The Bats Have Left the Bell Tower

This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.

It's funny when my day job and my side hustle overlap. I get asked to be on a lot of searches because I have a good eye for talent, even if I am bad at other things.  One thing I do on searches is google the names of finalists to see if anybody has said or done something bad that's been left lying around on the internet (and I have found a surprise or two, from time to time). 

But suddenly I'm finding out a lot of people have been in b-movies.  Here's the trailer for one you can rent on Amazon Prime right now but this one seems lost to the ages. 

I think a lot of people like to be around the excitement of the movie business, It can be an absolute grind, though, which is why I think it's funny that viewers think filmmakers set out to make "intentionally bad" movies. I tell anyone who asks, don't start a movie you don't want to live with for at least a year.  It's so hard, so ridiculously hard, to make any movie, I can't see any reason why somebody would want to make a bad one.

I was on a podcast last Friday where I talk a ton about filmmaking, and a surprising number of people have already watched it; you can check it out here if you missed it.

Kind of puttering around on writing, but I am proud of a two-part story I did for the Weekly Spooky podcast, Calamity Jane vs Dracula.  After writing Calamity Jane's Revenge (now free on Tubi), I had a dream I wrote this and was in a movie lobby waiting for it to start.  I've thought a lot about that dream over the years and felt it was time to bring it to crazy reality.  

A few things percolating and I hope I can report back soon.  Thanks for sticking around.