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I recently made a “cruising for burgers” trek out to Hollywood to check out my favorite haunts like Hollywood Book & Poster, the newstand on Cahuenga, and the few used record stores still in existence. I was very bummed when I hit the netherworlds section of Melrose to browse through Mondo Video A Go-Go, only [...]

Wow… I’m getting wildly nostalgic twice in one month.
Shortly after his death, I revisited memories of watching “Playboy” Buddy Rose in action.
I read about the passing of “The Golden Greek” John Tolos this past Friday, and my favorite childhood TV memories returned. It was 1972, and while clicking through the way-cool regional shows like Seymour’s [...]

After reading Vandal’s book reviews I decided I wanted to play too.  Throughout the past eight years of faith-based initiatives and school boards trying to put Jesus in the science classroom, I have mollified myself with a great deal of nonfiction reading.  Here are a few highlights:
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
We all [...]

Anybody here ever catch the PBS series American Experience? Awesome series of documentaries ranging on every U.S. historical phenomenon under the sun. The episode that recently caught my eye was on the Grand Dame of Pentecostal preaching, Aimee Semple McPherson, a household name in her day, and a name too overlooked in the present.
If you [...]

Yes, it’s been since early in the month since I posted anything. Last week was probably my most wipe-out chemo week, and I slept through most of it! Very surreal, I would wake up from a lengthy slumber, feel refreshed & revved-up to go, and then, within an hour….. exhausted again! I felt like a [...]

Yes, Halloween approaches. Time for Jack O’Lanterns, zombie movies, and, of course, candy corn. Alas, whilst candy corn may, in some rare cases, serve as dentures for some wise individuals, in too many cases eating it in abundance turns your teeth from strong vise-like grips to cavity strung molehills.
So what can I do? Not much. [...]

What constitutes a classic B-Movie? Tricky subject, especially when taking into consideration there can be an even bigger debate over what constitutes a B-Movie.
There are the B-Movies that are so horrid that you sit slack-jawed that the images even made it to celluloid. Then you have the B-Movies that are low budget, made with serious [...]