Ain’t Nothin’ Like The Real Thing

Last week the major film studios announced that they are finally embracing digital technology over the more traditional and more expensive celluloid method. We’ve seen a bevy of films, including “Once Upon A Time in Mexico” and “Sin City”, that capably demonstrated what cinematic magic can be spun with digital technology.
“If God could do the [...]

The Obligatory Jennifer Connelly Pic For The Weekend

Here you go.

Friday Short Story Offering: "Bogart Sleeps Here"

“But I don’t write poetry!” Trace protested.
Marcel lit a cigarette and smiled at Trace through a curl of smoke.
“That’s the theme of the next issue. If you want in, you have to contribute a poem.”
“Shit.”
The only reason Trace contributed anything at all to Kidnap was to expand his portfolio. Kidnap’s detractors – and they were [...]

A Little Time Out For Lori Scheirer

It’s refreshing to log into my user stats and not see a user from Allentown, PA, lurking for four and a half hours daily. I’m referring, of course, to Lori Scheirer, the gleefully demented woman who tried to convince me that she was a witness to the 1981 Wonderland murders, albeit from the vantage point [...]

Cocaine Overdoses in the Looney Bin

As someone who deals with more than his share fair of lunatics in L.A. and beyond, I have always bemoaned the fact that Ronald Reagan, both as Governor of the state of California and as President of the United States, impacted the mental health care system like no other politician ever dared. Reagan closed a [...]

April Gets Queer Duck

Judging from Monday’s entry at aprilwinchell.com, the multi-talented writer, radio personality, and voice-over artist is anxious to break free from the Disney ties that bind:
A few weeks ago, I told you that I auditioned for The Queer Duck Movie.
I really wanted to do this movie, because I never seem to do the cool cartoons. I [...]