The Terrible Catsafterme

I wouldn’t have known who Sid Haig was if it weren’t for director Quentin Tarantino, that brought Sid Haig back into a mainstream film in 1997 with the film Jackie Brown. This was mostly in homage to the numerous Blaxploitation films he had starred in with Pam Grier under the direction of Jack Hill (ie. The Big Doll House, Coffy, and Foxy Brown). Tarantino had chosen to star Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, and Sid Haig’s presence as a judge gave a further nod to their films together in the 60’s and 70’s. Tarentino would utilize him again in Kill Bill Volume 2. Read the rest of this entry »

After fiddling around for what seemed like an eternity waiting for and trying to find the photos that I had paid to have taken with some celebrities of the Wizard World Comic Con on Saturday, August 13, 2011, my friend Jason and I were finally ready to get moving to the next event for the evening. Jason whilst making a trip to the car to charge his phone, had discovered that it was now raining – which put a bit of a damp damper on this event – an evening at U.S. Cellular Field to watch the White Sox play the Kansas City Royals. Read the rest of this entry »

At last…at long last, I present to you…Deb and Hilly. It was some twenty-five years in the making – as I entered the planning stages, plotted, pined and longed, and finally encountered these two teenage vixens who represented the geek’s unattainable ideals, only to be conquered and won over by geeks like me. Yes, I’m referring of course to the two classmates of Wyatt and Gary in the epic teenage 80’s film Weird Science. Read the rest of this entry »