August 19, 2024: Recent Yes/No’s – Best and Worst!

BEST: Revani WORST: Cheese bacon potato pie  

August 18, 2024: Sharky Sunday!

Rare video of Sharky actually playing with a toy.... Sharky enjoys some mackerel... Here's the kicker... Bicycle... It's like he's trying to tell us something...but what?

August 17, 2024: The Twilight rewatch continues with season 2, episodes 17-20!

Season 2, Episode 17, "Twenty Two" This episode was first broadcast February 10, 1961. Rod Serling drew his inspiration for this episode from "The Bus Conductor" by E.F. Benson which also inspired a segment in the horror film anthology Dead of Night. He was also partly inspired by a newspaper article about a construction worker…

August 16, 2024: Cookie monster movie review – Talk to Me!

Monster not a fan of seances. Once, me go to place where everyone gather, turn off lights and get very quiet. Monster’s fur rise on neck and me could feel evil energy in room as we wait for spirit to show up. Waiting in darkness. Waiting in silence. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting so long Monster tink…

August 15, 2024: Fourth round of script notes!

Thanks for the fourth draft of your script. Apologies for the delay in responding, but we were addressing an issue on the set of our new movie shooting in the Philippines, a biopic of Don Santiago De Los Santos, the famed 19th century Filipino of short stature. Despite the fact he was only 2 feet,…

August 14, 2024: Amazing Covers!

A few that caught my eye this week... Werewolf By Night: Red Band #1 - cover art by Jeff Dekal X-Men #1 - cover art by John Tyler Christopher X-Men #2 - cover art by J. Scott Campbell DC vs Vampires: World War V #1 - cover art by Steve Beach Red Sonja: Empire of…

August 13, 2024: Our Twilight Zone rewatch continues with season 2, episodes 13-16!

Season 2, Episode 13, "Back There" This episode was first broadcast January 13, 1961. Rod Serlihg originally conceived this story as an hour long episode called “Afterwards” that he submitted to Armstrong Circle Theatre, the only one hour anthology airing at the time, but was rejected. His attempts to get it accepted as a special…

August 12, 2024: The Twilight Zone rewatch continues with season 2, episodes 9-12!

Season 2, Episode 9, "The Trouble with Templeton" This episode originally aired December 9, 1960. This episode went through two previous titles, "What Do You Hear" and "The Strange Debut", before settling on "The Trouble with Templeton". This was the first pitch from an outsider (besides Charles Beaumont) that the show purchased. Despite welcoming unsolicited…

August 11, 2024: Sharky Sunday!

Sharky doing a little impromptu piano-playing... Boycotting walking... The ear wiggle - Where's mom going? Like to be touched...by mom! Letting her know he loves it! Treat time for dad! Lights out!

August 10, 2024: Recent Yes/No’s – Best and Worst!

BEST: Sake Milkshake WORST: Watermelon Feta Sandwich And you?

August 9, 2024: Third Round of Script Notes!

Thanks for the third draft of your script. I realize you must be thinking: “Why so many notes? This is Hollywood after all. Most of the stuff we put out is crap!” And while that may have been true of late, we’ve discovered that audiences have caught on to us and stopped watching. As a…

August 8, 2024: Cookie Monster movie review – A Quiet Place: Day One!

Dis be a movie about a cat who demonstrate quick-tinking, courage, and strong will-to-survive during alien invasion of Earth. Cat taking bus, just minding own bizness, when aliens attack! Dey hunt by sound so cat very careful. He not meow. He not make noise. He walk around very light on his paws. Humans, meanwhile, clunk around,…

August 6, 2024: The Twilight Zone rewatch continues with season 2, episodes 5-8!

Season 2, Episode 5 "The Howling Man" Initial telecast November 28, 1960. This was the first episode of the show's second season not written by Rod Serling. "The Howling Man" was a Charles Beaumont adaptation of his own short story of the same name originally published in the November 1959 issue of Rogue magazine. In…

August 5, 2024: Sharky’s hospital visit!

We were just finishing up our final walk of the evening last night when Sharky suddenly reacted to some invisible something, literally jumping a good foot in the air and - presumably - landing awkwardly.  He could not longer put any weight on his left back paw so Akemi carried him home.  Once we were…

August 4, 2024: Sharky Sunday!

According to Pug Nation of L.A., Sharky used to always park himself by the speakers at the rescue and take in the music.  We notice the same thing when we go out for a walk.  He will always stop by a speaker and seemingly get into the music. At his most relaxed when hanging with…