36 years ago this week (October 29th, to be precise) saw the release of legendary director Billy Wilder‘s grandest production — The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The movie, intended as a “road show” extravaganza costing the then princely sum of $10 million, turned out to be the director’s biggest flop, grossing only $1.5 million…

Busy couple of weeks. Got my car broken into AGAIN. This time they busted out the window and took my prescription sunglasses. Nice. Went to the State Fair of Texas twice…once as part of a work-mandated trip. Hey, they bought the tickets and gave me a shitload of coupons. Biggest disappointment: the much talked about…

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Picked up a copy of the new Easy Star All-Stars album, Radiodread, this weekend on a trip to Austin. The CD is a track-by-track, reggae version of Radiohead‘s OK Computer from the NYC crew who brought you Dub Side of the Moon — a track-by-track, reggae version of Pink Floyd‘s Dark Side of the Moon….

Wired has a list of the Best Public Domain Movies. Nice to see that one of my faves, Detour the sleazy, Edgar Ulmer-directed Noir from 1945 made the list at number one. I really like the Fleischer Superman cartoons from the early ’40s as well. We’ll have to agree to disagree that Santa Claus Conquers…

Here’s the best thing I’ve seen all week.

You know you’re in Texas when parents of students complain to the principal about a field trip to the local museum resulting in their precious, innocent babies being subjected to — *gasp* — NUDE ART!!! Of course the school board was understanding with the veteran art teacher over his apparent “lack of judgement.” Nah…just kidding,…

My car’s battery died after I parked in the downtown garage that my company pays for. Totally flat. I had to get Tiffany to drive me up to Auto Zone and buy a new one, drive back to the garage and install it before it got dark. It wasn’t easy and the job is still…

Not much to report this week…except that I’m starting a new job and MOVING this weekend!! We got a new place out in Oak Cliff — a gigantic two-bedroom bungalow off of Zang and directly across the street from the boarding house Lee Harvey Oswald was living in when he shot JFK. Yes, that is…

I took this picture of the burning towers with a Polaroid from the roof of my apartment on Henry Street in Brooklyn. About 30 minutes later our neigborhood was completely enveloped in a thick, dark cloud of debris. I still have pieces of paper from the WTC that flew over the East River and landed…