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(01-08-2026, 11:35 AM)Greg Wrote: The Wrecking Crew. Now with more Morena!

The Kaiser reopens - Merc article, mostly photos

Squirtle was my neighbor's cat. She's been here since we moved in. There have been 7 dogs in the yard during our stay: my two dogs, the late Jingles & Yuki, Romeo, and Luigi's 4 dogs (only Lisa & Bella live one). All of them barked at Squirtle. Squirtle didn't care. She was a literal junkyard cat, rescued by my neighbor, Matt. One tough cat. 

She had been declining. After all, she was well into her teens in human years. 

A few days ago, Matt borrowed our shovel. 

Squirtle now rests under the apple tree.

Truth be told, I only really like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. The rest seem to be trying too hard to be funny.  The documentary comes in two parts both halves coming in at around 90 minutes. The Queen and I watched all of Episode 1 and most of episode 2 last night. The best bits for me were centered around Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. There were some outtakes and BTS that I hadn't seen before that were quite amusing. There is a good line-up of celebrity talking heads to help tell the story.

It's a solid doc without anything too revelatory. Although I didn't know he was married before Anne Bancroft and there are three kids from that marriage only one of which appears on camera. 

The most telling bit for me was the interview with Wilder about working with Brooks. Wilder mentions that Brooks now writes parts for Brooks but when he writes parts for Wilder again, they will work together again.

Time to revel in my Christmas present. We are heading out Wednesday to stay in the Awahnee for two nights. We will just be doing day hikes around the valley.

In order to guarantee we don't see any snow, I put chains on the Starship to make sure the chains fit.

https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...7#pid78077

I have no idea what “fawesome.tv” is, but they are streaming the full Jim Phillips doc online, without ads, here:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10731458/art-...m-phillips



I've never met him, but he lives in Live Oak, down the street from my friend Joc, and the husband and wife that are 2/5ths of the Coffee Zombie Collective. I have a friend that worked at NHS way back in it’s heyday, but I don’t know what he did…I suspect he was one of the grunt teenagers operating the silk screen machines…

You know his art. You know his style. You’ve seen the Santa Cruz logo everywhere… meet the man. He seems like a pretty nice dude. The end credits include a lot of screaming hand tributes including a bruce lee one which I thought was pretty funny. i’d post it here, but I can’t find a copy online.

Recommended if you like underground art, Santa Cruz, or documentary films with lots of interviews. Neil Young has a pretty good chunk of screen time.

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This has been heavily promoted by my Amazon algorithm so I gave is a watch. It's intriguing. There's a lot of discussing of veganism, animal abuse and dietary ethics. The main villains are vegan terrorists. The humanzee and his adopted parents are vegan. The humanzee sets up the classic outsider-in-school paradigm, so popular in anime. He's stoic, and it's unclear if he's a sociopath; he keeps dropping hints. I'm mostly intrigued because I'm curious what the ultimate message is about veganism and animal rights. 

Not D00M recommended. None of those issues are on your radars...

Sly Dunbar

One of the greatest reggae drummers of all

Damon and Affleck (the elder) are at it again. They’re on a special team and their boss gets murdered in the beginning. It opens with all the other team members getting interviewed as part of the investigation, but quickly turns to a last minute, off the clock bust from an anonymous tip. Is Damon, the new boss, a dirty cop? Do he and Affleck hate each other? Oh, the twists and turns…

It was watchable, if not all that believable. Not great, not bad.



—tg