Who the bananas has time to blog on their own site this time of year? In between tying off the big holiday rush and jamming out my vanity projects, any non-compulsory work falls behind in priority after my dedicated #GenX slacker lifestyle.
Yeah, right. Actually, folks, in the content marketing / online blogging business, I type all day and all night until I fall asleep with my beak on the keyboard typing “zzzzzz” and then my adorable wife drags me to bed, from whence I spring into action hours later to gargle espresso and run back to the keyboard. How can you turn down extra money this time of year?
Video Review Debut: Boom! (1968)
When last we joined my escapades, I was as amazed as everyone else to have pulled off my first video review for 366 Weird Movies, with Legacy of Satan. Well, hold your horses, because I videoed again this month with a video review of Boom! (yes, it’s spelled with an exclamation point, like Yahoo!) (1968), Liz Taylor and Rich Burton.
Because those 2 movies will totally have fan overlap, right? Don’t leave now, I have done much more than this in the past month, after the jump.
I was drawn to Boom! with fascination once I learned cult movie director John Waters considered this to be one of his favorite movies. I can kinda see the point, but even John Waters admits his affection for the movie is ironic. I wasn’t too hard on the movie, I don’t think.
Because I Googled this and scoured movie discussion boards high and wide and found *NO* mention of this anywhere, I’ll reiterate this mystery in text.
There are Easter Island statues in the background of the set of Boom! They’re too obviously shown to be unintentional. You can see these in several shots while Taylor and Burton gasp their hammy dramatic lines outdoors. What are the statues doing there? Were they special for the movie, which was filmed on location in the island of Sardinia, Italy? Anybody know, flag me down on the street and explain it to me, will you?
Anyway, I had a blast and so did Giles Edwards, a creator with whom I have had several successful collaborations with now.
What Else the Gang Has Been Up To…
Which by the way, we wrapped production on the spook-ridden podcast fiction work Average Joe Travels the California Inscape. Myself, and accomplished bizarro and horror author Amy M. Vaughn, played round-robin on this along with Giles Edwards, who pitched in writing a couple eps.
That name again is Amy M. Vaughn, whose short story was recently released as part of a print anthology, a delightful collection simply titled Fingers : A Bizarro Fiction Anthology. Her story is “Meet the Fingers.” and I’m not spoiling a word of it except to say that it is the product of Vaughn’s wild roller-coaster imagination. I love it when I get to brush elbows with greatness!
UPDATE: Giles just whacked off another short clip:
Homeless: is it right for you?https://t.co/VIWeSRIVUQ
— Giles Edwards (@gilesforyou) December 11, 2021
Another acquaintance of mine wrote a whole book, The Cannabis Advocate : A Portrait of Maryann Loncar. She, natch, is not one of my fiction buddies, but another cannabis legalization advocate. It heads off my holiday cannabis gift list I wrote for this other gig:
Fun With Drugs
On my cannabis blogging gig, it’s been a crazy busy 2 months with the growing cannabis industry just mushrooming every year. Let’s knock it all out in a row:
- The Dab Connection Holiday Gift Guide 2021 – Lots of awesome products here for every shade of stoner, most of it reviewed and approved by the Dab Connection staff
- Guess Which Five Countries Have Rec-Legal Weed?
- 420 Friendly Relationships – A little glossary entry to help people understand the facts of dating a marijuana user (be their motivation medical or recreational)
- Cannabis and Culture : We Need To Talk About This Flag – In the worst way!
- Does Cannabis Actually Enhance Creativity? – Trying to pin down actual research, the scientific word on whether cannabis enhances creativity
And yeah, I really am going full throttle on the cannabis sphere. In fact, I may have an offer to branch out to another site this month, but we’re peeking way ahead there.
Hey, I know a lot of you follow just because you love my rollicking cannabis writing. I get fan mail all the time, love yah all! But sometimes we get a less appreciative reader:
We get these clowns in this business all the time. As a legalized cannabis advocacy site which seeks to serve the consumer and speak out for public health, we routinely call out shams and scams. That makes enemies. As you can see, some of them are Internet Tough Guys. Color them blue.
I am the Hippest Music Blogger Ever
That’s why I write posts like Cartoonist Robert Crumb : Vintage Music Hipster.
And That Time the FBI Went After John Lennon – Apropos of the Beatles documentary squirting out the streams of Disney+ this month.
Are you keeping up? We’re still talking about work I have completed within the past month! Yes, I do sleep, in between thrashing out work like a demon possessed.
And – for my knowledge – the first-ever attempt to dissect the legendary Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody” within the space of a single blog post. They said it couldn’t be done. I said it could. Nobody asked if it should be done.
For My Closing Number : A Post About Tax Law!
Yeah, I write about tax law too! Wanna make something of it? Actually, the legal team at TRP (Tax resolution Professionals) handles the legal knowledge, and I go write it up so it sounds sane to average taxpayer citizens.
If that were possible. At least as sane as United States tax law can sound. So anyway, here’s how to keep up with quarterly IRS Estimated Tax Payments, a topic which will not apply to 99% of you, but for people with a substantial tax bill every year.
Nothing But Incoherent Babbling From Here On Down
I have gotten to that point in my freelance career where it’s impossible to keep up with myself. Projects go by in such a blur, I don’t remember half of them. After a while I get paranoid, like maybe, did I go off and produce a Broadway musical and forget about it???
Writers out there, some of them ask “Is it even possible to earn a living with just writing?” The answer is yes, but it’s all so hustle-hustle-hustle that it becomes less of an art and feels more like slinging Big Macs out the window at McDonald’s.
Oh yeah, it’s almost Christmas, so here’s an IMGUR gallery of vintage toys and board games, and one more bit of news is that I’m reluctantly playing MTG Arena on mobile as a strictly free player, watching the company that never should have owned MTG shove itself up its own ass. Sidelined from that, it’s my unknown gallery of MTG card art.
There, I blogged all over myself. Maybe I’ll get some time in here closer to the holidays.
