Posted by Rob on January 9, 2011 – 11:31 pm
Filed under TV Shows
Tagged as big bad bob, bigbadbob, blade, cain, carnies, chess, comic, david copperfield, heroes, nbc, no ordinary family, scales, super hero, the cape, vince
I was watching TV last week, and saw a brief thirty-second teaser for NBC’s new show, The Cape. I had heard nothing about it before this, or until I watched the series premiere tonight, but that teaser had me sold. It looked like a solid super hero series, but with a darker, more serious undertone to it. After watching tonight’s two hour series premiere, I’m pretty happy with the show, and I look forward adding the series to the list of series I watch regularly.
As I said, the show has a more serious/realistic feel to it. It follows the life of Vince, a detective who is eventually framed for murder and then “killed” on television. However, Vince survives, and is taken in by a gang of bank robbers who are actually carnies (I don’t know what it is with these super hero shows and carnies these days…) Vince is trained by the different members where he perfects his melee fighting skills, as well as learns hypnotism and masters the art of escaping and creating illusions, much like David Copperfield. Vince is also trained to wield a special cape and uses it as a major form of combat, as he can whip it around and grab objects at a distance with it.
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Posted by Rob on January 11, 2010 – 12:09 pm
Filed under My Personal Life
Tagged as albany, blade, christmas, collection, franklin mint, frodo, gandalf, highlander, knife, lightsaber, lord of the rings, MacCloud, nazgul, shuriken, spider-man, Star Wars, swiss army, sword, tae kwon do, weapon
On Saturday, the women (Shell, Cara, and my mom) went out shopping in the afternoon. While I was home at my parents house, I decided to go up to my room and look over my weapons collection. Ive been collecting bladed weapons for many years, and have an extensive collection of all kinds of swords, knives, axes, and other weapons. I dont remember how I first got interested in it, but Im sure my Tae Kwon Do training had a big impact on it. As I was looking through them, I thought it would be interesting to show off some of my personal favorites in a post. Mind you, what you are seeing here is only a sampling of what I own. I just picked some of my favorites and the things that looked coolest. I also own other weapons that I didnt put on here because they arent that special or because I probably shouldnt share them publicly…
This is the weapons cabinet in my room. As you can see, it is filled with weapons and boxes containing more weapons…mostly swords and knives. I also have a stash of my larger weapons in my closet.
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