Lost in all the excitement of the Twin Peaks revival is the fact that David Lynch and Mark Frost did more than just Twin Peaks together. They did a fantastic documentary series called American Chronicles… and a sitcom named On The Air.…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
From the 1979 Sears Wishbook… SPACE TOYS!
I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time looking through Christmas catalog scans on WishbookWeb.com this week… The nostalgia! The FEELS! I’ll be sharing some of the pages scanned from the toy section over the next couple of weeks…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
Some more Twin Peaks ephemera for ya…
Since this is National “Twin Peaks is Coming Back” week, I’m gonna just keep posting cool paperwork and articles from when the show first aired. Here’s a great satirical portrait that was in an issue of Entertainment Weekly: Here’s the…
Geek Ephemera, TV
BOB Wanted Poster
You may want to print this out to get ready for 2016…
Geek, TV, Twin Peaks
It is happening… Again. Twin Peaks return to TV in 2016!
Social media is exploding with this story today, and rightly so: Twin Peaks, the series that inspired much of the great TV drama that we have enjoyed for decades, will return to the airwaves on Showtime in 2016. Not to go into too…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
A letter from the mayor of Twin Peaks
The Twin Peaks nostalgia continues, this time with a scan of the letter from the Mayor of Twin Peaks the Honorable Dwayne Milford. This letter was sent to members of the Twin Peaks fan club along with the free Twin…
Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
The Twin Peaks “Family Tree”
Lots of people are buzzing about the potential return of one of my favorite shows, Twin Peaks, after a couple of cryptic tweets were simu-posted by creators Mark Frost and David Lynch. “That gum you like is coming back in…
Geek Ephemera, Trek
Actor’s “instruction manual” for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture bridge
This is a real cool one. In 1978, when they were filming Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the production designer put together an “instruction manual” of the Enterprise bridge for the actors. Yes, the actors had actual guidance as to what buttons…
Geek, Trek, TV
How to play “Trek God”
Blatantly ripped off from Drew McWeeney at HitFix, earlier this year I started doing a Star Trek “party game” with some of my Trek fan friends. The premise is simple: If you were “Trek God” like Q and could take…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
Star Wars: Jedi Arena for the Atari 2600!
I love the Atari 2600, for many reasons. The biggest one is, of course, it was the first video game system I ever owned… and I played the crap out of it. I still remember spending HOURS trying to beat…
UX Articles
Embrace user stories to simply align agile and #UX
One of the big topics of conversation in UX circles the past few years has been “Lean UX”, an approach focused on minimizing and reducing design documentation in order to focus more on what is being designed instead of the artifacts. I’m…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV
The Warrior’s Battlejacket from Battlestar Galactica!
If you were a fan of Battlestar Galactica in the late 70s, there was one thing you coveted (OK, two things, if you count Jane Seymour or Maren Jensen) – that flight jacket. And you could actually buy one! You,…
Geek Ephemera, TV
The Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook!
I STILL want this. Way back in the 70s, fan-made blueprints of SF settings ships and gear were REALLY popular. It all started with the Star Fleet Technical Manual from Franz Joseph, which provided a lot of unofficial Star Trek…
Geek Ephemera
The Star Wars Sketchbook
Joe Johnston was a designer and illustrator at Lucasfilm in 1976, and he did a lot of work on a little movie they made called Star Wars. He later went on to become a director, bringing us The Rocketeer, Jurassic…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Movies, TV
Celebrating Pizzazz magazine
Anybody remember Pizzazz Magazine? It was an attempt by Marvel Comics to enter the teen magazine market in the late seventies, and I was a subscriber. I LOVED Pizzazz, because it was a lot more geeky than other magazines (it had a…
Geek Ephemera
Karate Ads from 1975!
Bruce Lee and Karate was REALLY big in the mid-seventies. Like, HUGE! Karate magazines littered newsstands, knock-off B movies were being imported by the boat load, Men were foolishly wearing “Hai Karate”… and mail-order companies popped up EVERYWHERE – selling…