Telly Tubby

The Festivals section of the website gets a little love today in the form of four Telly Awards! Honoring the year’s best in film, television and advertising, the Telly Awards are voted upon by a round table of industry professionals. Reviewing the 14,000 entries for 2008, they saw fit to bestow THE FUTURE IS CALLING with two Silver Telly Awards – their highest honor – in the...

A Fine Whine

I’m typically a pretty “glass half full” kind of guy, especially when we’re talking about glasses of wine, but I have to say that my opinion of the reds available here in Europe has diminished pretty radically in the last…say…day or so. It all started with yesterday’s trip to my local Tesco – think Target with a dash of communism – where I was helpless to resist...

Into The Lion’s Den

Assembling Voltron-style with fellow crew member/roommate team JoAnne and Shannon (JoAnnon) – who are, as you may recall, survivors of Team Bone Church ’08 – Bill and I decided it was high time to execute our long-gestating plan to invade Germany. Figuring that we’ve seen just about every WWII movie ever made and that turnabout is fair play, we boarded the legendary 178 from...