Darn It! I missed B-Fest again!

Ken Begg, a high school friend, is the unofficial historian of an annual 24-hour marathon of b-movies: B-Fest. Every year I plan to go and every year I remember it too late! Darn it!

Ken and I went to a lot of movies in our high school days. Particularly memorable for me was the Woody Allen film fest in which I won second place in the Woody Allen look-alike contest.

But I missed B-Fest (again!) and will have to settle for reading Ken's diary of B-Fest 2008. He's been at this for years and has diaries for 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. (Hey, Ken. What happened to 2005, 2006 and 2007? Surely you didn't miss B-Fest.)

Ken was interviewed in a podcast about B-Fest here. (It's a 2005 interview and it gives an old URL for Ken's blog and web site. The correct URL is http://www.jabootu.net.)

Next year for sure!

Update: Yes, the figure in the lower right of that B-Fest 2008 poster is the titular monster from The She-Creature (1956), in which Frank Jenks plays "Detective Sergeant."

Update #2: The adjective "titular" means that the name or identity of the character is also the title of the film. The she-creature is in the film The She-Creature. Some of you have filthy minds.

The Funniest Blog

Help support the funny by going here right now and voting for the funniest blog. I'll be voting for The Sneeze.

The candidates:

• Violent Acres
• The Dilbert Blog
• I Can Has Cheezburger?
• Waiter Rant
• Overheard in New York
• The Sneeze

There's a write-in option, too, but why bother typing when the obvious winner is The Sneeze?

Update: I visited each blog and charted the funny. Here are my results, ready for peer review:



Update #2: Polls are now closed, the results are in and the voters got it pretty much right:



Overheard in New York is more funny than the poll indicates and I Can Has Cheezburger? isn't as played out as the voters think it is, but the voters weren't off by much regarding the other candidates. It's not fair that Violent Acres was even on the list because it was obviously doomed from the start. (Insert Dennis Kucinich joke here.)

"You're going to be a huggable Galactus?"

"You're going to be a huggable Galactus?"
   - My blog buddy, The Monarch,
   upon hearing that I'd chosen cotton
   and fleece as the primary materials
   for my Galactus costume.

Stay tuned for more details as we anticipate...

My Dinner with Andre the Giant

Writer guy, former college roommate and all-around good person Daryl Gregory is "trying out this blog thing." His blog, My Dinner with Andre the Giant, is at http://darylgregory.com/wordpress/.