Harry Turtledove has taken the Second World War and masterfully translated it into a fantasy world of dragons and behemoths; of ley lines and magic; of sticks and eggs which release sorcerous […]
Book Review: Out of the Darkness: A Novel of the World at War by Harry Turtledove – Which Costs More, Winning or Losing?
Star Trek: The Original Series – Court Martial – Star Trek or a Bad Sixties Legal Show?
Written by Don Mankiewicz, Steven W. Carabatsos, ad Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels Every now and then it seems that Star Trek has to remind us that as much as us fans […]
CBS All-Access The Stand – Episode 4: The House of the Dead
The fourth episode of the CBS All-Access limited series based on the book by Stephen King starts delivering more of the core story of the battle between good and evil. The superflu […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Tomorrow is Yesterday – The Real Story Behind UFO Abductions
Written by D.C. Fontana and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Michael O’Herlihy There are times when I view an episode of the original Star Trek series and it’s not one that I remember quite […]
DVD Review – Walt Disney Treasures: Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios – Animation Appreciation 101
I was born just a bit too late to see the original broadcasts of the Wonderful World of Disney. I can remember an incarnation of the show from my younger years, but […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Arena – Kirk Plays Gladiator with a Lizard
Written by Gene L. Coon, Frederic Brown, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Joseph Pevney Sometimes, when I watch previews of Star Trek episodes, I get a feeling based on these snippets of whether […]
Book Review: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult – A Journey Through Egyptology and Regret
After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I […]
And So It Goes
Yesterday I was driving around, doing the various errands that needed to be done, when this song came on Classic Rewind. I thought about the events this was chronicling It was a […]
Babylon 5 – The Complete Fourth Season: No Surrender, No Retreat
Babylon 5 was an amazing series from start to finish. Set approximately 250 years in the future on a space station five miles long, it carried a five-year long story-arc which stayed […]
Corona Virus Diaries: January 27, 2021
It’s the coldest part of the winter for us here in the White Mountains. In years past, we’ve seen negative temperatures quite frequently this time of year. That’s not happening so much […]
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