I was talking to an old-timer at the bar tonight and he said "That Hitler. He was something else."

I want to make a film about Satan's hairpiece finding its way onto a man's head and causing him all forms of misery. I would call it Hell Toupee. You're welcome.

My budget was written on the assumption I get paid two times a month, but I actually get paid every two weeks, regardless of the month. This means that every several months, I get a paycheck entirely outside and superfluous to my budget. October is one such month. I am torn. Either I can dump the bulk of this check into my savings account, ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot recently about superheroes and the deconstruction thereof (with the "recent" releases of Watchmen and The Dark Knight, who can blame me? Especially since I burned off a lot of my hard-boiled deconstructionism, despite never finishing the self-aware-comic-book-investigator story "The Last Back Issue"). As a result, I'm ( Read more... )

It's about damn time.

And, as you might imagine, it isn't very good. Had it been made in 1986 and featured more ninjas, it might be a cult classic, but as it is, it's just sort of shitty and in desperate need of a map and a pagodaful of ninjas.

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Popeye's strong to the finish and he claims it's because he eats his spinach, but I think it's because he double-bags it.

Here are two very short stories that I wrote this afternoon that I will never ever be able to sell anywhere. One is essentially a dream I had; the other is not.

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I found the following rant along with a video from The Insider about Inglourious Basterds. I'm really curious about this person's worldview.

"Quentin Tarantino, a eurasian liar professing to be 'part-American', which we Americans know fully he is NOT as we do not do, is finding his sales rounds for this movie to be impossible. He may be able to ( Read more... )

No, not the classic '70s British spookfest, but rather the shitty Nicholas Cage remake. Alok watched this with me, so the notes are behemothic in length and I'm including the whole kit and kaboodle. Enjoy.
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