The Battle of Britain (1969 film) [/] British war film starting from when France falls and the British fighter pilots flee to Britain. Then preparations to repel an invasion while the Germans prepare. Then the actual Battle of Britain: several months of the Germans trying to blow up the British airfields and destroy their fighters until they kind of give up and go over to bombing cities. Has stuff about the use of radar and observers and the home front. A coherent story that leaves out a lot of things while hitting the highlights, like the use Big Wings of defending fighters which took a long time to set up so they often missed the bombers but when they did hit… This is an average war movie of the time. Entertaining but not engrossing.

The Clone Wars (2008 film) [-] This is an animated film that precedes The Clone Wars (2008) tv series and the film continues from Clone Wars (2003) shorts. Most of this film centers on Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) though other characters have small bits, such as Padmé Amidala (Catherine Taber) investigating an arms smuggler on Coruscant. We also have the introduction of Anakin’s first and only Padwan, Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein)… As a stand-alone film I found it was all action no plot maybe because the regular series will continue plots and themes.

Running a Game Publishing Company (2006) [/] This is a work-in-progress book written by Steve Cole of Amarillo Design Bureau (publishers of Star Fleet Battles). It’s based on his at-the-time 30+ years experience in the Adventure Gaming industry (i.e. miniature wargaming, table-top wargaming, role-playing games). It’s a lot of good practical advice if you want to start a small business that includes publishing your stuff, having a warehouse and shipping to distributors/wholesalers. Not the most readable of documents (if you’ve read the SFB rules you know what I mean) and I’m not starting a business but I still found it interesting and educational.

The SportsEthos Sacramento Kings Podcast (2019) [-] This podcast started when Monte McNair took over as general manager and it has gone through various hosts. One lone host for a season. Then Jill Adge as cohost. Then the guy replaced with another guy. Then Jill Adge alone for a bit. Then Daily Sabonis added and then Jill phased out. With Jill as a cohost, not driving the show, it was the best incarnation since she’s more facts and info than commentary. The current incarnation is one or two guys plus a woman, mostly a podcast after each game, and mostly a few minutes commenting on the game then 2/3rds of the time taking listener voice messages. I find it quite boring now.