This is my first VLOG. My video camera is a bit outdated and doesn't have all the bells and whistles that other versions do.

Clips of Tom Franck at several performances of the Comics and Comics show.

This was quite a while ago, but I still use it to motivate me.

The trend of celebrity children's books really needs to end.

A clip of my interview at the season 2 finals of Famecast.

Clip from the finals of the second season of Famecast.

material on energy drinks, costco and Japanese monster movies

This is one of the bigger toyshows in Tokyo and back in 1996, before internet auctions, there was still a good amount of vintage toys to be had. I apologize for seeming unfamiliar with toys that are well-documented now. Japanese toy scholarship was simply very unevolved back then. If you can't see something clearly and want to know what it is, just leave a comment and I'll try and let you know

Before the age of internet auctions, you had to actually go to Japan to get cool Japanese toys. I went for the first time in January 1996. Much less was known about Japanese toy scholarship then, so I had lots of questions that I bugged shopowners with.

A favorite at parties, "The Best of Howard Shore" is a videotape that Mr. Shore sent around in the mid 90s. A truly fascinating look into the psyche of Mr. Shore, this tape has prompted much discussion about what makes him tick.

The now-famous clip of WAFA SULTAN, a Syrian-American psychiatrist who blasted Islamic fundamentalism, was viewed on the internet more than a million times. In this new clip, we learn they weren't her only target.

A Jumbo Machinder commercial that shows an impossibly rare specimen of Garada K7 getting blown up. There are currently only three known surviving specimens of this toy.

This is a short film I made with some friends. It's a parody of those LA Times ads they had before movies played in Los Angeles that showed different aspects of the film business.

Fanboy based material.