Steve Martin, Supergenius.
(NOTE: You have to say “Supergenius” the way Wile E. Coyote does in Operation Rabbit, his first speaking appearance alongside Bugs Bunny, for the word to have its intended impact.) Continue Reading →
Category Archives: movies
Variety: it’s what’s missing.
A variety show is, in its most basic form, a show with a regular host and a variety of “acts” often musical, comedy, magic, and animal acts. Its roots are Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas
Enjoy the LOG, until YouTube deletes it…. and then, may I suggest bopping over to the Internet Archive for a viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? Yeah, you know Continue Reading →
Festive Films
When December rolls around, there are a few things you can count on: ABC will at some point air Charlie Brown’s Christmas, there will be fiddle-playing specials on the CBC, Continue Reading →
Recommended Media
It’s just so easy these days to hit “share” and send things out to the wilds of social media that I have been remiss in sharing these wonderful, crazy things. Continue Reading →
Out from the gloom
A quick glance through our movie collection and you’ll notice a lot of dark films. Some are really dark — horror films, thrillers, and what we now call the “child endangerment Continue Reading →
Sunday again?
The past week flew by, partly because my sleep patterns got thrown out of sync. Never mind though, I reset by Friday morning because even though I was working from Continue Reading →
Screenwriter’s eye
When I awoke this morning, I had been dreaming of the mess my van was in after trying to hastily back out of a parking space but instead entangling it Continue Reading →