OK, it took forever, but I finally mastered at least showing YouTube videos on Discord for our watch parties. The secret? You can’t use the Discord app (??), you have to use the website. The only downside is that once you’re in there it takes up the full screen so you can’t get to Gmail to send out email invites. I’ll probably send them out and then say, “Sign into Discord and I’ll start the chat in a minute.” Otherwise, pretty good, and no one is mourning Kast.
So we watched the adorable old (1948) Unknown Island, filmed in cheap, probably two-strip color. It’s basically a cheap King Kong rip-off, which is fine. It’s got a solid cast (Barton MacLane is great as the Wolf Larsen-esque skipper), a nice short running time and, oh, yeah, lots of adorable dinosaurs. Also Ray “Crash” Corrigan breaks out his ape suit, but it’s not an ape, it’s (as we’re told) a giant sloth. Because yes, that’s what those look like. Anyway, if you couldn’t make the show, check out the film on YouTube because it’s pretty fun.
Back to T-Fest coverage tomorrow.
