Hey all, it's 3 PM on Mardi Gras and I'm not even drunk! What more do you need to indicate that all is not well?
It's a weird one this year, folks. Not only is everything cancelled due to COVID but we've got this unnatural cold snap keeping everybody indoors – last I checked it was 28 degrees. My neighborhood is a gho...
2021-02-16 21:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Filming today was kind of a Beowulf & Grendel style disaster but we got great stuff.
2021-02-14 07:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I've been chatting with Karl from InRangeTV about doing a joint Q&A video later this month. We decided that we would each solicit questions from our patrons. A few of our common interests include New Orleans history, historical firearms, the Old West, civil rights history, and the ethics (or lack thereof) of cont...
2021-02-03 05:15:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted the first draft of this opening sequence of Frozen '50s Man on Patreon way back in August of last year, and it's finally happening.
This was originally conceived as something in the Witchfinder General format – a historical character reacting to modern things. Then the concept evolved into a mo...
2021-01-30 02:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In other news, things are starting to really ramp up for Frozen '50s Man – stay tuned for a detailed update!
2021-01-27 03:03:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry it's been a while since my last update! This past week I've been quarantining because I had close contact with someone who came down with 'rona symptoms a couple days later. That delayed production on some of the bigger projects I had lined up, but I feel fine and I'm pretty sure I'm healthy – just waiting on test res...
2021-01-13 21:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas (if you celebrate it) despite the hardships of this year. I can't tell you how appreciative I am of your continued financial support, given... well... *gestures broadly at everything.* And to those who became patrons after the latest Checkmate Lincolnites video, welcome!<...
2020-12-27 21:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostIn anticipation for the new Checkmate Lincolnites (which should be up for early access for $10 patrons tonight), may I present "The 1861 Overture," a new piece of music written for the show by my good friend and stalwart composer Dillon DeRosa. Some time ago I asked him to write a new theme for Checkmate Lincolnites, expectin...
2020-12-22 20:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to memorize this comment by tomorrow.
2020-12-17 14:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I recently completed the script for the new Checkmate Lincolnites episode, and while finding comments to respond to, I noticed several people citing a website called the Abbeville Institute as a source. I did some digging and it turns out they have a pretty sordid past, including some early ties with a white supremac...
2020-12-14 22:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A still from the new sponsor ad, which is nearly complete.
Now I just have to edit the actual video.
2020-12-07 06:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a super cool sponsor ad coming this week.
2020-12-06 07:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It'll be featured in the Checkmate Lincolnites Christmas special, which is going to be about black Confederates (or lack thereof).
Checkmate... geddit?
U.S. Grant is the Yankee queen, which is fitting because as a young lieutenant he dressed in drag to play Desdemona in a production of Othello put on by some soldi...
2020-12-01 20:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Hope you're staying sane this election week. After the Dracula video, several commenters mentioned they wanted to see this match-up, so to distract myself from the news yesterday, I wrote a short screenplay called THE WITCHFINDER GENERAL VS. DRACULA. It'll probably never get made, so the full script is in an attachme...
2020-11-04 19:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, Hurricane Zeta – a high end Cat 2 at landfall – hit my area pretty bad last night. I'm completely fine, but it knocked out most of the city's power, including mine, and they're saying it'll be several days before it's restored.
Thankfully, I was able to impose on some friends who had electricity, so I could...
2020-10-29 21:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night, I filmed the to-camera bits of my Dracula Halloween special. It was a twenty page script (not including some cinematic interludes and a sponsor ad, which are already completed), which will probably translate to about thirty minutes of video.
It took from 11PM to 6:30AM to shoot, but wasn't too bad, ...
2020-10-27 08:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Shooting a Q&A video today!
2020-10-20 20:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hard at work on the Halloween special.
2020-10-17 08:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Leif Erikson Day is nearly here again, so I made another video about the Norse exploration of North America, an endlessly fascinating topic to me.
It didn't turn out as spectacularly as I had hoped - it was a stressful on-location shoot and I think my delivery suffered, to the detriment of the video. So I apologize if t...
2020-10-08 16:00:39 +0000 UTC View Post
