The T-1000
Friday, April 5th, 2013
It wasn’t long ago that I put up another posting about a menacing liquid metal killer from the Terminator franchise, and now I’m ready for one more. This one was the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgement Day, introducing the world to one of the scariest villains you’d ever hope to meet – a killer who could take the shape of anyone or anything, usually something sharp and capable of piercing a victim’s body at will. It was also one of the most advanced special effects coup to date when the film came out in 1991. I for one was ecstatic to get the chance to meet the actor who played him, having missed at least one opportunity in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
There are certain days in my life where I feel like I am unabashedly raking in every drop of fun that can satiate my wide varieties of interests. Monday, January 14, 2013, just so happened to be one of those days. I had already spent a very enjoyable weekend at the Hollywood Show meeting scads of celebrities, visited Disneyland twice, attended the memorial service of Our Ganger Peggy Ahern, eaten one of the Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, visited the Grammy Museum, and hung out on Hollywood Boulevard. It would seem that this had been a great weekend without any extras, but there was more to see… more to do… more to experience, as many of my interests intertwined into a few further adventures with my friend Bob. 
I’m not sure exactly how or when it happened, but at some point somehow some way, I got sucked into the whole slasher flick phenomenon, particularly when it came to the three biggest (by my estimation) ‘classic’ franchises: Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween. It’s perhaps the many horror film conventions I’ve attended, which started out as a way of meeting celebrities who had done ‘other’ noteworthy films, that have gotten me hooked. Eventually the urge to collect all of the Jasons and Michael Myers was followed by a tendency to start picking up even the minor stars/victims. 