Happy Halloween!

 

We grew a three-sisters garden this year, so some corn and beans found their way into the jack-o-lantern too.

Happy Halloween!

Go out and vote on Tuesday.   There's clearly no limit on how scary things will get if we don't stop the ghouls NOW.

Together 21 Years Today

My brain will occasionally mix up "east" and "west", but not "left" and "right".
My wife's brain occasionally swaps "left" and "right", but not "east" and "west". 

That's a pretty cute and accurate illustration of us as a couple.

Together, we can navigate anywhere.

Inner Peace at Cloven Hoof Film Fest

When it rains, it pours!  Inner Peace will also screen at the (free!) Cloven Hoof Film Fest on April 18th.

https://filmfreeway.com/ClovenHoofFilmFest

As ever, we are honored to have been selected and looking forward to the festival!  Late April is shaping up to be a busy and scenic time for Flying Cat Entertainment.  We wouldn't have it any other way!

Update: We are honored to have come home with some awards!  "Best of Fest" is a high honor, "Best Midwest Film" sure feels apt for a cheese story, and we even picked up "Audience Choice"!  Our humble thanks to the wonderful organizers and judges, and the amazing people we met at Cloven Hoof Film Fest!

 

Inner Peace at Zeitgeist's Minnesota Film Festival

We've had to keep this under wraps for over a month now, but I'm pleased to say that Flying Cat Entertainment's 2025 short "Inner Peace" will be showcased at the Zeitgeist Minnesota Film Festival!

The festival takes place April 22nd-26th, 2026 in Duluth, MN.  Tickets go on sale April 1st!

Zeitgeist's Minnesota Film Festival website

 

Our movie will be screened twice!  First during the Animation Shorts block at 5:30pm on Friday April 24, then again as part of the Our Stories Shorts event at 2:35pm, Saturday April 25th.

 

It's an honor to be selected, and we're looking forward to checking out films from our fellow Minnesota filmmakers!

Happy New Year!

Congratulations - you have survived 2025!  ...And good grief, what a year.

In 2025, we lost a lot of structure.  A lot of foundation.  A lot of trust.

But even the most senseless collapses leave in their wake room and reason to build.  To grow.  Puhpowee.

There is a great deal which needs doing.

The biggest, richest few already offer their answer - just do everything through us!  All your time, all your attention, all your money, just give it to us; our one-size-fits-all "solutions" will take care of everything.  Our algorithms, which cannot experience your world, will describe your world for you.

A better answer has been right in front of us, in our own hands, all along.  In fact, it IS our own hands.

When we make and do things ourselves, when we work with each other, when we strengthen our local communities - that's how we get the important work done.  That's how our real needs get addressed.  That's how we express and receive gratitude and appreciation.  That's how we make human business human again.

We know we're better off living and buying and reading and talking locally.  Now, it's time to live it.

Let's build and nurture the foundations and the trust, ourselves.  Together. 

I've started my own business, aimed at working with other small, local businesses.  I'm a software handyman, a Swiss-Army Geek.

If you or someone you know needs a nerd, you know where to find me!  

https://OSwerk.net

Happy Halloween!

It's been a ridiculous year.  No citation needed.  But, some fun stuff happened too, including two cute little pumpkins growing in our garden.  Those punkins have now joined forces to become a jack-o-witch...tern...thing!

The Not-Very-Wicked Witch of the North Planter Box

No Kings

"No Kings" is America's whole deal, on paper.  In practice, "The Rich Do Whatever They Want" has always been the undercurrent.

We're a nation built on land stolen from other people, using enslaved people stolen from their lands.  That's how we got started.  And to this day, any time someone dares to point out that those were and are incredibly crappy things to do, there are loud and angry voices blowing back.  We must "hate America" if we are critical of the racism and kleptocratic elements it has and continues to express.

Capitalism is the nation's only real religion or culture.  Capitalism said it was lucrative and therefore fine to steal land.  Capitalism said it was profitable and therefore fine to own other humans.  What's good for the runaway rich is usually at odds with what is actually good.

In practice, America already has a bunch of feudal kings.  They're in plain sight, right at the top of the stock market.  The rich own us.  Right now, this message lives on a server owned by Google.  (Sorry, "Alphabet".  "Plain sight" is becoming less of a good place to hide, isn't it, Meta?)  Eventually, these richest of the rich will need to steal from each other, but they're not done stealing from us yet.  We still have, on paper, a government where we choose our leaders and decision-makers.

That means we still have the power to say (and act like) something besides money has importance.  We used to have a 90% tax on the richest of the rich.  That alone would be a huge improvement.  If we elect leaders who value humanity more than profit, we could start seeing decisions and laws and systems which protect individuals from corporate sleaze, instead of the other way around.

"No Kings", or "The Rich Do Whatever They Want".  Choose wisely; we only get one.