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Mostly Atari-related projects, and other ramblings. Home of the Artie the Atari comic strip.

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W(ogie)RC

And so… another year brings another season of the World Rally Championship.   Uh… is anyone watching this anymore?   Anyone?   It's been just one guy named Sebastien winning everything after another. First Loeb, now Ogier. Particularly impressive last year though was how dominant Ogier was in a brand new car, on a brand new team. Not just new to him, but VW was an all-new team, period. Admittedly, he had about a year of development time in the car beforehand, but that wasn't in competition
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Frozen - Spoiler-free review

So I went to see Frozen a few days ago. Opening week, Black Friday, afternoon matinee, packed house, tons of kids. Now I've been in movie theaters before with lots of kids, and if the movie doesn't completely hold their attention, it's a miserable place to be. They get restless and bored, never sit still, and never stop talking. If a movie is too complex for them to follow, they never stop asking questions. If it's too scary for real little kids (and the parents too irresponsible to recognize th
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Gravity - Spoiler-free review

From the trailers, Gravity looked sort-of interesting. In the way that Moon looked sort-of interesting. I went and saw Moon, and really liked it.   A lot of people have been seeing Gravity, and according to Rotten Tomatoes anyway, they've really liked it.   So I ponied up twenty bucks, and saw it in IMAX 3D. I figured that way I'd get the best experience out of it.   Am I missing something?   Okay... the movie looks amazing. Really amazing. The 3D works as well as I've ever seen in a fea
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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8, 500, and other meaningless numbers

Well, it's the eighth anniversary of my blog, and my 500th blog entry.   I've posted 162 episodes of Artie the Atari (with an updated index), 109 homebrew reviews (spread over 38 entries), about 40 movie reviews (I need to go in and fix some tags, apparently), blogged about 4 seasons of the WRC and 5 seasons of The Clone Wars. Plus I've posted a few To-Do lists, a handful of Photoshop tutorials, and the occasional rant about videogames. So I guess the rest was all filler. I'm not really sure h
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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New old music - parts 6 & 7

Hey, hey - it's two-fer-one!   I've admitted before to being a fan of The Monkees. After Davy Jones' passing, the three remaining ex-Monkees got together and did a concert tour. Now, I didn't go and see them, since I had a hard time justifying the expense. Good tickets were crazy-expensive, and frankly, reunion concerts more often than not leave something to be desired. I'm more interested in new work, than hearing old work endlessly trotted out.   To that end, Michael Nesmith has had an ext
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Pacific Rim - Spoiler-free review

How do you write a spoiler-free review about a movie that is completely predictable and exactly what you expect it to be?   Beats me, but I'll give it a shot.   Pacific Rim is live-action anime. If you're at all familiar with anime, you'll know exactly where this movie is going at every turn. But really, that's the whole point. It's supposed to be an homage, tribute, rip-off or love letter to anime. More to the point, if you don't get anime, you probably aren't going to get this film either.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Artie the Atari - The Lost Episodes

Okay... these aren't so much "lost" as "procrastinated".   I had written and nearly completed these strips almost two years ago, as the conclusion to the "100th episode spectacular" storyline.   To recap: consoles began mysteriously disappearing. It turned out that Evil Artie was responsible, having assembled a massive army of zombie E.T. cartridges from the Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. What was Evil Artie's plan? Where was he taking his army? What happened to all of the kidnapped consol
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Monsters University - Spoiler-free Review

Well, I'll admit I wasn't expecting much from Monsters University. I thought the original Monsters Inc. was a pretty-good movie, but not among Pixar's best. Since I'd first heard about Monsters U, it always struck me as being the sequel (or prequel) nobody asked for.   Also, it's been pretty frustrating watching Pixar deteriorate into a sequel machine. Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Monsters U... 3 of their last 4 films were sequels. 4 out of 5 if you count Planes (which was actually made by Disney Toon
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Artie the Atari - the (in)complete index

As Artie the Atari grinds its way towards its 150th episode, I decided to put an index together of all of the episodes to date. Someday, I'd like to annotate and collect them all into a PDF or iBook, but that may have to wait until episode 300. (Note: since writing that I've gone well past the 300th episode. Still thinking "someday" for the book. ) I'll periodically update the index as new episodes are added. 2007 The first strips! Artie's flickering Adventure: Stripping
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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