Hanukah is when Jewish kids learn they’re not like the other kids. No Christmas! We do Hanukah. But it is eight nights, which is fun....

I am almost finished watching season one of Cowboy Bebop on Netflix. Sorry to say, I am having a lot of problems with it. I have a policy...

Arne Starr is a comic book inker—and a very good one—and also an actor, which I didn’t realize until I just looked him up: IMDB, Memory...

Here I am on Wednesday after my Covid booster shot. I got a flu shot in the other arm at the same time. They gave me the cool red...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Here is Vince Guaraldi’s “Thanksgiving Theme” from the Peanuts specials.

Yesterday was November 23rd. And it fell on a Tuesday. This rang a bell because it was on a Tuesday, November 23, 1993—28 years...

Last night I picked up dinner from a very good Indian restaurant here in South Pasadena, Radhika—which happens to be across the street...

I love this demented show. I love the cast, the glamour, the sick humor. I actually didn’t watch it at first. It looked annoying. Done by...

Hi folks, don’t be alarmed, but apparently our neighborhood squirrels have learned how to pick a slice of pizza out of the trash and...

I have been looking forward to the new Cowboy Bebop live-action series possibly more than any other show in recent memory. I love the...

Yesterday I wrote about The Split (Quincy Jones) being down to the last ten (now eight) copies. It is very strange to be talking about...

One of the coolest scores we ever released at Film Score Monthly is down to the last 10 copies at Screen Archives. If you love 1960s/’70s...

Just a quick shout-out today to one of my favorite YouTube channels, Enzo Music, for his lovingly crafted remixes of 1980s film and TV...

One of the earliest FSM albums that I remember putting special attention into was the first CD we did from I Spy, the groundbreaking...

There’s no dignified way to write a begging letter. And I should know, I’ve written a lot of them! Here’s my best attempt from a Screen...

I’ve reached the point of watching so much Narcos that I feel like I can speak fluent Spanish, even though I barely understand a word....

I guess this is as good a time as any to see if anybody wants to watch these silly home movies that my brothers and I made circa 1989–91....

In the 1980s, somehow or other I stumbled across some interesting small-press books about Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I don’t...

I was looking for something “from the archives” to post and it was slow going...until I found a folder of “Pukas” cartoons by Altomari...

Yesterday I tweeted something which, by my standards, went viral. (I don’t have many Twitter followers.) Above is a screenshot, here’s...

UPDATE: Of course, they took it down (pic above is a screen cap). Can’t wait to hear it for real! I love Cowboy Bebop. I am looking...

I am going through a somewhat complicated reckoning with the fact that I’ve spent my whole life enamored with...stuff, for lack of a...

I was looking through the few boxes of VHS tapes I have left to see what I can get rid of, or donate to pals who might have more use for...

Somehow I discovered a YouTube vlogger named Will Jordan, who goes by “The Critical Drinker” (exaggerating his natural Scottish accent)...