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About Me

Once upon a time there was a little boy who nobody liked. He was weird. And he wasn't very good at making friends. So he watched movies. Lots and lots of movies. He liked movies. Then that boy went to high school where he discovered that not only did the boys not like him, but the girls REALLY didn't like him. And they wouldn't date him. So while other kids were out on dates, he stayed home and watched more movies. Eventually, the people he knew began to come to him with movie questions - who was in this and which movie is that. He found he was very good at that.

So he watched even more movies. And eventually someone asked him to write about them. Then someone else did. And one day Our Hero wound up writing for Ain't-it-Cool News. And the rest is history.

Cargill, AKA Massawyrm, is a professional Film Critic who currently writes for AICN, Film.com and appears in the animated movie review show, Spill.com (as well as its previous incarnation - The Reel Deal.)


Check out scads of The Reel Deal here! And the Official Site here!

Or even better - check out the Reel Deal's new, corporate sponsered incarnation - Spill.com!
Find piles of Massawyrm's AICN reviews here! As well as his reviews while in the Gulag here!

And check out my offical Film.com profile complete with links to dozens of my Film.com stories!

And here's my truly pathetic IMDB profile. Actor? An ACTOR??? But I can't even fucking act!


Oh, and d20 fans, did I mention he wrote a book? Or at least part of one. It's called the Tome of Artifacts and you can buy it at your local FLGS, here at Amazon.com , the digital download version here at Drivethru RPG , or you could simply check out the 6 page demo PDF - which features the first page of one of my proud creations - The Altar of the Bone Citadel.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who finds me funny. You can never have too many of those people around.

My Blog

Cargill, now available on Twitter...

...for now. We'll give this a shot and see how it goes. Lacking the time to blog in any capacity (not to mention, writing 10,000 or so wds a week professionally tends to take it out of ya), I've been ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:39:00 GMT

Cargill? On NPR???

Yup. Got interviewed earlier this week for the NPR show The Brian Park Project about, of all things, Dungeons & Dragons. You can enjoy 8 whole minutes of Cargill-y goodness here. And while you're...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:56:00 GMT

Creative types! Help!!!

Hey guys. Butt-Numb-A-Thon is this weekend, and I'm stuck! Every year I work in tandem with my BNAT Butt-buddy Derek (aka DMANN) on a geek themed t-shirt to wear. But due to circimstances well beyond...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:33:00 GMT

I. Fucking. Hate. People.

A man is suing McDonalds for $10 Million. Why? He had a severe allergic reaction to the cheese he bit into after supposedly asking for no cheese. But here's the part that fucking chaps my ass like an...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:20:00 GMT

My heart breaks. Joel Siegal 1943-2007

If there was one person on this earth personally responsible for me doing what I do for a living today, it would be Joel Siegal. My mother was a huge fan of ABC's Good Morning America for which Siega...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:52:00 GMT

Road Trip Help!

Hey guys, Jess and I have a road trip coming up and I'm filling the laptop with tons of stand up comic albums to pass the time. Nothing passes road time like talk - something that actually requires y...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:03:00 GMT

Eli Roth Needs Your Help!

Long time Acquaintence (and one of us) Eli Roth is in trouble. He's getting his ass kicked because of a god damned insider pirate at Lion's Gate. His film is disappearing from theatres as of Next fri...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:18:00 GMT

It was a busy, red letter week for Cargill

This week was a milestone. Truly one for the books. Here's a Recap. 1) Saw Ratatouille. Started off the week with a special premeire of ratatouille with Patton Oswalt and Janeane Garofolo. Patton rec...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:02:00 GMT

I'm starting to warm up to Fred

I'm officially beginning to get a good feeling about Fred Thompson. He was the first guest on Leno a few moments ago and had a great, noncommittal talk about running for President. Good, friendly stu...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:38:00 GMT

Did I forget to mention that I wrote a book?

Oh by the way. I keep meaning to mention this. I kind of wrote a book. And by that I mean I wrote part of it. It's a D&D d20 suppliment titled The Tome of Artifacts and it hit stores over a mont...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:14:00 GMT