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It’s a sad irony that late on Friday night this past weekend I wound up watching Norma Rae, the 1979 movie about a woman in a southern factory town who defies her employers by becoming a union organizer. It was on one of the channels coming in from my digital satellite service. I’d seen it plenty enough before, but this was the first time that I felt led to research the background of the film.

And so it was that I learned the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton. And apart from the changed name, that really was her life that we saw portrayed by Sally Field in Norma Rae. Right down to how Sutton actually scrawled “UNION” on a piece of cardboard and brought the textile plant she worked at to a halt.

Sutton was from Burlington, North Carolina: just down the road from here. And ...

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I’m planning on being at HyperMind in Burlington, North Carolina tomorrow for most of the day, doing videography for their big Monsterpocalypse store-wide event but also gonna finally play this game for the first time ever. Here’s the promo video that I made for it (which is also in the Top Ten for the Monsterpocapalooza contest!)…

Anyhoo, the festivities start at 9 a.m. at HyperMind, located at 3396 South Church Street in Burlington, North Carolina. It’s a family-run store with great atmosphere and good people always stopping by to play Monsterpocalypse, Magic: The Gathering, Star Wars Miniatures, Dungeons & Dragons and just about everything else 🙂...

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So for the past several days I’ve been engulfed in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects and whatnot. Hard at work for some good friends: HyperMind in Burlington (click here for the first write-up I did about ’em). Well, among the very popular games that HyperMind carries is Monsterpocalypse, and this summer its publisher Privateer Press is having a mondo ginormous event called Monsterpocapalooza. As part of the festivities leading up to the release of a new add-on for the game is a contest where game stores are invited to make a promo video for their Monsterpocalypse events.

So anyhoo, here is HyperMind’s entry. I thought it would be neat if we spoofed Cloverfield. And it came out pretty good!

Thanks to everyone in the HyperMind extended family for making this video possible! And if you enjoyed their efforts, please feel free to give a high ...

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A couple of weeks ago I had to go to Burlington, North Carolina, about thirty minutes away from home here in Reidsville, on a business errand. I wound up with some time to kill and thought I’d drive around my old stompin’ grounds, since I lived there for a few years while a student at Elon. The west end of town in particular has grown a lot recently, what with a new Target Supercenter and a Best Buy and a new movie cinema and all kinds of other good places.

Anyway, it was while on south Church Street that I came across HyperMind…

With a name like that, I couldn’t resist going in.

It turns out that HyperMind, now at its second and larger location since first opening in 2006, is a game store. And to the best of my recollection, there hasn’t been a place like this serving ...

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It was actually my wife Lisa who discovered it. A few days ago she was at the Best Buy in Burlington (North Carolina) shopping with a friend and she spotted Transformers: The Score, the soundtrack CD composed by Steve Jablonsky from this summer’s smash-hit movie (and also the CD that this blog may or may not have played some role in trying to expedite its release 🙂 sitting on the rack in the music section. Although Transformers: The Score came out on October 9th, it has been notoriously hard to find in regular retail outlets. In fact, just about the only way most people have been able to reliably purchase a copy is via Amazon.com, where it’s been selling consistently well (currently #80 in music overall and #10 in soundtracks).

Here’s a photo of it at Best Buy (looks like they’ve got quite a few in stock)…

And ...

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