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Tonight!!! @sewertour will be presenting clips from crazy VHS tapes in Chicago at Goblin Market - come on by! https://bit.ly/luna-goblin

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PWEETA.org fought for your right to eat your pets in 2007, and its suddenly politically relevant - at the highest levels - in 2024

ChatGPT describes the organization like this:

“PWEETA (People Who Enjoy Eating Tasty Animals) as a pro-meat organization that promotes the enjoyment of meat and criticizes vegetarianism. Its website features various content, including:

A promotional video and banners advocating for meat consumption.

Merchandise like t-shirts and bags with pro-meat slogans.

Answers to questions about the meat industry, including humorous takes on controversial topics like eating pets or exotic animals.

Articles arguing against vegetarianism by comparing eating meat to eating plants and questioning the morality of vegetarianism.

Controversial and provocative statements on cannibalism and the consumption of different animals based on cultural practices.”

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TODAY!!!

Coming to chicago: LUNAMANCER (2023) on VHS!

On Thurs. 9/26, I'll be in the Goblin Market basement presenting our award-winning micro-budget sci-fi fantasy extravaganza like it’s 1999! Why watch it on a 2K widescreen at home when you can see it in a 4x3 square with monaural sound while munching on FREE MOON-SHAPED PANCAKES?

Tix: https://bit.ly/luna-goblin

Learn more at https://lunamancer.com

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Toonstock Returns to San Diego Comic-Con 2024 for a Melodic Celebration of Animation Music!

Get ready to belt out your favorite cartoon tunes! The Archive Guys Podcast is bringing Toonstock, the beloved convention staple dedicated to the music of animation, to a triumphant return for its 10th-anniversary appearance at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. This year's Toonstock promises a harmonious extravaganza packed with unforgettable melodies, engaging activities, and a unique sing-along experience.

Hosted by the dynamic duo of Matt Patterson and Daniel Ferranti and moderated by Gary Miereanu expect a global exploration of cartoon music featuring classic and contemporary gems from the 1960s to the present day, including Thunderbirds Are Go, the legendary Cartoon All-Stars imparting a valuable lesson... and hair metal themes of the 1980s. Then, audience members line up to belt out catchy tunes along with the landmark "Mayhem of the Music Meister" episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. There might even be a prize or two for the most enthusiastic singers!

Sunday, July 28, 2024, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm PDTRoom 5AB - San Diego Convention Center

Link to put it in your comiccon schedule: https://comiccon2024.sched.com/event/1gO8s/the-return-of-toonstock

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due in September

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The End?

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My mother warned me not to go into the video arcades around Times Square in NYC, but Playland always seemed to call to me. There were three different Playland’s in the area, and I think my mom was thinking of the one on 42nd street pictured at the top in 1972, and seen in Midnight Cowboy (1969).

While it didn’t have video games yet, it had a carnival midway called Hubert’s Museum (in the basement) featuring a Flea Circus!

That location closed, but the one on 47th St In 1990 (pictured), had a pretty big selection of games, was very close to where you could still get a passable fake ID, and very few people in cowboy hats hustling outside.

The bottom picture, from a recreation of the 42nd St location for the HBO series The Deuce, looks a bit sleazier and distinctly lacks a flea circus.

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An ad from when the Analog Video Disc (CED) was the Intellivision of Home Entertainment

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Turtle Power

My grandmother (masked) poses with a random woman

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My Julian Sands Story

My first job in LA was as a Production Assistant on the low-budget horror film, Warlock: The Armageddon starring Julian Sands. Assigned to a second unit that didn’t want to spend money for body doubles, various parts of my body got valuable screen time. That's my hand over-enthusiastically pointing to druidic spells in an ancient tome and my skinny torso soaked in red karo syrup being whipped by rubber vines. And when a pulsing amniotic sac shoots from the nether regions of a bloody stuntwoman and blooms into a fully-formed naked Julian Sands, that's my nose bursting through the silicon gel-drenched latex womb. After "acting" in shots like these, I had to wipe myself off with paper towels and get the crew complicated coffee orders.

While I may have been Julian Sands's part-time body double, I’d never spoken directly to him. Then one day, after being hoisted around in a special effect flying harness until my inner thighs wanted to explode, I got my chance. The Assistant Director tasked me with getting Julian from his trailer. Why? No one else would do it because he was being an “asshole.” He pissed the crew off so much, the Wardrobe Assistant was showing off Polaroids of his dirty underpants.

Julian had a big black trailer with a satellite dish fit for a Warlock. I went up the steps a bit nervously and knocked at the door. Nothing. I knocked one more time, and heard him scream, “I SAID, COME IN!!!”

It's dark in the trailer. Julian’s lying down on the couch all the way in the back dressed in his black velvet suit and looks over the rim of a hardcover book. He silently stares at me.

“Uh. Hey, Julian. They, uh - need you for the flying stuff...”

He continues to look at me. Unmoving.

“Uh…”

I realize I’m at a loss for words - and I’m never at a loss for words. His expression remains blank. I don’t even know if he heard or understood what I was saying.

I did the only thing I could think of and started doing a little jig and shouted, “JULIAN SANDS! YOU'RE THE NEXT ACTOR ON STAGE 14! SO, COME ON DOWN!”

