: About Me

Brian Fitzpatrick is a software engineer and writer who lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife, two daughters, two dogs, two cats, and tries desperately to survive the chaos.

My passion is ...

Roleplaying Games

I know too much about ...

Computers

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I set my mind to

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

is of the summer I went to college when my entire family was together and happy

Why I write ...

to express different sides of myself

My first job ...

Janitor at a Storage Facility (very glamorous)

My best moment ...

Publishing my first roleplaying game this year!

My inspiration ...

first my wife, second my late friend Sean, thirdly my family

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Kingdom

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I had a chance to see the Kingdom at the theater on Friday (opening day for a change). It was an amazing, gritty, thought-provoking movie I thought and as such needed some additional thought before I posted my review So the premise is that a terrorist cell (an outgrowth of Al Qaeda led by a Bin Laden inspired bombmaker) hits an outpost of Americans in Saudi Arabia in a spectacular attack. I won't spoil it here, but suffice it to say it was sufficiently violent and organized to cause me to cringe more than a little. The U.S. is asked by the Saudi royals not to put more Americans on the grou...

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