It’s a quick video but there’s so much to love about this 1986 commercial for A Mythology of Light: The Mirror of Palthena on the Famicom System (or Kid Icarus on the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US)! First cool thing: it features an adult playing and not a kid! In 1986! Second cool thing:…
Regis Philbin had a long history with the Walt Disney Company as a regular host of Disney’s Christmas Parade. His approach to hosted moments, crowdwork, and pre-taped segments was truly one-of-a-kind. One of my favorite Regis moments is this 1993 preview for the upcoming “Twilight Zone Tower of Terror” attraction. In a pre-taped segment, Regis…
If you were a middle schooler in Orlando, Florida in the 1991-1992 school year and had perfect attendance through February, you were given the opportunity to get up early on Saturday morning and ride a school bus to the Orlando Arena (now the Amway Center) during the NBA All Star Weekend to attend the NBA…
There’s something comforting about this mellow, brown 1990 ad for the Prodigy internet service. It’s two minutes (two minutes!) of the glory and promise of the internet, laid out in optimistic clarity. A yuppie has his aging neighbor over to his aging-neighbor-approved house and is eager to show off his computer. The yuppie explains the…
So, I decided to go ahead and make a print edition of distant friends. The proof arrived today, and it looks okay!
Once approved, the book will be up on Amazon in about 24 hours. It’s really kind of an afterthought; after spending so much time on the digital editions it didn’t take much to go ahead and package it for a print edition. I used createspace to distribute it – in my experience it seems like the best option for both fulfillment on Amazon as well as print-on-demand for physical copies I want to sell myself. There will be a post on distribution options coming!
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