How do I sign onto this site? Oh, right. There we go.
The situation that required me to put everything on hold is mostly better. I won’t know for certain until December, but for now I’m comfortable thinking about other things.
I haven’t done a “Guess the Girl” post in many years. Here’s a good one. This photo was taken in 1972. I was in high school, but this girl dropped out that year. Don’t recognize her? Click the pic to see her mom. Know her now?
The Star Trek Tour in Ticonderoga, NY, is the gold standard in the accurate, faithfully detailed reproduction of the sets as seen in the original series. To get official approval from CBS to operate as a tourist attraction, James Cawley agreed to stop creating new episodes. Other Trek TOS devotees have their own fan fiction videos.
In this clip from The Late Late Show on CBS, pre-James Corden host Craig Ferguson tributes the time-tripping Doctor Who, with an appearance by the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.
To Ferguson’s delight, Smith’s Doctor regenerated into his old pal, Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. Here they are talking about dropping acid. Which I assure you I never did, or ever had any interest in doing.
Ferguson is about to go on a short tour, and one of his stops will be at the gates of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
https://www.aomtheatre.com/event/craig-ferguson-the-fancy-rascal-tour/
My old Western Mass newspaper cohort and friend Mike Dobbs spoke with Ferguson by phone a couple of days ago.
https://www.thereminder.com/dining/features/craig-ferguson-to-perform-at-academy-of-music-sept/
Picking up on my Cuckoo Month post from a few days ago, you can add Doctor Who to the list. The series premiered on November 23, 1963.
Nuclear power as an energy option to reduce fossil fuel dependency? Fuk-U-Shima, no!
I was at a comic/media convention in Cambridge, MA with my son. Standing with one foot on the first step of the long curved staircase up to the mezzanine, I had a hand on the railing. My head was turned to talk to my son about when and where we’d meet later.
There was a tap on my shoulder. I turned my head, and Morena Baccarin was only an arm’s length away — her arm — in front of me. She was beyond stunning to behold, and I was unable to suppress my immediate reaction. I gasped and exclaimed, “WOW!” Morena smiled, said thank you, and I got out of her way. Whether looking at a woman or at a work of art, world-class beauty is best appreciated in person.
That pleasant moment happened less than halfway between Baccarin appearing in the Firefly TV series in 2002 and the first Deadpool movie in 2016. Good thing I was less decrepit than I am now, and in marathon running trim. I’d have felt like a jerk if she hadn’t acknowledged my spontaneous compliment!
“The Light of a Thousand Suns” was one of the first radio plays written for the BBC by James Follett. It presents a doomsday scenario that could easily be updated to imagine the worst possible outcome of AI gone wrong. HIGHLY recommended.
