It was inspired by a visit Frank Herbert made to my tiny little home town on the Oregon Coast. Not NEAR my hometown, my tiny hometown specially, which has some of the tallest sand dunes in the world.
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Frank Herbertโs daughter lives here currently, and kindly donated her fatherโs research materials to our relatively small, but still awesome public library, the Siuslaw Public Library, where itโs currently on display.
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One of the reasons I love it here is the bizarre strata of natural landscapes..
It goes immediately from the ocean, with volcanic rock formations, to the tallest sand dunes in the world, then forests and lakes, all within just a couple miles, a bit further and itโs mountains. 3/
Herbertโs daughter hooked up our library and theater with Frank Herbertโs grandson, who consulted on the new movie. The theater (which is awesome) is CityLightsCinema, and they are having a Dune/Herbert celebration until November 4th.
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Itโs a wonderful little theatre run by genuine lovers of cinema.
If you are a big Herbert fan, or Dune fan, some of this stuff canโt be seen anywhere else.
You might consider a day out here, come take a look at the dunes, they really are awe-inspiring.
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Itโs very strange that this tiny town inspired both DUNE and STAR WARS, making it possibly the most important place in SF history.
I was born here.
We have three stoplights. We have no Indian food.
But we changed SF forever.
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Population 9,000, inspirational birthplace of Paul Atreides AND Luke Skywalker.
Not too shabby.
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Have a great day, everyone.
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P.S. The very dunes that inspired Frank Herbertโฆ?
Literally across the street from my house.
I used to pretend they were Arrakis or Tatooine.
A lot of people feel their home town is magical, but for me, IT REALLY WAS.
I have been thinking this forever but this morning it really hit me.
@stephenking is a badass.
Just a combustion engine. Love that guy.
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There have been a dozen times where the thing getting me through a tough time was simply having a Stephen King novel or anthology or movie adaptation to enjoy.
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When I was a kid, the very first novel I ever read (I was probably a little young for it) where the cast was all female and took all roles from villain to tragic hero and everywhere in-between was Carrie. To this DAY, I still haven't read many novels that can make that claim.
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I hear all the time, and have thought it myself, why does the world fear and hate mutants, but love the scary-looking oddballs in, say, the Fantastic Four?
Here is a thought about that.
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The Fantastic Four comes to save you.
You look out, and you see standing around you;
A woman who disappears
A man on fire
A rock-like golen creature
and the ultimate stretchy body horror.
OR.
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You look out and see
A great-looking guy with sunglasses
A beautiful woman with a cool fire bird effect
A goddess controlling a storm
A slightly hairy Canadian.
Why are citizens afraid of THIS four, and not the others?
When I was in second grade, our teacher read us, over the course of several days, an adaptation of Cool Hand Luke.
None of us knew anything about prisons, Southern culture, road gangs, prisoner abuse, or crime in general, really. We were seven years old, and enthralled.
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I remember, NO ONE missed school after the first day.
It starts with Luke, played by Paul Newman in the movie, getting drunk and busting up parking meters, for no good reason, so your introduction to him, in a childโsโ view, is bad, not revolutionary.
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Spoilers, but Luke ends up paying a heavy price for simply not being able to go along with what he is told to do, the falsehoods he is told are true. It is inevitable, even as kids we knew there would be no happy ending.
And we know it was wrong, the escalation. As kids.
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One of my favorite moments of the #DeadpoolAndWolverine World Premiere night.
The actual event was loud and flashy, the movie was bombastic. And Iโm shy.
After it was over, walking back to my hotel with my beloved hubbyโฆ
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We saw Chris Claremont (resplendent in his pink jacket) in a quiet spot in a little park across from the huge event facade.
He took a photo, I think, and it might just be my fangirl imagination, but it seemed to me he was contemplating the spectacle and his role in it allโฆ
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I didnโt want to interrupt.
So I just said hi, in passing. But he had some musings which I will treasure to have been there to hear.
And he talked a little about Hugh Jackman and the choices they made with the writing and performing of the character.
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All right, so this will take a bit, but this is a thread I have wanted to do for a while.
This is it, the X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES mega-thread!
Interested in the upcoming X-books but a little overwhelmed by the new characters, creative teams, and titles?
Well, I had an idea!
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In this thread, I am going to give an unapologetic personal opinion about each of the upcoming titles, starting with tomorrow's X-MEN #1.
I admit up front I am biased, okay? These are MY opinions, I have not consulted with the creative or editorial teams.
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I have read all the issues of all these books so far. They are all creative teams I like. They are all pushing for the best books they can. And I am on a bit of an X-Men high and don't deny my OBVIOUS enthusiasm.