My friend Shawn!

It would be remiss of me to not acknowledge the work of my friend Shawn McBee who’s help I’ve had with the construction of this site (and when I say “help” I mean he did absolutely everything) as well him creating the Photoshop program which allows me to do my retro View-Master packets (they’re on the site, take a gander). He’s a great fellow that I met when we both worked on the Stargirl TV show. Shawn was in charge of all the graphic design for the show and did a brilliant job of meeting every challenge the production threw at him. While he continues to do so on many film and TV shows in Atlanta, he graciously spared the time to provide his services, and I remain grateful for all he’s done.

I should add that Shawn has a comic series he’s Kickstartering an issue at a time. It’s called WESTON and features an occult investigator seeking answers to a horrific mystery while also dealing with mysteries of his own past. What makes that take fresh is that the horror is all derived from Scandinavian myth and legend. It’s a super-fun read, and Shawn is a really excellent writer so if you’ve a mind to give his comic a shot, I’d heartily recommend doing so. You can find further Weston details on Shawn’s IG…

 https://www.instagram.com/jedibugs/

 Or here’s a link to it on Amazon…

https://www.amazon.com/Westron-1-Shawn-McBee-ebook/dp/B0FHB2C2WD

 I should add than while he was putting this site together, he had need of placeholder writing and that he supplied it himself. I was touched by what he has to write about the Stargirl TV show and amused that he wrote about Ted Knight too, with me initially a tad puzzled by it until I realized he was referring the Ted Knight the actor, known for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Eight Is Enough.

 I thought I’d add them here too, as I'd hate to have them go unread…

THREE SEASONS OF WONDER

There is a particular pleasure in working on a series that understands sincerity is not the same thing as softness. That was always part of the appeal of Stargirl for me. It wanted to be hopeful, yes, but it also understood that hope matters most when it has to survive difficulty.

Across three seasons we had the chance to build a world that could stretch from bright, heroic adventure to melancholy and menace without feeling like two different shows stitched together. That balance is harder than it looks, and when it works it feels a little miraculous.

Mostly I remember the generosity of the collaborators involved and the simple happiness of returning to those characters again and again. Three seasons is a lovely amount of time to spend in a world. Long enough to know it. Short enough to miss it.

IN HONOR OF TED KNIGHT

Ted Knight had one of those voices and faces that could make exasperation feel elegant. I think that was his gift. He could be vain, pompous, fussy, wounded, self-important, and deeply funny all in the span of a single scene, and somehow you never felt he was merely playing at those things. He was inhabiting them.

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And there we have it. A big thanks to my friend Shawn who you have him to thank for this website and all the annoying retro View-Master packets I’ll eventually post.