Holiday Notes
Dec 28* As mentioned below, I used some returns and a giftcard to get my grubby paws on Star Trek TOS season 1. Just started watching it last night…man, “The Man Trap” doesn’t exactly strike the note of equality that Trek would come to be known for, does it? The “monster of the week” is basically a thinly-veiled metaphor for the vamping whore stereotype, and even Uhura gets into the act with her desperate lunge for Spock’s loins.
* Finding myself with all this new Trek on my hands makes me want to initiate some sort of massive Trek writing/reviewing project, but I don’t know what if anything I’d bring to the table that’s at all new or interesting. Still, I feel compelled, if only as some sort of personal achievement-slash-exploration. Classic Trek is pretty much one of the chief foundations for my geekdom, along with Star Wars.
Right now, I’m thinking about watching and reviewing all of TOS over 2008. A bit ambitious, but also relatively doable.
* A Wii entered my life over the holidays, and my body is literally aching from Wii bowling and boxing.
* Working my way through a read of the Authority’s Ellis/Millar era. I had the Ellis trades forever, but had never bothered to read forward into Millar’s work. Man, what a killer concept: A team of superhero tropes transformed into interesting characters, then given extinction-level events to deal with on a regular basis. Classic marriage of the typical and the atypical from Ellis, and Millar just picks up the ball and runs further with it. I’m finding overall that I quite enjoy the “widescreen comics” movement I missed while I was away from the genre.
* Also received a Coen brothers DVD box set. Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, Barton Fink, and Blood Simple. I already own The Big Lebowski so I think I’m pretty much covered.
* Last of my store credit at Best Buy; hovering over the Checkout button for a camcorder-to-computer kit thing and the Blade Runner 4-disc set. Have never seen Blade Runner so am sorta thinking I need to rectify that before I get shot by some indignant nerd who decides to find my address and hunt me down for my ignorance.
* Right before Christmas, I got funky with my iPod, and decided to download and install an iPod Touch interface update for my 5G video iPod. It worked great…for a while. Just after Christmas, I took it out to use it, and my information was replaced by the information for “Aaron’s iPod.” Eagle-eyed readers will note I am not Aaron.
So the other thing I’ve been doing my whole holiday is reloading crap onto my iPod since I had to erase the whole damn thing to get it working again. Bah humbug!
Ah, Trek.
Dec 28I used some store credit at Barnes & Noble over the holiday to finally get my hands on Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1 on DVD. Such bliss.
Which may explain my minor geekgasm when reading about the new Trek comics planned by IDW in 2008. I mean, DC Fontana writing TOS-era Trek again, that’s legitimately exciting.
But noted crank John Byrne, doing his writer/artist thing to pick up that Assignment: Earth back-door pilot concept and run with it? Nutty, I say. Just nutty.
"Most of these are 'towel'."
Dec 22A Merry Chrismas from me (a Chris. ho ho.) to you and yours.
I got you a mash-up I made with my own two little hands. I call it…
All I Want For Christmas Is You, David Tennant
Dec 21A friend sent me this cute Dr. Who holiday animation, but I was almost more impressed by one of the “related videos” next to it. Please watch as HogwartsHonorRoll juxtaposes images of The Doctor and Rose to the festive tones of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (a favorite holiday jam of both myself and Mr. Springer).
George Lucas: Social Cripple
Dec 21From John Hurt’s interview with Premiere on Indy 4:
George is a bit socially crippled really. Not good with people. So I just left him alone.
Smart move there, John.
