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    a manatee encounters glass  

    Zodiac cipher cracked   Zodiac was a serial killer in the San Fransisco area in the late ’60s who sent encrypted messages to law enforcement and the media. Zodiac was more or less the bad guy in the original Dirty Harry movie with Clint Eastwood, one of several movies about Zodiac.  

  Previous        Sucio Sanchez   Geronimo / Sucio Sanchez vs. Iron Chef All this has the theatrics of the original Iron Chef show. There is an Asian Master of Ceremonies (MC) who narrates at least the introduction and also does the final judging. He speaks in some inscrutable Asian language. The protagonists are introduced one at … Read more →

  Previous        Sucio Sanchez        Next   Geronimo / Sucio Sanchez vs. Santos Geronimo is contentedly eating a ham and cheese sandwich. There is a doggy bag with the Sam ‘n’ Ella’s logo on it. Let this roll on a bit. The phone rings. “Si.” “Badoglio. Amerigo Vespucci.” He is conversing with a scorpion named Santos who is … Read more →

  Previous        Sucio Sanchez        Next   Geronimo / Sucio Sanchez vs. Cecil Geronimo sits in a library reading a book. This is all about timing, and a bit of subtlety. Make this uneventful scene go on until the viewer loses patience, then let it go on a bit longer. Actually it’s not entirely uneventful. There’s a little … Read more →

  Previous        Sucio Sanchez        Next   Geronimo / Sucio Sanchez vs. Gorilla Filmmaker A close shot, freeze frame, of the blue skinned and befanged Lizard Man of Venus standing there for no apparent reason. Boof! He takes a fist to the face. Or is it better to show Geronimo instead, and show the new characters in turn? … Read more →

  Previous        Sucio Sanchez        Next   Geronimo / Sucio Sanchez vs. Winnie the Shit     This song is playing. A car comes into Winnipeg. A sign saying “Winnipeg” is shown. Winnie the Shit is so short that he can hardly see over the dashboard. Winnie subtly moves to the music, tapping his fingers, nodding his head, … Read more →

  Sucio Sanchez        Next   Geronimo vs. Pierre     Geronio encounters his most implacable foe (“Eemplacablo!”), the rock in front of U.of W. How does one get into a fight with a rock? Option1: Classic, straightforward confrontation with his old foe, including speech, and reaction shots. You don’t get this in the other episodes. There … Read more →

  This is a script I sent to the 3 in Q people. I’ll post it as half a dozen blog posts, beginning with some frayed and fragmentary material and ending with Sucio Sanchez vs. Iron Chef.   Next   Geronimo Geronimo is a Mexican-style lucha wrestler with the hoarse Mexican accent who always wears … Read more →

     If you are interested in a knitted version of an especially ugly pig, you can get it here.  

     Unless you’ve been living under a snowbank you know that Winnipeg – and Manitoba as a whole – is getting a new NHL team, after the Winnipeg Jets left in 1996.  Since I had a day off and it’s in my area I took part in that news conference/celebration outside the Forks, even though … Read more →

  At work when the client sends me e-mails the program just says, “Does not compute” and the e-mails don’t get to me.  Nobody else has this problem, just me. At your workplace you probably have a scan card so you can beep your way into the building.  I used mine for a long time, until … Read more →