Guys:

Jesus Fitzpatrick Christ, what is this blog coming to? I take a few days off to relax,
then I come back and the comments section is blown the f*** up like a holiday
ham and the amount of pure, uncut gibberish is at alarming, if not toxic levels. It
was like an episode of Romper Room, reimagined as a pie fight-slash-pissing match!

Even the trolls and the snipers took the holiday season off! C'MON!

Kids, what gives? Listen. The comments that you're reading, that make aboslutely no
sense and have the structural integrity of a straw shack, IGNORE. I know who this person
is. They have serious, serious issues with me and with the world at large and don't require
any additional provocation to go batsh*t insane. They're one of the founding fathers and
a longtime resident of the city of Batsh*t. They are Dean Emmeritus as the School of
Whack-A-Doo, so whatever you do, DON'T ENGAGE.

Doubler...it aint worth it man. I'd tell you if it was and trust me...IT AIN'T. You cannot win
against this person because normal applications of logic, reason and sanity are rejected
outright.

So, deep cleansing breath...I'm hoping this post doesn't prompt another nonsensical
outburst but I won't hold that breath.

I hope everybody had a fantastic x-mas and is preparing for a glorious new year.

I will be back, bright and early, in '08.

JC

This strike has been especially tough on my kids...they grow up fast enough
as it is! We'll pull through though. This family is made of stronger stuff.

HA! C'mon! We gotta laugh a little or we'll cry a lot.

You guys have a fantastic holiday season. My sincerest wishes and glad tidings go out to you and
yours. Have a wonderful new year as well. I might be checking in a little less periodically
until after the new year but I might try to squeeze a few entries in.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

JC

Sorry about the file not uploading. It's forever amateur hour with me and this stuff.

Kids:

Off to Argentina, right after the new year to interview Pablo's son and
lay the ground work for KILLING PABLO. Have loads of contacts and
folks on the ground and my feeling is we will wind up shooting a majority
of KP in and around Buenos Aires and then travel to Colombia for a few
weeks to get the crucial stuff. We've been extended every courtesy by the Colombian
government and current President Alvaro Uribe and also given guarantees as to our
safety and well being. HOWEVER, there's not a completion bond company in the
world that will touch us if we choose to shoot KILLING PABLO entirely in Colombia.
It's far too dangerous on multiple fronts, not the least of which is 'El Grande Gringo'
aka, yours truly, traipsing around like some moron, trying to do a movie about
'El Doctor' himself. I figure that's actually the perfect cover. Nobody would ever think
this ridiculous white boy would be dumb enough to pull a stunt like that, so I'm
hoping (praying) that this bit of 'camo' will suffice.

Not sure where the other, horrible Pablo project is at the moment. I know they're
getting turned down by a lot of folks...memo to aspiring screenwriters, if you want
to know how NOT to write a screenplay, pick up that piece of sh*t and use it as
reverse tutelage. It not only does a disservice to the craft of writing, it mocks one
of the greatest figures in Latin American history with a non-existent, wholly
fictionalized Butch and Sundance angle involving Pablo and his brother Roberto.
It's laughably lame.

Good luck chumps. And it doesn't matter if you get out of the gate six months earlier
than me. I will have an announcement after the new year that will absolutely break your
hearts and kill whatever middling credibility you have...and you deserve that heartbreak,
trying to push a sh*tty, insultingly bad Pablo pic into production against mine and being
nasty and conniving and devious about it.

I said in yesterday's post that 'War is War and that declaration seems obvious by now...'

I'll let that same sentiment ride here.

JC