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I have a hard time believing it. Do you know that I've been writing movie reviews for 26 full years now? I don't quite understand how something that was
supposed to be a "one off" has become more than 26 years of regular movie reviews. (For an example of one of our movie reviews, this month's review can be
found at www.appletonstudios.com/movies2.htm.) But it's true - and the end of 26 years of movie reviews also means that Volume XIII of Da'ud Bob ibn
Briggs Goes to the Movies has been published and is now available for purchase to read at your pleasure. Two years' worth of movie reviews - 25 different
movies (we published two reviews in one month last year) - all in the inimitable style of the "Briggsian school of alfresco film criticism." (Holman and
Harmon, A Handbook to Literature, p. 217)
You can get a complete list of the published movie reviews we've done, including those in Volume XIII, at www.appletonstudios.com/movies3.htm, or
purchase any of the thirteen regular volumes of movie reviews, or the two specialized volumes of movie reviews (the Best and Worst of Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs
Goes to the Movies and Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs Goes to Shakespeare Movies), at www.appletonstudios.com/movies1.htm.
It took us a little longer this year (we'd misplaced our copy of the Proceedings of the 2011 Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium), but we've finally
finished updating our Index to all of the KWHSS proceedings to include this year's symposium held in High Point, North Carolina. Each year's proceedings,
from 1973 through 2011, are indexed by symposium, by category of article, and by the authors' names. More information about this useful index can be found
on our Books and Games page.
We've added a new page to the website: there is now a "Presentations" page that lists many of our illustrated speaker presentations and gives a brief synopsis of
each one. We hope that this will be more helpful in explaining what these talks are about. Check out our new Presentations page for all of this information.
Test your knowledge of many of the movies we have reviewed over the years. Take the new Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs Historical Drive-In Movie Quiz! Take the
test on-line here, or download a .pdf version here. And then compare your results with the Answers found here.
We keep regularly adding new entries to our web log, or blog, about heraldry. The blog is musings of one kind or another about some of the heraldry that we
see, or find, or run across in our research. The hope is that our readers will find it informative, educational and of interest. We also have links to some of the
better on-line armorials and ordinaries, heraldry websites, heraldry books, heraldic clipart and other blogs about heraldry, to all of which we continue to add as
we find good ones. We encourage you to check it out and, if you find it interesting, to drop back by on a regular basis to see what's new. Or you can become a
Follower and get updates emailed directly to your in-box. (There's a link to do that down the left-hand column on the blog's page.) You can find our blog,
Heraldry: Musings about an esoteric topic on-line at http://blog.appletonstudios.com
Drop by our Free Stuff page, where we will place various goodies that you can access or download for free.
Our first free needlework chart for the new year has been uploaded here (or you can use the link on our Free Stuff page). (These needlework charts are a series
of charts of various heraldic charges. They are in .pdf format, but if you'd prefer one of these free charts as a .jpg or .gif or in some other format, please feel free
to write, telephone, or e-mail us at the address, telephone number, or e-mail addresses here and we will be happy to send you one! Let us know which format
you prefer.)
We also sell a set that includes the first twelve of these needlework charts, another set that features the second twelve, a third set that features the third dozen,
and so on up through the eighth dozen. Or you can get a CD-ROM with all 96 charts on it (each chart is 3"x3", 18 stitches/inch). More information and a
description of what these packages include can be found here.
Naturally, we're hoping that you will see actual examples of what we can produce and ask us to create charts of larger, more complex heraldic works, or
customized needlework or embroidery charts on any subject. In the meantime, though, we are finding it a fun project that let's us combine our various interests -
heraldry and textile arts - and we hope that you may find them entertaining and educational, as well.
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