The annual Star Trek Vegas convention is coming soon, and a new “Star Trek Continues” episode is out NOW…

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…

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…