RIP Richard Matheson
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RIP Richard Matheson

Aside from Ray Bradbury--who needless to say was in a class by himself--few authors are as associated in the broad public mind with golden age fantasy and science fiction as Richard Matheson. While there are many authors famous to sci-fi nerds, Matheson wrote novels like I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time and The Incredible…
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Monster of the Day #717
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Monster of the Day #717

  I know we already had a week of Kona not too long ago, but what can I say, I love these covers. Here's a two-fer. Yes, there were enough of these great covers that I can double up today. The writer(s) must have had a taste for unusual menaces. Here are two more…
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Monster of the Day #716
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Monster of the Day #716

Well, this overlapped, but here's the last of the Saturday the 14th monsters. Maybe I'll run more Kona covers the rest of the week. The entire movie's posted on YouTube, by the way. I'll probably burn it to disc tonight. I'm sure it's lame, but what the heck?
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Reminder: Kirk Draut’s show on Discovery next week….
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Reminder: Kirk Draut’s show on Discovery next week….

Kirk Draut, who along with his wife Patty is my perennial Fest host down in Houston (they've attended every Fest we've done since the first one in Austin), works behind and in front of the camera in this pilot for a show based on Gator Pit's Ritch Robin, whose company makes these amazing custom-made…
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Monster of the Day #712
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Monster of the Day #712

So nobody got the gag yesterday. This confirms the findings of the Damien Motd; numerology jokes do not fly at Jabootu. Uh, OK, this will do for today, I guess.
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This is the future of films…

I mean, OK, it's just a short. But look at the production values!! Ten years ago this would have been all but impossible. Where will the next ten years take us? As mainstream studio films grow more and more uninteresting and unsatisfying, I fully expect a revival among independent film making. In a way,…
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