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"Nightingale Woman"
In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Gary Mitchel quotes a poem by Phineas Tarbolde, and calls it "one of the passionate love sonnets of its time." The lines he quoted were ( Read more... ) -
(Old) Star Trek TOS Trivia Quiz
OK, here's the trivia quiz I wrote long, long ago. All the questions have to do with TOS -- that's all there was then! I actually think this is fairly easy, and it's kinda one-dimensional -- it's mostly identifing quotes -- but still, it's amusing.
Star Trek Trivia Quiz
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A blast from the past
I was cleaning out a closet in the basement, and I stumbled upon my Star Trek notebooks from (gulp!) 1974. (I was 17.) In them, I have:- the program from the 1974 ST Con at the Commodore Hotel in New York,
- a Star Trek Trivia Quiz I wrote,
- an essay I wrote, "Vulcan: The Planet and the People,"
- a fandom vocabulary,
- a listing of Star Trek fanzines, along ( Read more... )
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Real life "superheroes"
OK, this is a bit weird. Sound more like fiction than reality. But I love it!
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Shatner's film, "The Captains"
Just saw Shatner's film, "The Captains." It was actually pretty good. Shatner, such a sly and smart and able manipulator of his personna, earnestly interviews Stewart, Brooks, Mulgrew, Bakula and Pine about their experiences and thoughts regarding their Star Trek roles. He also includes footage of conventions and some of his own thoughts. ( Read more... ) -
Cool article about venturing to other star systems...
..., or at least, beginning to plan to plan how to travel to other star systems. By The New York Times, mind you!! Now all I have to do is figure out how to live another 150 or 250 years, so I can see the fun stuff that's to come...http://www.nytimes.com/ -
ST Con photos on Creation website!
Gary Berman, one of the Creation Entertainment principals, asked me if he could use some of my photos on the website. They're up now:
http://www.creationent.com/cal/stlv.htm
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Photos from Las Vegas Con, 2011
This is only a small selection of the photos I took at the Con. Have a look! I haven't gotten to the Terry Farrell shots yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixellle/collections/72157627348191819/
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Vegas con 2011 photos coming soon
... Patrick Stewart, you are just too damn photogenic. How am I ever going to weed down the photos of you to a reasonable number?
Anyway, great time at the Con and took tons of pix (as usual)! I'll get them up ASAP. Better to put them all up at once, right, rather than bit by bit? -
Parents keep child's gender a secret (OT)
What do you folks think about this story:
http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/995112--parents-keep-child-s-gender-secret
I think it's fascinating, but complicated. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.