I’ve decided to attend an upcoming Star Trek convention–the Farpoint Convention in Baltimore the weekend of February 17th through the 19th, 2006. Same hotel, almost the same people as the Shore Leave convention I attend every July, but I’ve never been to the February convention, I have a week of Christmas comp time to take,Continue reading “On Farpoint”
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On Shore Leave IV
Mystery Trekkie Theatre. It’s an annual tradition–Peter David, Mike Friedman, and Bob Greenberger play Mike and the ‘bots picking nits and making fun of Star Trek episodes. This year, they didn’t do a Trek episode. They dug up the 1964 Alexander the Great pilot, starring William Shatner and Adam West. Oh, the horror! The horror!Continue reading “On Shore Leave IV”
On Shore Leave III
Computer in the hotel lobby free, so let’s update. 🙂 Just dropped money on silly things. The novelization of the Gene Wilder film, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, which I remember watching as a kid (and probably not in the last twenty-plus years). A bootleg DVD set of the complete Birds of Prey.Continue reading “On Shore Leave III”
On Shore Leave II
Writing this morning from the computer terminal in the Hunt Valley Marriott lobby. On a random note, it’s odd to see my webpage on a computer other than mine. I think I made some decent generic font choices, and it looks nice, but I miss seeing the various Doctor Who fonts used on the page.Continue reading “On Shore Leave II”
On Shore Leave
Every July I attend the Shore Leave media sci-fi convention in Baltimore. This year, it’s no different. I’m leaving Raleigh in about two hours. I want to be on the road by ten. I haven’t packed yet. So, expect stony silence here the next week. Play nice. 🙂
On Fan Films
Slate.com posted an article today on Revelations, a Star Wars fan film. I’ve not seen the film–the pity of a dial-up connection–but I’ve seen a few Star Wars fan films. The classic Troops I have on DVD. The article’s idea is that with Lucas finishing what he wanted to say in the Star Wars universeContinue reading “On Fan Films”
Appearances update
The Shore Leave convention has posted the weekend’s schedule. As previously noted, I will be hosting a Doctor Who panel celebrating the show’s fortieth anniversary, Sunday at 5 o’clock. Yesterday’s news that BBCi will be web-broadcasting a six-episode animated special starring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor gives me something new and interesting toContinue reading “Appearances update”
On Doctor Who Fandom
If you, good reader, met me in person, you wouldn’t know I was a Star Trek fan. If you came over to my house, you’d see nothing to indicate my Trek fandom. I couldn’t hide my love of Doctor Who even if I wanted to. 🙂 I discovered Who in the early ’80s, when theContinue reading “On Doctor Who Fandom”
Stones and Glass
I should be worried. I knew the two baseball teams in Gotham City without having to look it up. I even knew which league each team is in. (For those of you wondering, Gotham City hosts the Monarchs, of the National League, and the Knights, of the American League. The Monarchs replaced the Griffins, whoContinue reading “Stones and Glass”
On Waiting for Frodo
Yesterday’s encounter in Barnes & Noble brings to mind a website I recommend checking out: waitingforfrodo.com. The site features an online comic strip entitled, as you might guess, Waiting for Frodo, written by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, about a young man named Sam who waited in line for 200-odd days for the release of the firstContinue reading “On Waiting for Frodo”