A Week in Writing - The Sound of Music

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.

Rarely does a review dominate a week as much as The Sound of Music took. I hate to say it, but it took up most of my writing time this week working on it. It's a little short of 3000 words. Since we watched it on Sunday afternoon, I didn't really get to it until Monday, and then it was a combination of a late start and trying to pay attention to a replay of a Cowboys game, which took time. I had to watch the game over two nights as it was. Anyway, the review is done and I don't have a new one to work on this week.

Since Saturday was also Batman Day, we ended up watching three episodes of the Batman serial from 1943. As you can imagine, as it was made during World War II, there are racist comments about the Japanese. My idea is to watch the serial and then review it, so this will be a few weeks in the making, but we'll be ready for Batman Day next year for sure.

Batman Day also has a certain place in Powers Squared history as that was the day, four year ago, when we (Paul, Trevor, myself and Julia Canon) had our signing at Golden Apple in Hollywood. I remember because we were also asked to hand out free Batman books.

Speaking of Powers Squared, the next issue, #26 - "The Great Escape", is coming out on Wednesday, September 24. On the same day, the next issue of Trevor's The Blade of Miracles, #7 - "Vivienne", is also being released. To commemorate the ocassion, our podcast on Friday, OAPS #317 - "SRCC Press September MEGA Update", was a preview of both issues, with Julia Canon guesting to talk about "The Great Escape". You can still catch it on twitch.tv (at least the live version), or listen to it here, or watch it on our YouTube channel on Wednesday, after 2:30 pm PDT.

In the meantime, you can watch Oreo-Reese's Taste Test that went up this afternoon. In it, Paul samples the various Oreo and Reese's combinations that are currently on the market and gives his opinion.

The Saturday Morning Review on Trophy Unlocked, was Trevor's review of Lilo & Stitch (2025), one of the summer movies that we decided to wait until it was on Disney+. We recently had that same experience with Elio and a review from Paul will probably be out next week or soon after.

My work this week on Blackmail, isn't worth writing about, so we'll leave it there.

This coming week, I need to produce a press release and Bark newsletter about the new issue. Other than that, I'm hoping to spend most of my time working on Blackmail.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing and I'll see you back here next week.