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Strongarm Labs

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About Me

Hi! Sam Girdich, here. Co-creator of the graphic novel/graphic arts project Strongarm Labs with Mark Gonyea. Mark is the guy in my Friends section under the nomenclature Mr. Oblivious. Looking for our main sites? Select the links below for more info on Strongarm Labs, our work, and more. Thanks.

My Interests

For Mark, see Mark's page. Thanks! Sam:I just finished writing a science fiction novel and I'm now starting a movie adaptation of our comic The Haunting House. I'll keep you posted on both. Very exciting! Otherwise, I like reading, comics, movies, good sandwiches, science, pseudo-science, and trying to figure out why things are the way they are so I can better explain life to my children.

I'd like to meet:

Lots of people! Creative geek types are always welcome. Nice folks we meet at comic conventions. Harvey Hubbell II, inventor of the electric outlet in 1909, and other people no one's ever heard of, but have shaped the world. Well, maybe not Harvey because he's dead, but you get the picture. Is it odd that bits like this make me think there is hope for the world? Enjoy "Of Mice and Supermen" and tell me about the rabbits again, George. One of my favorite "Ask a Ninja" episodes. I had a Python/Trek vid up a while ago so now it's time for a Python/Star Wars one. Enjoy!

Music:

God help me, I am a child of the 80's so I like the weird, the one-hit-wonder, and the unusual. I recently discovered Dr. Steel and Smeff. I recommend you discover them, also. Marillion (Fish era) is a valued source of inspiration. I like to write while listening to any of Enigma's CDs and The Seduction of Claude DeBussy by The Art of Noise. I enjoy the mesh of classical and modern.

Movies:

B-movies, sci-fi, bad zombie flicks, good zombie flicks, documentaries, almost everything Jackie Chan has done.For a list of my current top 50 titles, check out my blog Lights! Camera! Action!

Television:

MST3K, The Prisoner, LOST, Heroes, Ken Burns mini-series, Monty Python, original Twilight Zone, assorted BBC fare like The Young Ones and Black Adder, orignal Trek, Simpsons

Books:

** CURRENTLY READING ** Hyperion by Dan Simmons Avid reader of non-fiction and very part-time collector of early 1900's textbooks. I owe my love of reading to author/philosopher/comedian Robert Anton Wilson, who left this mortal coil on 1/11/07 to rejoin his loving wife Arlen and start having some real fun. I'll miss you, Uncle Bob. The last books I read were: Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Anthem by Ayn Rand, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Brother Andre:The Miracle Man of Mount Royal by Laurent Boucher, 46 Pages by Scott Liell, Linguistic Anthropology by Nancy Parrott Hickerson, The Ape That Spoke by John McCrone, Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, and Woe is I by Patricia O'Conner.

Heroes:

Coming soon. It's a long list.

My Blog

Heroes...argh!

How many times have we seen the villain get (insert violent act here) only to crawl away when no one is looking? It was painful watching Heroes slink into bed with this cliché. So many good episodes a...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:23:00 PST

The Purchase

The Purchase   Billy's hell is two rooms in a husk twelve stories tall with no happy endings. His little brother screams for sweets he can never have, while red water oozes like old jelly...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:26:00 PST

Thoughts of a Visitor

My father hated winter. The first falling of white would send him into a bee's dance of endless puttering, planning, and just plain annoyance. Happiness to him was looking over long rows of living gre...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:52:00 PST

Visiting Hours - a true ghost story

Visiting Hours - a true ghost story -   I was seventeen years old and living in Marcy, NY in the summer of 1987. Located just outside Utica, Marcy was sparsely populated and not known for much...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:47:00 PST

The Twilght (work) Zone

      I'm going out on a limb and stating I am probably not the only person in America or the rest of the world who has had a logical, practical, and well-balanced career de...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:27:00 PST

By Way of Goliath

I've always felt bad for Goliath. He was the original Red Shirt.The cot had not been kind.His lower back woke before him and ushered in morning with a stream of what felt like deep dagger thrusts befo...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:37:00 PST

A quote and a goal

One of my favorite quotes. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:08:00 PST

Lights! Camera! Action!

For no other reason than fun, here is a list of my (current) favorite films. I'm always looking for new entries so send me suggestions. Thanks! My top 50 favorite films*  (*Subject to change a...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:52:00 PST

Rest Stop - A Short Horror

    Words scare me. I am serious. Words are the tools we use to map and organize the concepts of our world. Words have inspired men to walk on the moon and draw steel against their own ...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:17:00 PST

The Rest of The Wild West

I work for an insurance company. I'm not sure how else to describe the environment of my office other than saying, "I work for an insurance company." Recently, the staff was put to the task of plannin...
Posted by Strongarm Labs on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:58:00 PST