Faux Spring Filmmaking

At St. E testing and I have named my robot Johnny Five. Some of you will get this.

Welcome to Cincinnati Baseball Historical Review! It's alive! For over 20 yrs as a historian/filmmaker, I've built up a research archive that I'm looking forward to sharing with you! Subscribe if ya can! open.substack.com/pub/cincybas...

It's mid-February. Baseball is almost here. Bust-A-Move.

The new Cincinnati Baseball Historical Review debuts this week. Think of it as a digital magazine museum, a place to learn, share and get nostalgic about a tradition that no other city has. It's different here. And I know like me, you've always been behind the #Reds

Every time the Airbnb commercial comes on during the Olympics, and I hear Golden Slumbers by the Beatles, I think of my dad. He would blast Abbey Road on an 8 track in the station wagon while we waited for Mom to get done shopping.

This film has been so much fun and educational to put together. Much left to do...but some really cool surprises in store! Stay tuned! And remember...you can help the cause here! gofund.me/b3d861bfd

The tradition of baseball is important to me. So is telling stories and sharing the tradition that makes Cincinnati baseball unique. I won't have bobbleheads to give away, but I will have stories, tidbits, facts...and a lot of history. Coming soon.

35 years ago, my brother Chris, the late Steve Kajawa and myself, recorded this song live, one take, onto a cassette recorder. My bro wrote it as a Valentine's gift for the girl he was seeing at the time. youtu.be/5nDQFuBUSCs?...

Happy Day of the Valentine.

Guinness and Miami. A winning combination.

The bleachers at Crosley Field. Rain delay. 1966.

My little bro rocking his @CincyShirts WKRP tee! #CincyShirts

Happy Wear Your Cincy Shirt Day! This is one of my faves…Riverfront Scoreboard style! Show us your @cincyshirts #CincyShirts

Ladies and Gents, boys and girls, Welcome to Cincinnati Gardens for Royals basketball action! I am thrilled to announce that Royals in the Queen City: The Story of the Cincinnati Royals premieres in the fall! And you can help in finishing the film! gofund.me/c81901732

165 years ago today, Lincoln spent his 52nd birthday in the Queen City. You can read about it in my article from The Queen City Historical Review here! I've set it to FREE for all. open.substack.com/pub/queencit...

Tonight, we finish a big edit on a little film, drink Guinness and watch the F1 movie.

After the first wrecking ball hit Crosley Field, neighborhood kids were allowed to grab some bricks as a memento. Today, adults with military grade backpacks would be swarming the corner of Findlay & Western, with one finger on their Ebay app.

🎵The sun is up, the sky is blue. It’s beautiful and so are you. 🎵

Last year, I produced a special podcast on the homecoming of Jr. Today, marks the 26th anniv. of that memorable day. #Reds open.spotify.com/episode/4hwu...

This week, for paid subscribers of The Times Star: ¡Brillante! Of Ewoks And Halftime Shows open.substack.com/pub/thetimes...

The Royals teaser and announcement for my doc comes this week. The journey to get to this moment could be its own doc. #RoyalsInTheQueenCity

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

Watch out for Imperial probe droids. They are everywhere these days.

A performance of art, culture, love, and understanding, by a man speaking/singing a language that only 13.5% of the country understands, won a key battle in the war against the American Fascist Movement. 2026 may not be that bad after all.

brillante

My new go to image.

2026 started out pretty abysmal for a country already drowning in Lake Abysmal. But Feb. has brought us a few life boats...including Team USA athletes not sitting behind a podium saying. "I'm just a dumb jock, me not know nothin' bout dem politics." Power to the people. Right on.

When I was hired to coach at the 1996 UK summer basketball camp, they were selling team issued gear to the coaches. I picked up a pair of Wayne Turner practice shorts. 90s baggy was a real thing my friends. #BBN

I named my new world wide web newsletter, magazine thingy The Times-Star after the unique, afternoon Cincinnati newspaper that did things a tad different. Plus, they had a really cool sign in the 1920s that adorned their offices. Here is the introductory post. open.substack.com/pub/thetimes...

Greetings! I had some log in issues. But I'm back! Thought Elon was stalking me for a minute there... But nonetheless! I have a new thingy out called The Times-Star. It's a little of this and a little of that. Subscribe, if it so pleases you! thetimesstar.substack.com

8 years ago, the little boy that used to doodle Star Wars storyboards in his notebooks...got to see one of his pieces at a Star Wars film world premiere. (Kelly Marie Tran as Rose lower right) and it still makes me want to play with my Star Wars action figures.

Cincinnati. Sixth Street Market House as seen through alley in 1938. If I was shooting a 1930s mystery noir 1938, this is my opening shot, slowly panning down from ringing bell to see a body in the alley. Jeeves! Fetch me my time machine!

During the war, Cincinnati had a "Hospitality House" (A mini-USO) built at Fountain Square.

The Miller Boys. Christmas 1984. Kings Island.

Mark Twain Riverboat cigar and an Old Fashioned. Or in other words, Tuesday night at Cam’s.

The Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club, in this inclination, will never, ever again sign a big time free agent. Low to mid tier, low to mid risk will be the status quo as it has been for decades. The motto is be competitive, not be a champion. And it is what it is.

Two weeks before the premiere of White Christmas at Keith's Theater in Cincinnati on Oct 28, 1954, Rosemary Clooney sang songs from the film on WKRC Radio.

For subscribers to The Queen City Historical Review...Tri-Staters mourned the death of John Lennon, 45 years ago. open.substack.com/pub/queencit...

Pearl Harbor in Cincinnati and NKY youtu.be/VUsC5BMr7GY?...

Ladies and gents…meet Jefferson Lincoln Miller. He rescued me yesterday.

10 years ago, I began producing a series of short 5 minute films on WWII in Cincinnati/NKY. I was originally set to produce 6 EP but the investor pulled out due to personal issues. I'd like to finish them one day. Here's Episode 1. youtu.be/VUsC5BMr7GY?...

One 6X great grandfather was at the crossing of the Delaware, another fought at Kings Mountain, another was a Minuteman at Lexington, another fought at the Sugarfoot Massacre. Tonight, they all watch their history with their great grandson. @KenBurns @PBS #AmericanRevolution

It is absolutely coffee o’clock.

A good writing day.

9 years ago today, my best friend rescued me. I'd give anything to be getting a cheeseburger with you, or to sing that song I made up: Who's got big ears and eyes of brown, Linkity Pinkity Poo Who turns that frown upside down, Linkity Pinkity Poo Happy Gotcha Day. I miss you.

Every #VeteransDay I try and listen to a few of Roosevelt’s wartime Fireside Chats through the old Crosley. It provides me perspective.

My 7x great-grandfather Thomas Beeman was in his 60s when he was a Lexington Minuteman/ Pvt. 13th Connecticut Reg. during the Revolutionary War. There is of course no photo of him, but I used his grandson as an inspiration to sketch him. When I speak out, I speak for him too.

*whispers loudly... Listen to the Esquire!