David Macpherson explores an hour long episode of Scooby Doo. This tale deals with Cass Elliot owning a haunted candy factory. Only Scooby and friends can save the day. This book examines aspects of the show, the need for guest stars in a Saturday morning cartoon and the joy and pain of limited animation. Mama Cass's Golden Caramel Bar is a funny, thorough exploration of something that was never meant to be closely examined.

Sometimes a book about a film can be a comprehensive and diligent study of the movie. Other times, a book about film is no more than a dumb dare. This is one of those. David Macpherson, writer of obscure old pop culture, got a box set of the Inner Sanctum movies. He decided to watch them and write a book about the process. Just to make it more interesting, he decided to do the whole thing while drinking. Didn't we call this dumb? We weren't lying. The...

He is seeing the movie Casablanca in the theater. It is the first movie he sees in a theater since the Covid shut-down. This is a meditation on film and movie going. It is a love letter to Casablanca, as well as other movies. There are angels. There are pickpockets. There are always angels and pickpockets. The Long Weekend Review is a new journal where each issue allows a writer to create whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed...