Here’s the first chapter of my new novel, Squirrel Eyes. It’d be pretty goofy for me to pretend I’m doing anything other than trying to sell copies of the book, so — if you dig this chapter, please consider buying Squirrel Eyes. Right now it’s available for Amazon’s Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and as an ePub file you …
Classic Rock Sunday – Nick Gilder
I first became aware of Nick Gilder when Hot Child in the City broke in 1978, and I must admit, me and my pals were among the sad bunch that thought the singer was a chick — at least until I saw Nick perform the song on TV. Amazingly enough, judging from the comments on some of his videos on …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
My Favorite Movie I’ve seen hundreds of movies. Hundreds of hundreds. Good movies, bad movies, far too many indifferent movies, and a (relatively) few great movies. When you’re talking great movies, when it comes down to, say, listing the ten greatest, it’s pretty hard to separate the ten best from the thirty best. In the end it all comes down …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURES
Pulp Magazine Friday Time to fire up the wayback machine and go even further back into the paleolithic (before they even had television!) and take a look at what may not have been the best magazine ever, but is my all-time favorite, WEIRD TALES. Yes, there was a lot of flotsam and jetsam in there (especially in the early issues) …
My All-Time Favorite Movie
Don here: From the moment I first saw it, my favorite movie ever has been Don Coscarelli’s whimsically surreal nightmare, PHANTASM. In 1981, my brother Rock ‘n Roll Tim purchased a monstrous VCR that I later came to know was a 3/4″ Umatic consumer deck. It was a top loader, opened by a large sliding knob, and when that top …
Scary, Life Size MONSTER GHOST
When I was a kid, I saw this ad in a comic book and sent away for a “Life Size” (what kind of non-sense does that make?) Monster Ghost. The promise that it OBEYS YOUR COMMANDS was the real hook for me. If I had been a little older, I might have wondered if the Monster Ghost had a sister, …
My All-Time Favorite Movie
Scott here: A lot of people who know me would probably never guess this — but yeah, my all-time favorite movie is The Graduate (1967). Directed by Mike Nichols, screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, based on the novel by Charles Webb. Featuring Dustin Hoffman in a star-making role, the amazing Anne Bancroft as the infamous Mrs. Robinson, and …
Cool Actor of the Week: John Saxon
This week’s Cool Actor is one of the coolest, Carmine Orrico of Brooklyn, NY, better known as John Saxon. In a career spanning an incredible seven decades he’s gone toe to toe with Bruce Lee and Freddy Krueger, guest starred on just about every cop and private eye show of the 70’s and 80’s and starred in some of the …
Naschy Blogathon: The Numbers
The Vicar of VHS tallies up all the numbers from last week’s Paul Naschy Blogathon, which he and The Duke of DVD sponsored at their fine website, Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies. I know that Tanzi, John Jos. Miller and I really enjoyed participating — and speaking for myself, I’m extremely pleased to have finally entered the world of Naschy. …
Bacon Salt
I bought some of this yesterday (Original flavor), and I’m just so excited about it I wanted to post this photo and link to the Bacon Salt website.
The Charlton Story
Thanks to Facebook, I stumbled across a great website called The Charlton Story, devoted entirely to Charlton Comics. MyKal, the man behind the site, posts good quality scans from the Charlton classics, ranging from The Phantom to Career Girl Romance to Ghostly Haunts and Blue Beetle. Some of you may remember that it was DC Comics acquiring a bunch of …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
Son of the Black Mass Triple-Header It’s time for the long-awaited review of the second through fourth movies in the mid/late 1960’s series, THE SON OF THE BLACK MASS (or, as they’re known in the US, THE SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH) staring ill-fated Raizo Ichikawa as the nihilistic ronin Kyoshiro Nemuri, who wanders through late Tokugawa Japan (circa 1825 – …
Gor (1987)
While I’ve never read any of John Norman’s Gor books, I was always vaguely intrigued by them since other Sword & Sorcery fans I knew frowned on them for their overtly sexual approach to the genre and Norman’s controversial attitudes as to the place of women in society. Obviously I’m in no position to speak on the books themselves, but …
Classic Rock Sunday – The Kinks
We’re getting all Anglophile for the weekend, and who better for a mellow Sunday than The Kinks, who literally wrote the musical manifestation of sitting on the porch with a Pimm’s cup, Sunny Afternoon: The Kinks were something of an anomaly; while most of the late 60’s and early 70’s rock scene was preoccupied with drugs and anti-establishment protest songs, …