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Composer | Screenwriter | American Doom | Barrier Peaks Survivor | Fuck The Casbah | Terordyne CEO | This Machine Kills Thalmor

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AMERICAN DOOM Podcast
Season One

“A phantasmagoric road trip through the badlands of dark hysteria, frightening comedy, and a flaming testosterone cocktail served at a tiki bar in purgatory.” - Pauline Kael

“Homeland security will be paying you a visit.” - Pamela Bondi

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If you're feeling like a Sunday matinee of Bob Gurr, please join me at The Frida Cinema tomorrow morning at 10:30am for "Bob Gurr: Living By Design. It's all part of the Old Towne Film Festival.
“Bob Gurr: Living By Design” will be screening this coming Sunday (Nov. 9) as part of The Old Towne Film Festival. I will be there, too.

The Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100
Santa Ana, CA 92701
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Tickets on sale at thefridacinema.org/movies/comed...
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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“I’ve got a great marketing plan, we’ll get the dumbest motherfucker in our industry, one that just nobody respects, and we’ll have him say the most asinine thing possible and that will be our pull quote, it’s surefire
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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How many Zoom servers do you think there are with just gigabytes of stored videos of people getting intimate in a very non-businesslike way?

I remember a tape that sports news video guys would trade around w/ nothing but folks in the nosebleeds who didn’t know the field cams had telephoto lenses.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
Gif GIF
Alt: Gif GIF from Oliver Twist showing the boy asking for more food.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My most-liked review on @letterboxd.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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9: "Xuthal of the Dusk" by Robert E. Howard is Conan stumbling into a science fiction city.
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Just had an eerie AI #RPG experience.

I'm GMing a Traveller adventure written in the 1980s, part of which involves exploring an abandoned ship, with lots of dice rolls to see what is inside each room, what condition it's in.

I thought I'd try using LuxChat to do the rolling for me. 1/7
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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I love indie bookstores. So does my daughter. We spent 90 minutes in Antigone Books (Tucson) last week.
Still going strong after 52 years in business. You can tell a good book store by their order selection. The shelves speak for themselves.
October 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I have written a song on a downtuned guitar that is both about mRNA vaccines accidentally improving outcomes for cancer immunotherapy patients, and also, at the same time, a statement of hope for the current state of American politics.

It is called "What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)"
SONG: What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade) | GoST
SONG: "What To Do (On mRNA Immune Checkpoint Blockade)". (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on "People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine", Nature, 22 Oct 2025, as used ...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Four books to get to know me.

#BookSky
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
October 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Fanboy Nation interviewed me and fellow producer Ernie Alonzo about BOB GURR: LIVING BY DESIGN and its upcoming screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival (Oct 19th). Look for a surprise appearance by Bob in this video.
Frank H. Woodward's 'Bob Gurr: Living By Design' Come to NBFF - Interview
YouTube video by FanboyNation
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October 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Come see all the good stuff we kept IN the film on October 19th as part of the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival.
An Outtake from BOB GURR: LIVING BY DESIGN
YouTube video by Frank H. Woodward
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October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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In 10 days, "Bob Gurr: Living By Design" will be at the Newport Beach Film Festival (October 19th). If you haven't seen our film yet, we hope to see you there.

If you have seen it, do us a wee favor and share one of these cover photos with a handy QR code linking to the festival box office.
October 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I don’t get horror prequels
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
*waits patiently for Stuart Margolin and Roddy McDowell cameos*
A look at the new Programme 4 telecast, coming to a candlelit lounge or paneled rumpus room near you!
Coming up on Programme 4: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is BROOKER
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Great list.. I’d add:

Melinda Dillon
Anne Bancroft
Teri Garr
Grace Zabriski
September 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I just recorded a song about how soil microbes affect our emotions and can make us fall in love when we probably wouldn't have and maybe shouldn't have.

It is called "Dirt Poor" and it turned out better than I'd hoped.

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SONG: Dirt Poor | GoST
A song based on "Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and social bonds", PhysOrg, 26 August 2025,
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September 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Jirel isn't a barbarian - warrior-woman, yes, but a technically civilized one. Aside from Robert E. Howard's Conan (and later Dark Agnes, which she read in manuscript), she might have read Talbot Mundy's TROS OF SAMOTHRACE and just possibly Arthur D. Howden Smith's Swain the Viking series.
Curious what barbarians there might have been in fiction before she came along - what stories she was likely reading.
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The trick I've found to be the most useful when designing a story's cast is not just to work them up in silhouette (ensuring that they read differently at a foundational level), but to start with literal shapes. You can more easily spot the means to differentiate similar components (like armor).
September 27, 2023 at 2:29 PM
I have mixed feelings about this video. As a Levolor blinds salesman, I was hounded by agents of the National Curtain Closure Council. They’d leave notes on my windshield that said “Better stay in.” It really messed with my body Thetans. #HailXenu
September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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In the U.S., we still had public executions just 89 years ago.

Civilization is a coat of paint.
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Tickets are now on sale for "Bob Gurr: Living By Design" at The Newport Beach Film Festival on October 19th!!

newportbeachff2025.eventive.org/films/689ba1...
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM