Captian's Log The Keeper’s Fare 9 Aug 2022 Over the next few weeks, we visited the theatre often. Gin kept trying to find any papers that would give us an idea of the year the movie came out.…
Captian's Log The Keeper’s Fare 8 Aug 2022 The poster, somewhat worse for age, did little but whet Gin's curiosity. The title itself was so ambiguous, I remember the many debates we had over its meaning, and this…
Captian's Log The Keeper’s Fare 7 Aug 20226 Aug 2022 The old marquee is what started it all. It advertised a movie neither of us had seen. In fact, nobody seemed to know anything about the title. Gin was a…
Captian's Log The Keeper’s Fare 6 Aug 2022 You see, he had me hold the ladder. Gin was never very popular, not that he cared; we weren't exactly close, but I was probably the closest thing he had…
Captian's Log The Keeper’s Fare 5 Aug 2022 The theatre was closed. It had been closed longer than Gin could remember. Since his parents and he'd moved here, obviously, but how long before that? He could never get…
Captian's Log On the Need for Horror 31 Mar 2022 Why are my favorite "horror" movies really just comedies? What's wrong with me? In other news, I've been sick. I think it's allergies, but they're killer this year. I've been…
Captian's Log The Batman | First Thoughts 4 Mar 2022 Saw The Batman today. Loved it. I felt that the ending didn't quite work somehow. The idea it was portraying made sense, but there was something lost after the main…
Captian's Log From the Archives: On Poetry 15 Jan 2022 There is a Charles Bronson film titled Telefon. It is most of what you would expect from a Charles Bronson film. It's a little silly, a little fun, a bit…
Captian's Log I Purge Hell From Myself . . . 6 Mar 2021 I had a line from a corny old movie floating in my mind, "But I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!" I was…
Captian's Log Halloween Plans From Outerspace 9 Oct 2020 Anyone else getting psyched for Halloween? I've been wondering how to celebrate it this year. I don't really have any plans. I bought a pair of funny glasses. I plan…