A few weeks ago I picked up The Complete Musketeers on DVD, a collection of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers as directed by Richard Lester in the early 1970s. (The title is misleading–the collection is not complete in that it does not contain The Return of the Musketeers, the 1989 sequel by LesterContinue reading “Move, Countermove, Guile, and Deceit”
Strange Stunt Casting
Suppose a future episode of Enterprise featured Frank Finlay as a dog breeder, the one who sold Captain Archer his beagle Porthos? Or is this just too strange a thought to contemplate?
For the record
Some things simply should not be done. Chocolate covered gummy bears are an offense to the taste buds. That is all.
New Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, released recently through McSweeney’s Books a book entitled simply Songbook. This is, like Fever Pitch, strictly non-fiction, a look at some of the songs that Hornby, a former music critic, enjoys, and includes a CD of several of the songs essayed in the book. JustContinue reading “New Nick Hornby”
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Somehow, in some twisted cosmic way, this is utterly appropriate. I am Khan. Khan Noonien Singh, ruler of one-quarter of the Earth, a gentically engineered superman. Khan. I like that. So says a Star Trek personality test, anyway. “It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive.”
Writer's Notebook II
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Kirk and Spock discuss 20th-century American literature on a San Francisco public bus. The remembered names of 20th-century literature? Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann, two authors we would consider today the purveyors of crap. What we think of today as great literature may not stand the test ofContinue reading “Writer's Notebook II”
Name Badge
I was asked, for reasons unknown, to post the graphic image I use for my name badge at work. And since it’s a random enough request, why not? The Doctor Who LEGO image of Paul McGann was taken from here. Yes, I wear the eighth Doctor on my name badge. Is there a problem withContinue reading “Name Badge”
Not for Tolkien purists
Two items of note. First, Tolkien-inspired gangsta rap. Yes, such a beast exists, and I have the CD. You can sample the mp3 of “Lords of the Rhymes” here. Second, the lost son of Denethor, brother to Boromir and Faramir. Not to be seen by the faint of heart, I assure you.
Canon Fodder
I’m something of a grinagog, and certainly reading onward would give one that impression. I recently made these comments at TrekBBS regarding the Star Trek novels and what constitutes “canon” Star Trek, and for posterity’s sake decided to archive them here because I thought they were both amusing and informative. Thank you, Roger Waters [posterContinue reading “Canon Fodder”
Summing Up My Life
My mind was warped at a very young age, and I haven’t been able to get it flat since.