We chanced across this gem of a book (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) a few weeks ago and after reading it–which I highly recommend–we went looking for the award winning short that was mentioned on the sticker.
We found it readily on youtube of all places, and I’ll link it below because it is indeed worth the 15 minutes. Go watch it first. Once you do, the rest of this will might make more sense.
One of the things we consciously try to do with (or for) our children is to not dump our nostalgia or fandoms onto them so they can develop their own affinities. Most of the time, it turns out they end up liking what we like. Other times it goes off in a different direction than you experienced and can open up a whole new world, or worlds.
This is one of those times.
Continue reading Well That’s…FantasticA few weeks ago I had the first dream of my grandfather since he died in 2022. Most of the time when I see a relative who has passed on my lucid dreaming kicks in and we end up talking about them not being alive, but bar none, they’ve always been great visits that I have been glad to have. What makes this one a little different, and worth writing about on the internet is the very context in which it appeared.
Continue reading Nobody Was Faster or A Letter From the DeadContinuing on with the car theme, even if our Count Car is out of commission following some fuel pump failures and fouled plugs.
Continue reading Chitty Chitty Bang BangAll the planning in the world to drop a new post the week the sequel was released failed. I had 36 years to do this. I even had time to collect all the books. But, better late than never, so here goes my two Beetlejuice stories.
Continue reading Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse, BeatleJuiceGrowing up in deep Southeast Texas we didn’t have cable or satellite. Looking back through things these past few weeks put me to thinking about the things we watched. We weren’t exactly a sit and watch television together as a family type with my father working shift-work. There are a few things I do remember though, mostly any National Geographic Special, and I remember seeing more than a few made for tv movies through the years. Maybe it was just the time I was coming up, but it seemed like there were more options than you’d expect for people limited to the big three network tv.
Continue reading Made for T.V.Because the world needs another recorded opinion on a movie that has people threatening the lives of strangers online.
I will apologize for not putting any images in this post which is 100% against what I stand for when I post, but everything I could find online just reinforces how terrible they were with the press releasing and advertising for this film.
TL;DR: The movie is far better than what we’ve seen leaked/been given with trailers. It isn’t your standard Feig/McCarthy potty humor either. Oh, it’s there don’t misinterpret this, it’s just less. All of the worst parts we’ve seen in the trailers and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
Continue reading Ghostbuster 2K16I still haven’t put together all my thoughts on an action figure post yet (nor have I finished enough of my comps readings to make a useful post) so in the interim you get this, which, admittedly, is just an excuse to put all the Bebop and Rocksteady images I have in one place.
Continue reading My MAN! or How a mutant rhino reminded me who I was
Turns out Hugh Hudson has a new film out that focuses on the discovery of the prehistoric cave paintings in Altamira. If you aren’t familiar with the discovery, the Cliff Notes version is an 8 year old girl named Maria led her father Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola to a cave which held amazing paleolithic paintings of bison among other wonders; scientific debates ensue.
Continue reading Prehistory and Paleolithic Pop Culture
