As I did with 2008 and 2007, a couple of highlights from this blog for the past year: I made quite a few changes to my blog, including updating my Feedburner feed, installing Disqus and ShareThis, and moving the blog over to my own hosted site and making the jump from Blogger to WordPress Ended [...]
There’s no denying it. Comic books and science fiction have more than their fair share of “only for geeks.” While I would be hard pressed to deny who I am, I will say that my love for science fiction goes far beyond just pure escapism. Now, I could talk about how I think comic books [...]
After a week of anticipation, I finally got to watch the new Star Trek movie on Friday in IMAX. I was a little bummed that I had arrived at the theater late (my girlfriend’s classmate foolishly chose not to take the cab with us and got lost trying to find the theater), forcing us to [...]
I had a rough week last week, so this weekend, to recuperate, I: had a double-date with my girlfriend and another couple went to a party with an old high school friend watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine – not a great film by any means, but fun (Gambit, Deadpool, Sabertooth, Agent Zero, Wraith, Emma Frost, Silver [...]
I consider myself, unabashedly, a big Star Trek fan. Being a big fan means a lot of things. It means that I can quickly engage another Star Trek fan in a myriad of “useless” conversation about alien races and science fiction scenarios and debates about “which captain was the greatest” (Sisko, duh). It also means [...]
The “holy grail” of aging research is the ability to actually reverse the aging process. Or in other words, turn the clock back on this aged fellow on the left and transform him back into the handsome young thing on the right: Of course, as with all things biological, nature figured this out long before [...]
I just discovered, with much sadness, that Majel Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, the actress who played the ever-memorable Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of all the various incarnations of Star Trek’s “computers” has just passed away. I just spent the past couple of minutes browsing her Wikipedia page, and found some [...]
Decided to indulge in a little nerdy fandomness and started looking at some DS9 stuff online and I found this gem from Andrew Robinson about his experiences playing one of my favorite characters of all time, Elim Garak, the “plain, simple tailor” — and I happen to concur: Q: I’ve enjoyed your work ever since [...]