Monday, December 23, 2013

Since I will be working most of this week...

...there will be no new fiction, podcast or video content posted until 01/01/14.

Until then I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas,  Happy Holidays and a Rockin' Saturnalia!

 

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

No new podcast this week. Overtime and the holidays and all that...

But if you haven't had a chance to stop by THE WIT AND PODCAST OF AL BRUNO III yet please do so.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

I would like to welcome Kenneth Penn to the Patron's Page!

Thank you Kenneth Penn for your support. Donations like yours are what keep the lights on here at Casa de Bruno.

And remember folks for each donation of over $100 I will obscure this picture of me even more!


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Do you like my stories, videos and podcasts? Then why not make a donation? Only YOU can help me get my daughter's Ipad out of the pawn shop!


Make a donation! All money donated goes to upkeep and art and getting my damn furniture back! All donors will be listed on the PATRONS' PAGE!











Some of my works are only available in Ebook format.  Why not pick one up? And don't forget to leave a review!

PRICE BREAKS AND HEARTACHES VOLUME ONE 
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PRICE BREAKS AND HEARTACHES VOLUME TWO 
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IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
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My video blog review for AMERICAN MARY!

From my YouTube page




Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Hey fellow old farts - do you remember BATTLE OF THE PLANETS?

From BOING BOING
It's one of the first US adaptations of a Japanese anime series that I am aware of (Robotech is my favorite in this genre). Sandy Frank Productions draws on all the popular sci-fi memes of the day and brutally rips off R2-D2 to create a fast, fun and confusing series. Five young and highly-trained agents who dress like birds and fly like gravity doesn't exist gather to defend the Earth from Zoltar, the Luminious One, and planet Spectra...




Hey! This is a Sandy Frank production! You know what that means!

PLAID STALLIONS shares the ghosts of action figures past!

From PLAID STALLIONS



This is what HELLRAISER films could be!

TOPLESS ROBOT

If this can be made on almost no budget, Dimension has definitely been doing the sequels wrong. Director Mike Le Han's most prominent directorial credits are on various UK true-crime reconstruction shows. With the aid of concept artist Paul Gerrard (Wrath of the Titans, Seventh Son) he has done one hell of a lot more than simply reconstructing Clive Barker's world. Think Hellraiser meets Silent Hill meets whatever other Japanese video games have depicted Hell over the years...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

ARMAGIDEON TIME reminds me about the day Snowbird fought a white monster in a blizzard!

From ARMAGIDEON TIME
Where other Alpha Flight members were given ample moments of characterization, Snowbird (a.k.a. Narya a.k.a. Anne McKenzie) spend most of her time flitting about the periphery as a roaming plot device. The daughter of the Inuit goddess Nelvanna (a nice tribute to Canada’s first superhero) and a human archeologist, Snowbird was born to combat the Great Beasts, a group of primordial demons whose return served as a primary plot thread throughout most of Byrne’s tenure on the series.

Apart from participation in one of greatest instances of brass-balls reader-trolling in funnybook history…




Greatest tire commercial EVER!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The line between superheroes and horror is crossed in THE FLYING MAN, a short film by Marcus Alqueres.

Found via GEEK LEAGUE OF AMERICA

 

(Recommended Reads) Check out John Kenneth Muir's musings on the movie PHANTASM (my favorite horror film btw.)


In some fashion direct or indirect, all horror films grapple with the ultimate human fear, mortality. But Don Coscarelli’s landmark 1979 horror Phantasm is a film veritably obsessed with the cessation of life, and also the terrible grief that accompanies death for those left behind on this mortal coil..


Friday, November 29, 2013

A special thank you to Sam Hunt: writer, artist and all around Renaissance man.

He helped me out with the design for 'the Sign of Ninazu' and I couldn't be more grateful. 

Visit his website http://www.theusualmadman.net ! Read his books! Peruse his art! Send him erotic poetry in Klingon!

 

 

From THE WHIRLWIND IN THE THORN TREE

THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE startled him awake, but instead of his bed, he was underwater. Lucidity came at him from every angle, a silent flock of doves converging on his confusion, and brought him to a diamond clarity. A dark and subtle landscape of undulating blue, red, and green materialized from the nothing-world that was his slumber, and the cold water threatened to take his breath away. Somehow he'd gone fromhis bedroom to the brook out back, and shot in the neck somewhere between the two...

 

 

From CHIMNEYSWEEP

WHEN MIKE ELLINGTON WOKE up, he was naked and couldn't move. Not that he was paralyzed--he could feel the cold surface of the table against his back--but he was wrapped in a ton of Christmas lights. His own lights, he realized as he angled his head to look at his bonds. He had been bound to the dining room table with his own damn Christmas lights, the green cords looping over and over and over around his legs, midsection, and arms until he was completely immobilized...

 

 

From TALENT SHOW

"VERY GOOD, BLANCO," I SAID, praising my subject. I held up another card, this one with a picture of a Bengal tiger on it. He leaned closer, and I could hear his eyes focus more precisely on the card. He seemed to be processing it, and then said, "It is an image of a tiger."...

 

Why? I'll tell you why!

I apologize in advance for this one...

 

I bet this brought a tear to every MSTie's eye yesterday!


Joel I was proud to be able to shake your hand recently...

I've always wanted to write a story based on this tune but I've never been able to get one off the ground.

ATTENTION READERS! When you close your eyes...

...do you dream dream about me?

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Also...

 


From BOING BOING

Let AIRLORDS OF AIRIA give you a dose of steampunk!



From MACHINMA

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CALVIN'S CANADIAN CAVE OF COOLNESS is giving me toy flashbacks!

From CCCoC




Monday, November 18, 2013

And now for my Canadian pals A ROB FORD TAIWANESE TRIPLE FEATURE!!!



(Recommended Read) WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: THE UNDISCUSSED HORROR STAPLE OF FEMALE CHARACTERS

From DAY OF THE WOMAN

Physically, sensory, or mentally disabled women have been popping up in horror films from the very beginning. THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is often regarded as the first horror film, and the female lead was a beautiful, blind woman. From the very beginning of the horror genre, the damsel in distress character was the quickest way to write a story. "Girl needs saving from someone or something, man saves girl from someone or something, girl is indebted to man and thanks him by kisses or marriage, the end." Whether it was because male writers needed to make their female characters SUPER vulnerable or whether they needed an excuse to make a woman "weaker," adding a physical/mental/sensory disability to a woman became a quick way to differentiate female characters from the usual damsel in distress. The beginnings showcased disabilities as a major reason for the demise of female characters. 1959's THE TINGLER had a creature that could only be killed by screaming. The death in the film that acts as the catalyst for the entire movie was centered around a woman who was a deaf/mute, and therefore, could not "scream for her life." We can't have a woman be brave enough not to scream when frightened, so we must make her mute…

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