Posts Tagged ‘Battlestar Galactica’
Groundhog Day Robot Favored By PETA
How many things are automated in your day? Your banking, your shopping, your love life? Well if PETA has its way, Groundhog Day will soon join them. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to save Punxsutawney Phil from the media circus that accompanies his annual prognostication on the length of winter. PETA says the dawn [...]
Top 10 TV Series of The Decade
So last week The Hollywood Reporter came up with their Top 10 TV series of the Decade. And I was really underwhelmed by the list. Most of these are good shows. I surprised that they were bold and picked five shows from cable networks, rather than kowtowing to the broadcast networks. The public doesn't care what network the show is on and [...]
Don’t Talk to Strangers at The OC Fair
Large fiberglass replicas of food... this is how you know that the food you see will be good but not entirely healthy. Its time to head out to the county fair, in this case its the Orange County Fair. I give you some of the sights of the fair. I would have loved to do sound, but all you have to do is think carnival music, squealing kids, [...]
Beam Me Up… Abrams’ Star Trek Rocks
I didn't have high hopes, for this latest journey of the starship Enterprise. I'm not a huge J.J. Abrams fan. I don't watch Lost. I didn't really get into Alias. However, Felicity paid a lot of bills for me when it was on the air. I did really enjoy Mission Impossible III, despite the fact that Tom Cruise was the lead. All that to say, I [...]
Domo Arigato Fearful Roboto
Here it is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and one day before the inauguration of Barack Obama and what's on my mind? Robots. Ok, not robots per se, but machines that have been given nascent human qualities. Daniel Roth's essay in this month's Wired asks a stunning question-- As machines become more like us, should they be given human [...]
On Screen Comic Books 1970s-1980s Pt.2
Ok, you were kind enough to suffer through the bad stuff last week. I’ll admit the list of good stuff is a mix of comic book inspired characters and sci-fi shows. Here’s a short list of the stuff I enjoyed in the 1970s and early 1980s: Wonder Woman played by Lynda Carter – Nuff said. I’m very worried about the names being bandied [...]
