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Previously on Work Stories, I wrote about something.   I told all of you about that time that something happened to me that somehow involved me either going to, being at, or leaving from work.   I think I wrote about the time a coworker and I had walked past a murder scene.   I think that was last week’s story. The Work Stories can’t always be good ones so this week I’m going to intentionally give you a dud.   If you don’t want to read a pointless, boring story about something I witnessed at work, don’t read any further than this.   I am guaranteeing you that this is not going to be a good story.   This one is filler, meant to continue to Work Stories for another week.   It’s like that episode of Dragon Ball Z where Goku just stands around building up his spirit bomb and nothing else of note happens.   That’s what this Work Story will be.   A whole post of nothing important. This week’s Work Story isn’t even something that happened to me, but it’s something that I heard ab

Studios and filmmakers are always trying to find new ways to keep audiences coming back to their franchises, or to even come to their movies in the first place.   The marketing for a movie is such an everyday distraction for us movie watchers.   But there are other ways than marketing to get an audience for a movie.   The one aspect that I would like to write about for this week’s post is the idea of characters crossing over into other franchises. The idea of characters appearing in other franchises is something that is commonly done on television.   I could name many more television crossovers than I can film crossovers.   There are many more spin-offs on television than in the movies.   That doesn’t matter, though.   What matters is the crossovers in movies that are meant to get millions of people to pay the eight to twenty dollar price in order to watch the movie in theaters, or on the DVD or blu-ray that they purchase.   If a potential viewer has the knowledge that one of

It’s been another week and that means another few movies have been watched as a part of the third annual Mustache Movie Marathon.   I realized through the first two weeks that I was watching movies featuring mustaches, but I hadn’t yet gone into the regulars of the Mustache Movie Marathons.   Some of the movies in this third week took on some of those usual suspects.   You’ll see what I mean as I go through the movies I watched in the third week of November.   Let’s get this started then. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind This is the second Sam Rockwell movie that I’ve included in the third annual Mustache Movie Marathon, although this one is not included because of Sam Rockwell.   Okay, maybe it is.   I like Sam Rockwell, so I watched the movie.   But he’s not the person with the mustache in this movie.   The person with the mustache is George Clooney. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is about game show extraordinaire Chuck Barris.   It’s kind of a biopic about him, bu