In April it is two years since we adopted our dog Buddy.
He's what we call a delinquent doggie, but makes us
laugh constantly. Watch for Buddy to become a TV star
on a new horror host show! More info coming soon.
. . What do you think of Count Dogula?
4/6/10
Well, I guess one blog a year isn't too horrible... I don't understand how people post stuff every day! Who has that kind of time? We've been super busy working on new books including one of Forry Ackerman's house and collection and a reprint of Monsters, Mutants and Heavenly Creatures, this time in full color. We've also cleaned out the warehouse, and had a huge truck come and shred 7 years of old paperwork. That was amazing. But we're getting too old to life all those book boxes. One printer we used for the Top Dogs book and the first printing of Classic Cliffhangers didn't follow our instructions to box the books in a d ouble walled carton and only 25 pounds. They put 75 books in a flimsy carton and every time we picked one up, it broke and spilled books on my bad leg. We finally had to buy new boxes and repack every book. I wrote a letter to the president, but they didn't bother to reply. What ever happend to customer service? Businesses just don't care. I guess they have so much money, it doens't matter if they piss off customers. Besides, the government will bale them out. Unlike small businesses, we're barely keeping our heads above water. I love how the government gave banks money to lend to small businesses, but the banks refuse to lend the money, even though it is guaranteed by the government. And we know this from personal experience.
We're still trying to sell our new documentary 4-part series Mindight Madness on the history of horror films and FANEX. We were lucky and got releases from all the stars who appeared at FANEX except two who refused. Someday we'll tell you who.
I gave Gary a whole list of gripes, but now I can't remember any except one. Gary likes those entertainment news shows, like Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, etc. And they used to acutally be about entertainment. But these last couple of years all they are about are sex scandals and reality show people. I don't even know who these people are, but I do know I'm sick of them. How is it possible to become so famous for having a slew of kids or screwing around with a married celebrity? And don't you love how those skanks are now giving interviews as the wronged women. They really give women a bad name.And don't you love how these cheating husbands are forced to give a press conference apologizing. They don't owe me an apology, I don't really care what they do. Why does the media think all America is hanging on the edge of their seats wating for more information on Tiger Woods or Jesse James?And what's up withreality shows putting on all those crooked politicians on TV? Isn't that just saying breaking the law is ok as long as they ratings are good? And speaking of ratings... Entertainment Weekly (which used to be a decent little mag to while away a mindless hour, but is now mostly drivel and much smaller) does massive stories on shows like Dancing with the Stars and that bimbo housewives series but think about it... if 25 million people are watching American Idol, that means that 275 million people in the USA AREN'T watching. So why all the press? The last thing I'm saying on reality shows is this... I really how Simon Cowell punches Ryan Seacrest in the face before he leaves American Idol. How does someone with so little talent get so far?...well Seacrest and Larry King.
Do the powers that be really thing people are going to set in their living rooms wearing 3D glasses (that hurt my eyes) to watch hours of TV? I don't even watch movies with 3D.
We just watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hoping I would like it better the second time. I didn't, I still find that script so flawed and marvel at the screenwriter who has the knack of missing the heart of the book he's adapting.
If I sat through 7 years of Lost to find out it's just a Stephen King battle of good vs. evil, I'm going to be really pissed. Have a great summer, (or should that be year). Sue
6/2/09
Boy, I'm really bad at this blog thing. We've been swamped with orders from the sale flyer. Of course when you're selling some books for $5 and mags for $1, you're pretty much losing money, but we are clearing out some space, and I'm so sick of looking at those boxes of Midmars in the warehouse. The FANEX Fest. we did at the Senator Theater was fun, but stressful since the owner (who is filing bankruptcy and the city is taking over) only gave us 8 days to pull it together. He promised he would reimburse us for the newpaper ad and postcards, which were over $800, but we figured he'd rip us off, and we were right. But it was something to see my movie, Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb on that 40' screen, and it didn't suck, I'm kind of proud of that movie. With books sales from the weekend, after losing the $800, we about broke even, which for us is pretty much standard for the course. I think we're better artists than business people.
The FANEX documentaries are moving along, Jeff
Herberger, our editor is working on the final 3. The Hammer DVD
will be out in July. This is the tentative cover:
Back to pulling books, we're hoping to finish our cheer
up book in the next few weeks. I have a great title:
POPCORN PROZAC: MOVIES TO CHEER UP THE RECESSION DEPRESSION
