Try now to take the next step
In the last 18 hours, I’ve been overwhelmed with supportive messages from friends, people I’ve never met, and total strangers. Thank you. It means a lot to me to be embraced by so many when I feel like I took one on the chin, even though it was, in a lot…
Knowing he has thousands of adoring fans and, as far as I can tell, dozens of my favorite people on the planet as his close friends and collaborators may not prevent that initial crushing wave of depression, but I’m glad that he can at least gain some comfort from that and try to soften the blow. We’ve all been there, one way or another - I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I’m about to be in almost the exact same place a couple dozen times over the next few months.
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George Takei 11/19/12 (via georgetakei)
I think he’s getting it…
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George has the best social media team in the history of social media teams.
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ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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Con Plague
Wheaton, you’re not alone. Sistabro has lost her voice for the first time ever. I just barely managed to make it through the Walking Dead panel and then had to run out before I managed to cause any nasty work for the Convention Center staff (who’ve been lovely and if you too have ever been the person on staff who knows exactly where the sanitization kits are, you’ll understand why that was my main priority).
The temptation to nuke it from orbit just to be sure is strong.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is 25-years old this week. I gave myself the length of the soundtrack to the landmark two-parter, “Best of Both Worlds,” to write about it.
Thinking about The Next Generation (TNG) feels like recalling a favorite schoolteacher or remembering old…
This is my friend, Will, about what TNG means to him.
I was a little bit younger and didn’t do the dice game stuff, but this is a pretty accurate summation of my feelings towards TNG. I was also too young to know about usenet or know how terrible people were to poor Wil (as an 8 year old who was sent to sixth grade English classes and fifth grade math classes, I likedWesley and considered him something of a hero).
I guess that ultimately, it’s one of those things where the first one (for you) is never going to be quite as close or important to you as anything that follows. Now that I’m older I can recognize a lot of things that I forgave or didn’t notice just because it was something my whole family watched together on Friday nights, and every night after dinner once they started syndicating episodes.
It’s also something that just sticks with you. Seriously. I adore Doctor Who, but it will never be the closest science-fiction show to my heart. I’ve never understood people who think Kirk is a better Captain than Picard. For me, TNG’s intro and outro music are the “real” theme songs of the entire franchise. I remain a Worf/Troi shipper and upset that DS9 and the movies broke them up. I use “There are FOUR LIGHTS,” and “ASSIMILATE” (the latter often countered with “EXTERMINATE” by equally geeky friends) in conversations at least once a week.
Anyway: happy birthday Next Generation. You boldly went where no man one television show had gone before: my heart. (I can’t say “story” because The Princess Bride came out a few months earlier than TNG and got there first).
This meme needs more love.
ALL OF THE LOVE.
MOAR.
(via thecookiemomma)
Tabletop | 1.03 Tsuro, Zombie Dice, and Get Bit!
Oh man, I am so saving this .gif for posting on Reddit, when necessary.
I love you, Wil.
(Image by Luke McKinney, via Bob Suicide)
The lead actors weren’t allowed to see Ray Brower until they unveiled him on camera; this method was used to unsettle the four boys and gain the best reaction possible.
FilmTrivia.tumblr.com recently did a feature on Stand By Me. Check out their blog for all the posts!
This trivia is completely wrong. I suspect that whoever wrote it is confusing us with the cast of The Goonies, who were not allowed to see the pirate ship until they were on camera.
We all saw The Body long before it was revealed to us on the set. Before it was played by an actual actor (Corey’s stand in, Kent), it was a latex head that was built by Mike Westmore in Los Angeles and shipped to location in Oregon. Mike’s brother Monty was our makeup department head, and he spent quite a bit of time working on the head in the makeup trailer. He painted it, he shaded it, he brought it to life (er, death) over the course of many days.
When the head was placed on the dummy body and the whole thing was set up on the set, it was decided (I can’t remember by whom) that the head didn’t look enough like an actual human being. As it turned out, it bore an uncanny resemblance to Corey’s stand in, so Kent was cast to play Ray Bower. They made him up, dressed him in the clothes that had been on the dummy, and put him into the movie.
