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Remembering Martin H Greenberg the Green Bay Packager JSOOnline (Milwaukee): Remembering Martin H. Greenberg, the Green Bay Packager Martin H. Greenberg edited and organized so many collections and anthologies of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and other writing, he was sometimes called the Green Bay Packager. Greenberg, a retired University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor, died June 25 at age 70. While still teaching at the university, he began a sideline of editing anthologies and packaging books, working with some of the biggest names in popular fiction, including Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, Stephen King and Sue Grafton. "He helped publish more than 2,500 books, including novels, anthologies, and nonfiction works," according to a statement in the obituary that his family published in the Green Bay Press Gazette. In a 2001 article, the Journal Sentinels Dave Tianen described the range of Greenbergs many entertaining fiction collections: "The books Greenberg has publis...

The Green Lantern I went to see The Green Lantern yesterday, and didnt really care for it. It starts out with the same old character tropes - the hero is an irresponsible womanizer who is given great powers, doesnt think he can handle them, his brilliant friend and beautiful girlfriend point out to him what he doesnt realize himself, then he gets an epiphany and goes out to save the world. Theres another trope I didnt care for. Irresponsible handsome character gets to be the hero, irresponsible ugly character gets turned into a deformed monster. Yes, lets teach all children that the good or evil inside someone is represented by their facial features. Other than that.... the movie was certainly a bit too rushed in some spots, draggy in others. There seems to be a blooper, Sinestro takes his hand-picked Lanterns flying toward Parallax - who is coming closer to Earth, then in the next scene hes present to scoff at Hal Jordans training, in the next scene hes watching his Lanterns being des...

The Green Hornet Seth Rogan version Last week, the SciFi channel showed a marathon of Green Hornet shows - the ones with Van Williams as Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato. It was fun watching a show I hadnt seen in 30 years, and yes, Lees Kato was definitely the star of the show - we all watched it for his martial arts prowess. I went to see Seth Rogans Green Hornet today, and ... it was okay. I could have done without some of the language, and there were a couple of villains-after-death closeups that I could have done without...but...it was okay. And young people today are so immured to bad language...they probably wouldnt even notice it...which is both good and bad. Anyway, it opens 20 years earlier, with Britt Reid being brought to his fathers office at the Daily Sentinel. He was involved in a fight at school, but his dad wont listen to him when he says that hed tried to help a little girl who was being bullied by some boys. His father destroys his super hero action figure. 20 years ...

The Green Pajamas If You Knew What I Dreamed Reviewed by Nathan Ford Now that youve had a chance to digest that wonderful new album by the Junipers lets take a look at another of the releases which accompanied it from Sugarbush Records. Im sure that youre all aware from my glowing reviews of Green Monkey Records excellent archival reissues of the Green Pajamas mid-eighties albums of exactly how much I love this particular band. They may well be THE great lost pop band, still recording today, and with an enormous, rewarding back catalogue. Jeff Kelly (who has always written the majority of Green Pajamas material) is a bit of a genius, a graduate from the classic school of pop songwriting who combines Beatlesque melodies with imagery youd more reasonably expect to encounter in classic gothic literature. His songs often contrast chiming guitar riffs with wistful, melancholy melody lines in a way that leaves the listener expecting a twist around every corner. All of which makes the fact th...

The Stroke Band Green And Yellow 1978 us exciting art punk power rock 2014 edition Green And Yellow is the collected recordings of legendary lost 1970s Deep South freaksters, THE STROKE BAND. Seen and heard, until now, by only a few South Georgia pot heads, rednecks, sheriffs, strippers, and intoxicated U.S. Marines. Fronted by Bruce Joyner � a swamp rat synthesis of Buddy Holly, Bryan Ferry and Jerry Lee Lewis � The Stroke Band were an art-punk aberration to anything else happening in South Georgia in 1978 � 79. This Anthology Recordings re-release of the Green and Yellow album is the first in any form since the private press LP came out in 1978. The Green And Yellow digital and CD releases include the original Green And Yellow album; plus the band�s only live performance at Joe�s Cellar � a notorious strip club in Albany, Georgia; and a set of demos and psychotic improvs from their Cork House headquarters in Valdosta. Singer and band leader Bruce Joyner, who signed to Sire Records wi...

The Green Pajamas To The End of The Sea V A Gathered Leaves Reviews by Nathan Ford Im getting too old to keep up with all of Sugarbush Records wonderful output, but here are a couple of highlights from their last few months of releases,  lovingly pressed in small quantities on vinyl (350 and 200 copies respectively). A new Green Pajamas album is always cause for celebration, and "To The End Of The Sea" may well be their best for a decade. CD and digital releases happened earlier on in the year, but Sugarbush have done us all a favour by putting it out on lovely blue vinyl (their third Green Pajamas vinyl release). While recent albums have tried different things and had much to recommend them, "To The End Of The Sea" returns to the tried and true classic Pajamas sound of the late nineties / early noughties with Jeff Kellys best set of songs for a long time, albeit with a more knowingly psychedelic presentation, which is just fine with me. "When Juliet Smiles...