Art Cokey died Friday at the age of 88.  I was a big Gumby fan as a kid.  Raises glass...

They are, just not the ones you think.  Maybe I'm gruesome but I check out the deaths page in Wikipedia and on the 20th Larry Miller, not the comedian, and Christopher Nolan, not the director, died.

Castro Theatre honored Donald Westlake by showing 2 movies tonight based on a couple Richard Stark novels.  First one was Point Blank, one of my favorite movies and I jumped at the chance to see it at the big screen.  The second movie was The Outfit and the movie schedule made it sound like it was going to be an awesome movie, it is there job, but ( Read more... )

Saw Charlie Hunter for the first time in years, since he moved to New York.  Scott Amendola's 40 birthday at Cafe Du Nord.  Fun show.  Before they started we were sitting at the only table we could find, be the pool table.  Some guy asked us if we could move for a second because he had to make a shot, he said he was only asking because it was the 8 ( Read more... )

'nuff said.

While at what I call the "rude bookstore" to my wife today I was told they didn't want me looking at my blackberry.  I told them I wasn't making a call, I was looking over my list of authors to make sure I had everything I wanted and they said I needed to go outside to do that.  I said "Are you telling me I can't look at my shopping list, which I ( Read more... )

Bob Wilkins, host of Creature Features, passed away yesterday.  I used to watch his show most Saturday nights on channel 3, the NBC affiliate at the time, in Sacramento.  He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease the last few years and had retired to Reno.  There was a booth selling compilation DVD's of his shows at Comic con last year with ( Read more... )

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list and make a post to your journal, marking the ones you have seen.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
() Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
() Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
() Fight Club
() ( Read more... )

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times: Sleuth. (1972 version)

2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in a theater: 2001.

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie: Kim Cattrell when I was WAY younger, after ST:Vi, not anymore though.  i'm more into directors and writers than actors

4. Name an actor that ( Read more... )

OK, maybe I'm a jerk for saying this but Claudia changing her mind about wanting to go to her companies Christmas Party, we didn't go, made me happy.  And we had dinner at Tommy's Joynt, one of my favorite places to eat even if it is only a hofbrau.

But that happiness was wiped out when I found out about Majel Barrett Roddenberry's passing...