Sept. 1988. Having sold our first screenplay, Mystery Date, in a successful bidding skirmish, Terry and I were now the “Flavor of the Week” in Hollywood. We were flown to L.A. on Orion’s dime, and were now aiming for the stars. Or at least our next deal.
A few weeks back, I was a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, The Flop House. Now, Jason Snell, on my other favorite podcast, The Incomparable, was kind enough to mention this website in a non-sponsored, just-as-a-favor interstitial…
We officially launched the site on Oct. 8th, 2021 (Terry’s birthday). It was great seeing old friends and a new face or two. I gave a quick tour of the site, and shared a story about Terry and me meeting Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel for the first time…
They looked a bit like Terry and me if we were a married couple — and if my facial hair showed up in sunlight. Rocky boomed in his jovial British accent, “There you are! The Mystery Daters.” We smiled, not sure how to take that…
Hey, I’m a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, The Flop House! We talk about Super Mario Bros. It was tons of fun! Click below to listen…
I so look forward to the day when Daley is voted out of office, and each and every one of you cocksuckers is thrown out into the street where you belong, left to wander endlessly, looking for your cars, which unfortunately have been towed…
Our seven-page pitch for Super Mario Bros. and the poster mock-up that Rocky later said got us the job.
This was Terry’s favorite, profiling has-been animal actor Flipper — now a joke in the Hollywood community. He anticipated Bojack Horseman by 25 years.
In 1987, Terry served as Editor in Chief of this April Fool’s parody of Today’s Chicago Woman. It is just as puerile and of-its-time as you might imagine.
“I want to do all the old-people things I see on TV. I want to be set in my ways. I want to repeat myself a lot. Old age is wasted on the elderly.”