cosmic Toast, Life Stuff

[EDIT: "Maison" is no longer available on YouTube. We'll repost it after some changes.] The only thing that could tempt me back into a full-time job was the opportunity to work with my buddy Slangman again, which I’ve been happily doing for the last few weeks. Back after the dot com bubble burst, I worked [...]

New Amsterdam

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Mar 5, 2008 |TV Shows

I have a thing for long-lived characters. Oh yes, I do. So it was pretty much a no-brainer that I would check out Fox’s New Amsterdam. Some mild spoilers below. What I liked: Unlike similar shows with lots of flashbacks, New Amsterdam is US-centered. The main character was a conquistador and we are led to [...]

Gary Gygax, RIP

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Mar 4, 2008 |Inspiration, Life Stuff

Gary Gygax died today. Gygax was one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, a game that pretty much saved my life when I was a kid. I first heard about D&D at the grade school bus stop. Some older kids were talking about a game involving wizards and dragons, and I couldn’t contain my [...]

New post at SF Novelists

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Mar 2, 2008 |Life Stuff, Reading, Writing

I’ve posted an entry titled Happy Flaw at the SF Novelists website. It’s a short little piece about what got me into reading—and it’s probably not what you think. Happy Sunday, folks! Hope all of you fighting with the flu manage to kick it to the curb real soon now.