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Mark(!)

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About Me

My name is Mark A. Lester. I make up stories. I draw stuff. I’m nicer than I look. I can eat standing up. I’m probably smarter than you. I’m not as tall as I think. I write stuff. I can count to ten. I don’t like math. I don’t believe what others believe. I am obsessed with things most people don’t think about. I don’t care what people think. I don’t smile much. That's not true. I like to laugh. Usually at you. I have a terrible memory. I prefer old movies. I prefer books over people. No one is honest. Not even with themselves. I think I’m normal. I think I’m the only one. People are strange. I’m nicer than you think. Someone is reading this. I only want to try. I don’t care if anyone cares. That’s a good thing. No one cares. Nothing matters. I know how to lie. Life is fake. I like dreaming. I can sleep laying down. I’m not funny. I think I am. I don’t know anyone like me. I creep people out. I don’t play well with others. I don’t eat fast food. I like fast food. I like being around people who are passionate about something. Anything. I prefer being alone. There are a lot of artists better than me. I don’t really care. I don't wish on stars. I love old radio dramas. I don’t listen to much music. I think Sean Connery made the best 007. I don’t care for phones. I like to sleep. I am a very spiritual person. I don’t agree with anyone about anything. I think I’m right. I never yell. I hate drama. I can’t cook. I like pulp magazines. I think I would have been better off if I were born fifty years earlier. I’d be dead now if I was. I still wish I was. I like science fiction. I think it’s more true than “real life”. I don’t care for material things. That’s good. I have nothing. I never leave. I’ve been left before. I didn’t like it. I don’t lie. I won’t tell you what I don’t want you to know. I have a sarcastic sense of humor. I think I’m funny. I’m a romantic. I’m usually alone. I want to live forever. I think I will. I live the life I choose. I make no apologies. People come to me. I know your secrets. I keep secrets. Most people think I’m strange. They’re right. I am a loner. People think I’m the life of the party. I have no idea why. I’m arrogant, thoughtful, kind, smart and decent. And it really doesn’t matter.
Welcome to the Five Star Asylum, where I streach out my promised 15 Minutes of fame into an endless, one-sided conversation. I pity you. I really do.
I'm am a creator, writer and illustrator all wrapped up in a nice little package called Five Star Studios. Although you may call it something else. Good for you.
Life is what it is and I am who I am.

My Interests

I like science fiction. I think that this world is more than what we can see and feel ... that it's bigger than anything we can imagine or dream of. Sci-fi represents the unlimted possiblities of ... life. Horror is cool and action is great, but sci-fi opens the door to ... everything.

Books are a passion of mine. Movies are great. Great movies are even better. Anything that plays with, and twists, reality and what we believe to be true. Art, comics and strips, old pulp magazines and strange, unusual people.

Hum ... Apparently I'm not just a geek, I'm a pretentious geek.

Whatever.

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I'd like to meet:

Does it matter? Cool people are great but too many people only think they're cool when what they really are is just annoying. I like strange. Strange is cool. I prefer strange. Normal is not only boring, but more likely than not, totally untrue ... No one is normal. Everyone is strange.

Five Star Comics
Reality isn't what you think it is.

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SFPI: Able to see into the minds of others, driven to act by the needs of those around him - Morgan Stone is a man propelled into other worlds.

Dark, creepy, supernatural, sci-fi fun!

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Morgan Stone: The Sci Fi Private Eye

Movies:

Radio dramas, movie serials. 'B' horror and scifi movies. The Butterfly Effect, Dark City, The Darkroom, Donnie Darko, The I Inside, The Jacket, Matrix(1), Momento, The Sixth Sense ...

Television:

Angel, Buffy, Danny Phantom, Doctor Who, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Smallville, The Twilight Zone, Quatermass, X-Files ...

Books:

Pulp magazines, Dime Novels, Golden Age comic books and strips. Serials: Spencer, Doctor Who, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes ... The Time Traveler's Wife, Odd Thomas ...

My Blog

www.fivestarcomics.com/blog.html

I'm still doing the blog-thing, only not here so much. Check out my blog there if ya' wanna keep reading. Sorry 'bout this. I know how frustrating it is to be lead someplace and then redirected somepl...
Posted by Mark(!) on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:54:00 PST

Gay stuff.

J. K. Rowlings has just let everyone in on a little secret - Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and perhaps the most powerful wizard who ever lived , is gay. GAY! While I am not a supporter of ou...
Posted by Mark(!) on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:23:00 PST

See? I told you so.

Although I haven't been posting much here for a while I promise you that I've still been thinking. Stuff's still bouncing around my head. Sadly, I'm only online at work and I never seem to have the ti...
Posted by Mark(!) on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

Soylent Green and me.

Okay. Let's catch up because I've not written here in a while because ... well ... you know ... I'm lazy and all.I got my pennies all saved and counted and sent away for a Tom Corbett, Space Cadet DVD...
Posted by Mark(!) on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:54:00 PST

Get Real.

I read earlier today... "Ghost Rider star Eva Mendes will round out the cast of Frank Miller's The Spirit, joining Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Gabriel Macht, Variety reported." Ahem. H...
Posted by Mark(!) on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:51:00 PST

Ill be your Huckleberry

The right man, at the right time for the job.Actually, I've just always wanted to say that. Yes. It was a nice as I'd hoped it would be. As a matter of fact, I may just use it agai...
Posted by Mark(!) on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:33:00 PST

Tom Corbett News

I've just discovered a site that sells DVDs of the old Tom Corbett, Space Cadet program! www.swapsale.com This is a fantastic find. TC:SC was an early, live action SF show that appeared, at one time o...
Posted by Mark(!) on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST

Flash Gordon

The Sci Fi Channel has a new Flash Gordon series starting in August. I think I might be pleased. While I'm in a retro mood ... Am I the only one who thought that Farscape could easily have been an upd...
Posted by Mark(!) on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

Didya ever notice ...?

That there is a really small percentage of people who look better naked than they do with clothes? The human body is a beautiful thing. Yet most of us twist it into something almost unrecognizable. We...
Posted by Mark(!) on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

We are the forgotten ...

I sit and ponder and wonder - "Why?".Why are we here? What is the purpose? What good is there? What is life? Where does it begin and where does it end?Does it? Why am I here?Is this all there is?Is th...
Posted by Mark(!) on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:19:00 PST