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.
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!
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!
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.
If you or someone you know needs a nerd, you know where to find me!
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!
"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.
Early this year, Kim and I completed "Inner Peace", an animated short film. It's a movie that means a lot to us, and it's been selected to play in the Minnesota Genre Film Expo!
The show is on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM CDT at the AMC Rosedale 14. You can get tickets and check out the rest of the festival here:
https://mngfe.eventive.org/films/68b0ee6ae7f329ef85dd1bfe
Since it's a festival, they're selling full exposition passes and ticket bundles first. Starting September 22nd, tickets for individual shows will be available. (Our show contains a feature-length comedy, our short, and another live-action short.)
We'll also release our movie online, after its theatrical debut. We hope you enjoy it!
