Month: January 2009

Star Trek, the fragrance?

Trekmovie.com has news of a merchandising blitz planned around Star Trek in anticipation of the forthcoming reboot/prequel/sequel movie. We are getting board games, sleepware, posters, toys… And fragrances. “Tiberius”, “Red Shirt” and “Pon Farr” are the names. I don’t know.…

Reax to Oscar Nominations: Meh.

Wow, the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday and I’m kind of stunned. No Dark Knight for best picture. No nomination for Darren Aronovski for The Wrestler. No nomination of Springsteen’ song from The Westler. No nomination for Clint Eastwood for…

Pics of the new Star Trek movie toys

Courtesy of USA Today… /looks at pictures… //looks at bank account… ///says “goodbye” to contents of bank account… UPDATE: Here’s pictures of some of the rest of the toy line, including the new phaser and tricorder!

On Mr. Montalban…

I am late to post this, because of family matter and such (those pancakes will not make themselves, nor will the chicken dinner and pumpkin pie…) but I have to write something about Mr. Ricardo Montalban. I grew up watching…

Patrick

What should I believe? It’s an odd question, but it’s one we have all had at one point or another. We may have not even expressed this question consciously – we may have absorbed what other people told us, and…