Never go full hipster. That, alas, is what I have done… In my man cave are stacks and stacks of vinyl, both new and old, and it has become my newest hobby/slash obsession. Recollecting albums I had as child, or…
As most people who read a blog like this knows, the new Star Wars film opened to a colossal amount of tickets sold – $250 million in the US, and $500 million dollars worldwide, and that was just during the…
Well, another year is done, and here is a list of the Top 10 Posts that people visited on this site over the past 12 months. I was actually surprised at some of these, and will editorialize on that as…
I have a love-hate relationship with bad movies. For one thing, life is too short. I have SO many movies in my queue – good movies, CLASSIC movies – that the idea of watching a movie like, say, Death Wish…
My son Mike is a Marvel movies NUT, especially the Iron Man movies (and character). So when I decided I was going to take two of my sons to Disneyland as a pre-Christmas gift, I knew he was going to…
I took a quick trip to Disneyland this past weekend with two of my sons – it was an early Christmas present for all of us. One of our “must-see” destination at the park was the Star Wars Launch Bay,…
Two of my pop culture obsessions are Star Trek and the Planet of the Apes series. In a just world there would be Apes conventions around the world just like there are ones for Trek… but, alas, the world does…
Found this in my magazine collection – a very good article on the TV Show The Prisoner from Starlog issue 11. Written by Howard Zimmerman (who wrote a LOT of Starlog’s content in the early years of the magazine), the piece…
Here’s an unintentionally funny article from the great Six Million Dollar Man comic magazine that was published during the time the series was on the air. Why are they such a great team? Because they are the first bromance: “They have…
This is a month of geek anniversaries… Today, 50 years ago, the first episode of Lost in Space aired. While it was – and is – very much a “kids show” compared to shows like Star Trek or The Twilight…
To celebrate Star Trek’s 49th birthday, why don’t you read my thoughts on the franchise? I’ve written a lot on the series over the years, and here’s an index of the best of those posts… Wow, I’m prolific… A look…
Because of the Labor Day holiday weekend, I completely forgot a very big anniversary. September 4th was the 40th anniversary of the UK airing of “Breakaway,” the very first episode of Space: 1999. I was a HUGE fan of this…
Here’s an ad from Starlog magazine, circa 1977. When I first saw this, I thought “Wow, this is totally illegal now.” But after doing some research I found that, yes, you totally can put a different “face” on the US…
I am unhealthfully obsessed with the Planet of the Apes films. I think it’s because the first Apes film was the first real “sci-fi” film I saw. I was eight – maybe. Before Star Wars, before Logan’s Run, I saw…
I SO wanted a robot when I was growing up… and for a while, that was actually possible. Behold, this Sears 1985 Wishbook page: Omnibot! Maxx Steele! Chatbot! And the big bad OMNIBOT 2000! Holy cow, these things were AWESOME.…
It was on my bucket list. Like so many things on my bucket list, I had put it off. I was too busy with other things, I had too much work to do, I couldn’t put aside the time to…