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I’m heading down to Austin this weekend to check out the last couple of days of SXSW. I haven’t been to the fest in years. Heard it’s a madhouse from the locals, but I need to get out of Dallas for a day or so. I’ll bring my camera and get some snaps in and…

Decided to give the ol’ site a little facelift since moving to Google’s dedicated servers. I must admit I was a little afraid of change but what the hey, sometimes it’s nice to move things around. As you might notice there are some new features onboard, including some streaming news feeds and expanded archive functions….

Since Blogger is forcing their “heritage users” to migrate to their blogspot site, I’m a migrating my web page…but unfortunately I’ve run into a few issues that will take some ironing out. All of the links have been broken and I’m working on a solution. Stay tuned.

German DVD company Koch Media — famous for their reverent collection of Spaghetti Westerns — have issued one of the greatest SWs on DVD for the first time. Yes, I’m talking about Sergio Corbucci‘s excellent 1968 effort THE MERCENARY starring Franco Nero, Tony Musante and Jack Palance. I ordered this PAL disc from Amazon.de about…

Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) — 16mm

A snowstorm dumped over a foot of snow on Dallas this past week. The picture on the right was taken this past Thursday morning. More snow was coming but I ended up at work that day and the photo only captured a little bit of the snow. Unfortunately all that white stuff felled tree branches…

I’ve been so lazy. Haven’t updated this thing in…months! Let’s see. What have I been up to? OK, first thing’s first. For anyone out there who might be interested, DO NOT buy one of those cheap ass turkey fryers from Lowe’s or Home Depot. THEY DO NOT WORK. I’m not talking, “Oh, it burned my…

Vogue Picture Records were a series of 78 rpm music discs produced between 1946 and 1947 by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan. Each 10-inch (as well as an occasional 12-inch) disc featured a colorful illustration sandwiched between the vinyl grooves. The limited production run as well as the visual appeal has generated a small cult…