Been looking through my old mini-DV tapes to find and archive some older memories before the tapes degrade, and I slapped together a couple of videos from some years back. The first is video I shot when we visited/stayed at…
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Another retro movie review (Crichton returns!) – The Andromeda Strain
Ah, the dystopia that the people of the 70s feared… Looking back, it’s hard to tell what was the greater threat to mankind back then. Was it overpopulation, and the resulting Soylent Green-byproducts? Zombies who love mall sales? Killer bees?…
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Since everyone else will link to it in the next 24 hours, so will I…
Here’s Kermit the Frog, singing “Hurt”. [youtube]uLQRv0RjBBM[/youtube] Oh, and NOT SAFE FOR WORK! And to my new employers, I did NOT do this, so, please, consider this posting in the category “editorial fair use…”
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This… is… a three-way tie?
Jeopardy spent a couple of days last week promoing a “very special episode” that aired on Friday, claiming it made “history” – well, it definitely did that. The final score was $16,000 all – yup, all three players ended up…
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Richard Jeni
Wow, that was unexpected. If you have not heard, Richard Jeni died yesterday, from gun shot wounds that were, apparently, self-inflicted. Jeni is one of those comedians that was a “comedian’s comedian” – one who made other comics laugh as…
Geek, Movies
Retro movie review, part deux: Westworld
Ah, once again thanks to the Netflix movie download service, I am revisiting my youth…. Well, specifically, the guilty pleasures of my youth. The other night I rewatched Westworld, and it still stands up pretty well. In case you…
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One heck of a Disney shareholders meeting…
I don’t own any Disney stock, but, after reading this report of the Disney shareholder meeting this past week in New Orleans, I’m tempted to pick up some shares just so I can attend the next one. Less than 150 people showed up?…
Geek, Movies
Live-action G.I.Joe movie?
If anyone wants to see a live-action Joe movie then go see Transformers, because one of the producers is setting his eye on the RAH as his next project – that is, of course, if the robots-in-disguise flick is a…
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Was the Death Star an inside job?
Websurdity has broken the conspiracy of silence on the terror attack against the Empire that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Imperials. Click here to read it. Nothing more to add besides the author nenglected to mention…
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Someone at Google news screwed up…
Look at the following headline, about a car crash here in Atlanta this AM: Someone has speant WAY too much time typing the President’s name…
TV, Twin Peaks
Wrapped in Plastic… Once again
Some people have a mid-life crisis when they realize that they can’t do all the things they once could – they lose breath quickly, or can’t keep up with their friends playing touch football. for example. Others look at what…
TV
Happy Birthday Abe Vigoda!
Yes, he’s still alive. Happy 86th, Abe!
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Added flickr photos
Added a plug-in to display photos from my new flickr account – it’s not much but I will be adding lots more soon. Click here to see the photo gallery.
TV
Ah, the warm sweet smell of MST3K…
I was discussing with my friend Tony at lunch the other day how much we missed Mystery Science Theatre 3000. For years it was “appointment television” for fans of bad cinema nationwide: every Saturday afternoon you had MST3K and for…
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New G.I.Joe Club site
…And just as I realized I was being remiss in my geek duties to not have posted a Trek entry before today, so to am I remiss in not mentioning that my pal Lanny Lathem recently posted a new and…
Trek
Obligatory first Star Trek post: Wil Wheaton, Trek reviewer
I’ve been off my game – almost two months posting with a WordPress blog (after abandoning iweb) and I have yet to post a Trek entry. Geez. Anyway, Wil Wheaton has been doing retro-reviews of episodes of Star Trek:…