As I dance around and hum the theme to The Price Is Right, I hear him start to laugh, slowly at first. Not a human laugh, but a scary full-throated supervillain laugh that echoes from his trailer as I flew back to the sound stage - heart racing.

In an interview with Sands on Vestron Video's Warlock Collection Blu-ray (Recommended - The first film is a banger!) he kind of apologizes for being a dick on the set. Apparently, he was utilizing the “Method” to become the Son of Satan both inside and out, which extended to the crew, making a lot of people miserable. Honestly, the film needed more of the kind of sinister energy he brought to the screen, but hearing him say, decades later, that his working method should not come at the expense of those busting their asses for you was heartening. Now I feel lucky enough to fly in Julian Sands' harness for a short time and make him laugh, at least ONCE.

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Walter Mitty (1947) has the BEST job.

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Los Angeles Premiere of Lunamancer will be at Whammy! on Sunset presented in GLORIOUS VHS - FREE! - on 1/24 at 8pm! This special pan and scan 4x3 presentation is NOT available anywhere else! Reserve your ticket(s) by messaging me here or emailing matt@ooze.com

Also available to watch free (with ads) in the standard 16x9 HD version on Tubi!

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my dog had a day

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The “Wednesday”  TV show’s “Transylchusetts” vibe is creeping me out. The Romanian studio “Jericho” set looks more like a half remembered Warner Bros. Burbank Midwest Street set plopped in the middle of an eastern European field and I keep expecting the Gilmore girls to pop out.

On your next trip to Romania you can experience this vibe in person and eat real American Food! I believe this set is called “Boston” or “American Town” and I would totally go- https://studiourilebuftea.ro/tours/

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sodastreaming killed the fountain experience

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in 1988, when the building across the alley from my apartment was the second tallest building west of the Mississippi (now the 4th), caught on fire and burned for almost four hours, it was the worst skyscraper fire in US history.

In 1991, the event was immortalized by a TV movie starring post six million dollar man Lee Majors, post Bosom Buddy Peter Scolari, and pre Knott’s Landing Lisa Hartman. (the fourth picture of the office in flames - is from that movie!)

The real (and dramatized) fire started late at night, and the sprinkler system was down. The crew thought the fire alarms were malfunctioning and sent a guy up to the 12th floor to check it out - and was killed as the fire swept in as elevator doors opened. 30 people were injured with some stragglers being rescued by copter off the roof.

After this fire, all tall buildings in LA needed to install sprinklers, no matter how old they were.

Thinking about the huge quakes in Turkey and what would happen to my 1949 building, I hit on the idea that the big building next door may be a bigger problem, so after I googled it and this came up, I am now assured my death will probably be immortalized by a future Bravo special.

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My Julian Sands Story

My first job in LA was as a Production Assistant on the low-budget horror film, Warlock: The Armageddon starring Julian Sands. Assigned to a second unit that didn’t want to spend money for body doubles, various parts of my body got valuable screen time. That's my hand over-enthusiastically pointing to druidic spells in an ancient tome and my skinny torso soaked in red karo syrup being whipped by rubber vines. And when a pulsing amniotic sac shoots from the nether regions of a bloody stuntwoman and blooms into a fully-formed naked Julian Sands, that's my nose bursting through the silicon gel-drenched latex womb. After "acting" in shots like these, I had to wipe myself off with paper towels and get the crew complicated coffee orders.

While I may have been Julian Sands's part-time body double, I’d never spoken directly to him. Then one day, after being hoisted around in a special effect flying harness until my inner thighs wanted to explode, I got my chance. The Assistant Director tasked me with getting Julian from his trailer. Why? No one else would do it because he was being an “asshole.” He pissed the crew off so much, the Wardrobe Assistant was showing off Polaroids of his dirty underpants.

Julian had a big black trailer with a satellite dish fit for a Warlock. I went up the steps a bit nervously and knocked at the door. Nothing. I knocked one more time, and heard him scream, “I SAID, COME IN!!!”

It's dark in the trailer. Julian’s lying down on the couch all the way in the back dressed in his black velvet suit and looks over the rim of a hardcover book. He silently stares at me.

“Uh. Hey, Julian. They, uh - need you for the flying stuff...”

He continues to look at me. Unmoving.

“Uh…”

I realize I’m at a loss for words - and I’m never at a loss for words. His expression remains blank. I don’t even know if he heard or understood what I was saying.

I did the only thing I could think of and started doing a little jig and shouted, “JULIAN SANDS! YOU'RE THE NEXT ACTOR ON STAGE 14! SO, COME ON DOWN!”

As I dance around and hum the theme to The Price Is Right, I hear him start to laugh, slowly at first. Not a human laugh, but a scary full-throated supervillain laugh that echoes from his trailer as I flew back to the sound stage - heart racing.

In an interview with Sands on Vestron Video's Warlock Collection Blu-ray (Recommended - The first film is a banger!) he kind of apologizes for being a dick on the set. Apparently, he was utilizing the “Method” to become the Son of Satan both inside and out, which extended to the crew, making a lot of people miserable. Honestly, the film needed more of the kind of sinister energy he brought to the screen, but hearing him say, decades later, that his working method should not come at the expense of those busting their asses for you was heartening. Now I feel lucky enough to fly in Julian Sands' harness for a short time and make him laugh, at least ONCE.