On Christmas Eve, Jonas was feeling a little overwhelmed by 20+ largely unfamiliar (to him) family members doing Christmasy stuff. He retreated to an upstairs room, and I went to check on him. While we were talking, he mentioned wanting to check out some of the older Godzilla movies, so I pulled out my phone… Read More 100 Films I Haven’t Seen: ‘King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1962)
Jeez, I fell off on blogging again. Not as big a gap as last time. Sorry about that. In October, I decided to try to watch 31 horror films. It wasn’t exactly a film every day. Some days I watched more than one. I watched one film twice, but on different days and with different… Read More 31 spooky films (almost) for the 31 days of October
“I’m listening to the music with no fear“You can hear it too if you’re sincere.” In a deleted scene in “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace have a discussion about The Beatles and Elvis Presley. “There’s only two kinds of people in the world: Elvis people and Beatles people. Now Beatles people can like… Read More Superman: Secret Punk
The episode starts off with Joel doing a little banter and introducing the five members of the cast (including himself). I figured I would do the same with the six titles of “Danger on Tiki Island.” It was filmed under the title “Orgy of Blood,” but originally released as “The Brides of Blood Island,” and… Read More MSTing Links: Cinematic Titanic Episode 10, ‘Danger on Tiki Island’
I’ve been really into Universal Monsters off and on since I was a kid. My parents would rent 8 mm shorts of the monsters films when I was a young (We rented movies for projectors; every joint in my body creaked as I typed that), and I had countless monster toys. I still have some… Read More 100 Films I haven’t Seen: ‘The Wolfman’ (2010)
When I was a kid, I had a vision of Rambo in my head. It was the Rambo from “Rambo III,” sweaty, shirtless, telling people who were fighting the Taliban “I’m your worst nightmare.” It was a Rambo who had a cartoon and action figures, neither of which my mom would let me watch/purchase. She… Read More 100 Films I haven’t seen: ‘First Blood’
The episode starts with Joel introducing Trace, Josh, Mary Jo, and Frank and giving a bit of backstory about them, before launching into the riffing. I don’t know quite how to sum up this movie. Weird monsters show up in a small town, along with a strange, mustachioed man (who is totally NOT an alien)… Read More MSTing Links: Cinematic Titanic Episode 9, ‘The Alien Factor’
Back in 2017, I started doing write-ups about the long defunct Cinematic Titanic, a riffing project that the reunited Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Josh Weinstein, and Mary Jo Pehl. It started as a studio project, but quickly became a touring show, and transitioned to DVDs of shows recorded in front of a live… Read More MSTing Links: Transmission incoming
I met a lot of people through my time as a reporter. Some became acquaintances. Some became Facebook friends. A few became in-person friends. One – Steve Martin (not THAT Steve Martin) – became a best friend. It all started at The Lift. In February of 2005 The Lift started hosting iPod Mondays. People put… Read More I met my best friend in a Spider-Man bathroom
It’s been a bit since my last update in this. The holidays happened, plus my new job got busy, so blogging fell by the wayside. Some drinking has still been happening, I just need to catch up with the writing. I’m going to handle this post a bit like the beer festival posts from last… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 201-215: The Return
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