I will not be online tonight as I am migrating to a new a machine.

I selected last night’s film based on a couple of different criteria, firstly that it was a shorter film, just over 90 minutes, second that it was not too serious nor too funny but something that struck just the right balance for my mood, and thirdly  I had not watched this film is quite some time so it was due for a screening.

The Return Of The Living Dead is a small low budget zombie movie that has had one clear and lasting impact on the Zombie genre and that is the incorporation of Brain Eating. Not generally known is that this film is a direct sequel to 1968’s Night of The Living Dead, subject of an earlier Sunday Night Movie here. Romero’s partner and co-screenwriter for that classic and far influencing movie, John Russo, had rights to make a sequel just as George A. Romero. Romero famously went off and created in 1979 Dawn of The Dead the archetypal zombie apocalypse movie, a film copies and referenced today more than 30 years later. Russo first crafted a serious script for his sequel but when Dan O’Bannon was tapped to directed O’Bannon thought it better to avoid directly ‘stepping on romero’s toes’ and to instead make a comedic sequel. Of course, being Dan O’Bannon one of the principle forces responsible for Alien, this was not going to be a friendly feel good comedy. O’Bannon rewrote Russo’s script and crafted a unique movie thought one yet unmistakably stamped with’s its period.

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Because I worked half a day of OT at my day job today and I’m too tired and wrung out for blogging.

Not a big post here. I still feel that Public sector unions are a very different beast from Private Sector unions and there is considerable question as to their ultimate utility to the republic.

That said, I would favor that the governor’s proposal be defeated in Wisconsin.

Since he has excempted politically favorable unions from the legilation this is unequal and appears to be mostly politically motivated. Break all the public sector unions, or none of them, not just the ones who supported the opposition in the last election.

Got back late from the Mysterious Galaxy Writer’s Meeting. I really like this writers’ group and I think we’re starting to find our stride.

However due ot the late hour this is all the posting I will do.

I most likely will not be posting much today as I am having yet another Arthritis flare. Catch everyone tomorrow.

My fingers have hardly recovered, so until tomorrow,  ‘Love, Luck, and Lollipops.’

I have serious editing and writing to do tonight on Love and Loyalty so I may not get to my Sunday Night Movie feature until tomorrow.