The Starlost
If you’re crippled by a love of really bad sci-fi like me, there’s some good news today: The Starlost series is coming out, and it’s only 25 bucks on Amazon. Here’s the link where, if you buy it, you can …
Tag: Cult Culture
Blacks in Space
One of my favorite scenes in the classic Star Trek is when Abraham Lincoln appears and calls Uhura a “charming nigress.” He’s politely informed that such language isn’t used anymore, and everyone is equal in the future, and all that …
The Twin Peaks girls
Fza wants to see Sherilyn Fenn nude which, you know, is about as easy as apple pie, since Fenn was nothing but nude everywhere during her Twin Peaks period. I still have that issue of Playboy, where they barely showed …
Vices
I’ll start by saying that I really want to escape this life. I want to live on a West Virginia mountaintop, in a Joe Bob Briggs TNT Monstervision-era trailer, and just vanish. But that’s not really practical at this point …
Where do you roam
I’m currently entranced by the Shorpy 100 year old photo blog. Plenty of DC stuff there, which makes me pine for street cars and ugly buck-toothed women from the 1920’s. When in need of some light-hearted happy news, though, there’s …
Welcome to the party!
The Spanish translation of that great scene in Die Hard seems so much more eloquent:
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
I just learned that Don S. Davis died a couple days ago. He was Major Briggs in Twin Peaks and General Hammond in Stargate, among many other roles. But those were the two that I grew up with. Briggs was …
Weekends
I’ve been trying to piece together my childhood weekends. Of course, when very young, it was up early on Saturdays for cartoons like The Little’s and Smurfs and so on, which gradually morphed into the unlimited crappy sci-fi that was …
Non Productive Monday
In an attempt to waste as much time as possible, I spent today writing up a little thing in the forums: One season sci fi wonders. Shows that never were, I suppose. Canceled after a handful of episodes, they’re all …
Sci-Fi Saturday
Well, since I wrote about it yesterday, it’s time for a trip report. Mainly because I’m waiting on my friend Lonnie who called an hour ago and gave me some weak excuse about being late. The plan was for him …