This Wednesday I set out for the 3.5 hour at maximum warp journey to Las Vegas for the annual Star Trek convention at the Rio hotel. Last year, my wife and I attended the Vegas con for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek celebration, and it was a blast. It was my first time at…
Month: July 2017
San Diego Comic Con 2017 final entry/recap…
Well, SDCC has come and gone. It’s been a lot of exhausting, sweaty, crowd-navigating fun. At age 50, it’s becoming increasingly patience-taxing at times to navigate/negotiate the formidable crowds with good humor and grace, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It’s Nerd-vana. And when you’re in the middle of it?…
San Diego Comic Con, Preview Night & Day One, July 19th-20th, 2017
Our annual pilgrimage to Geek Mecca (aka San Diego Comic Con) began yesterday morning (Weds. July 19th) as we arrived at our hotel (Springhill Suites, Marriott, San Diego) around noon, unpacked our stuff, ate, and Jules immediately went down to Preview Night down at the convention center. I, feeling a bit more infirm than…
Martin Landau: 1928-2017
Let me begin this blog entry by saying I feel woefully inadequate (as a blogger and a fan) to sum up the life and work of the late Martin Landau. Martin Landau worked for Alfred Hitchcock (“North By Northwest”). He and his ex-wife Barbara Bain headlined a science fiction cult series (“Space: 1999”), as well…
The (new) Doctor will see you now…
Once again, we Whovians are faced with that time of bittersweet anticipation/excitement as one Doctor exits, and another enters. The announcement was made this morning that the 13th incarnation of the beloved Doctor (or 14th, if you count the late John Hurt’s War Doctor) will be…. …. “Broadchurch”’s Jodie Whittaker! Well done, powers-that-be of…
One week till San Diego Comic Con 2017…
It’s that time of the year when my wife and I prepare for our annual July pilgrimage to San Diego (an hour and 20 minutes south of us) for Comic Con. She and I have been going to SDCC every year since 2004, with the lone exception of 2007 (and both of us regretted…
Keep on Trekkin’! “Star Trek: The Next Generation” 30 years later…
As I write this, I can hardly believe that this September will mark the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). When the news of ST’s return to the cathode ray broke in the fall of 1986 (coinciding with the release of the movie, “The Voyage Home”), I was pretty excited. As…
“Independence Day” will not go quietly into the night…though maybe it should have.
Forgive the on-the-nose timeliness of this entry (hoping to publish on or around July 4th), but I wanna talk about a 1990s guilty-as-hell pleasure called “Independence Day” (aka ID4). A movie I’m not entirely proud to say that I saw several times in theatrical release (hey, there was no Netflix in 1996, okay? So…