I have been thinking about doing this short for a long time. Horror movies are a niche — they do not get a lot of love. Not from production companies, (they do not give them big budgets) they do not get A-list actors, (lots of little experience/first timers) and they do not get premium advertising. But man is it weird that so many people love them.

It is nice seeing Jason find himself athletically. I don’t know if the NFL is in the future or anything like that, but watching him do well is really great.

So I am as susceptible to nostalgia as the next person. I live right across the road from Tuttle’s Orchard and I was coming home from church today and saw all of the pumpkins in the patch looking ready to be picked. Made me think about the fact that the Oestreichs have not went and picked pumpkins yet and that I need to choose a pumpkin seed recipe and get that all squared away. Then this video showed showed up while I was going through an old hard drive, so I thought I would put it up for the world to see what the world looked like prior to Covid.

Today is Friday, another week closer to Fall Break. But this is not to say it was a bad week. In Film as Literature class we have been studying comedy, so naturally it was a perfect moment to bring out one of the greatest films of all time. The Princess Bride (1987) has been and will likely remain one of my favorite movies. It is an hour and 38 minutes of awesome - eminently quotable and simply a fantastic movie. The movie almost did not get made. The movie was based on William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride, which was considered too quirky to be made into a film for over a decade.

I bought the first book of Gray Man and also took a chance on the book Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life. It was a Pulitzer Prize winner so I figure it couldn’t be all that bad.

Hollywood:  A place where big careers and humility are mutually exclusive.  Where self promotion is the way to what you want.  People are used as steps to your goal and having a conscience is something you have to be rid of as soon as possible.  Wait…am I talking about Hollywood or Washington DC?  Meh, I digress.

Arthur Morgan.  Video game character.  Not even real.  A figment of someone at Rockstar’s imagination,

So, what is the big deal?

It is 1999 around 1am.  You are sitting on your couch watching a movie on your computer that has you totally enthralled.  Trouble is the movie crashes with an error message explaining that the file was corrupted.  (Ahhh, Napster anyone?)  After several attempts to play the file again, you give up dejectedly and try to figure out what to do.

What to do.  Want to be creative – blocked.  What direction to take…is it to be things you are passionate about, or things you are good at already?  Both?  I have this platform and it is not being used for its specified purpose, so then why do I have it?