Showing posts with label pop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop. Show all posts
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Shatner, The Man, Has a Birthday
Today is an intensely special day. William Shatner has a birthday. It is today. Today is the day. March 22. Let us pay homage and celebrate.
Shatner performing Elton John's "Rocket Man" at the 1978 Science Fiction awards
Shatner's World of Warcraft Commercial
Shatner's Famous Self-Determined Pronunciations, example: "Sabotage"
Shatner interviews Rush Limbaugh on _Raw Nerve_, December 2009
Saturday, February 13, 2010
How To Have a Star Trek Valentine's Day
Following are my suggestions for what to do for a good quality Star Trek Valentine's Day, with a little help from Etsy.
1. Carve the name of your true love (yourself) into a tree, and commemorate the action on a t-shirt:
Available from peanutbutterandjelly on Etsy
1. Carve the name of your true love (yourself) into a tree, and commemorate the action on a t-shirt:
Available from peanutbutterandjelly on Etsy2. Document your allegiance on all love notes:
Available from Nerd Notes on Etsy
Available from Nerd Notes on Etsy
Available from Nerd Notes on Etsy
Available from Nerd Notes on Etsy3. Play Dress Up:
Available from Panda Sewing Boutique on Etsy
Available from Panda Sewing Boutique on Etsy
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Klingon Linguistic Epiphany
Kaplah! (Klingon for "Success!" or "Eureka!")
An anonymous friend had the above gift sent to me via U.S. Post--The Klingon Dictionary, complete with not only translation but also linguistic structure of the Klingon language. My goodness! When we hit those episodes where Klingons start finally making more regular appearance, or, even more especially the early Star Trek movies, we'll be amply ready for incorporating Klingon into our posts.
Buy' ngop! (Klingon for "that's great news!")
An anonymous friend had the above gift sent to me via U.S. Post--The Klingon Dictionary, complete with not only translation but also linguistic structure of the Klingon language. My goodness! When we hit those episodes where Klingons start finally making more regular appearance, or, even more especially the early Star Trek movies, we'll be amply ready for incorporating Klingon into our posts.
Buy' ngop! (Klingon for "that's great news!")
Friday, January 1, 2010
Pin Ball Picard
Traveling through LaGrande, Oregon, Denise was lucky enough to come upon a still intact, and operating pinball machine. But not just any pinball wizard could play this machine. It's a Star Trek: The Next Generation Machine full of all the necessary love and passion for the series. Though pinball machines aren't a common find anymore, apparently this starship game machine is still in excellent condition. Thanks for sending the pics, Denise! I'm so happy to share them!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Captain Knight Jean-Luc Picard
In appropriate celebration for a new year, Queen Elizabeth has once again laid the sword upon the shoulders of the best men of Britain, thereby awarding them knighthood. The difference this year is that our beloved Patrick Stewart is among them.
Oh, Sir Jean-Luc. I love you. Congratulations!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Leonary Nimoy Photography
In case you want to see what our beloved Spock has been up to lately: Leonard Nimoy has a web page of his own photography. Check it out!
http://www.leonardnimoyphotography.com/images/1/photo2.jpg
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The 10 Year Old Perspective: South Park vs Star Trek
Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror Assessment:
Evil Spock really has a little bit of good on his inside, and I really enjoyed it.
Episode Summary:
The show starts out with Dr. McCoy, Captain Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura on a channel asking for some sort of diamonds, and there is an ion storm and so they have to go and the people won't give them the diamonds, and so they call to beam up, and they're in position and everything, and they beam, and they have hold of the people of them, but during the time when they're blasting up an ion crashes into the ship and makes it so they don't end up in their world, or universe as you may say, they end up in a parallel universe where there is an evil Spock and all the other characters are there and everybody has these guards and stuff and secretly McCoy, Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura are making it so they can get back to their parallel world but Mr. Spock can read minds and he reads Dr. McCoy's mind and finds out that they are good and so he helps them get back to their parallel universe and they get back and both universes are fine.
Good Uhura confronting Evil Sulu
South Park Assessment:
South Park "Spooky Fish" was strange and I did not enjoy it as much as I did the Star Trek.
Episode Summary:
Stanley got an evil fish that was killing people and his mother thought it was him and so he tries to bring the fish back but the guy at the pet store pretty much won't let him because it will be the 9th return that week and they find out that he has a parallel universe to an evil world and there is a Cartman, a good one, that ended up being in the evil world, and a bad one that was in the good world, and there his parallel people come to try and get him but with this gun that will bring him to their parallel universe but before they can get him back the good ones get the gun and shoot the two which shrink and go back into their parallel universe then try to shoot their Cartman into the parallel universe but rips off the other Cartman's beard so they can't tell and says you better just destroy us both for the sake of the world and so shoots the other one which actually turned out to be the good one and that Cartman had just done it to make it so that he would get to stay in the universe.
Stanley's Evil and Linguistically Capable Fish
Evil Spock really has a little bit of good on his inside, and I really enjoyed it.
Episode Summary:
The show starts out with Dr. McCoy, Captain Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura on a channel asking for some sort of diamonds, and there is an ion storm and so they have to go and the people won't give them the diamonds, and so they call to beam up, and they're in position and everything, and they beam, and they have hold of the people of them, but during the time when they're blasting up an ion crashes into the ship and makes it so they don't end up in their world, or universe as you may say, they end up in a parallel universe where there is an evil Spock and all the other characters are there and everybody has these guards and stuff and secretly McCoy, Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura are making it so they can get back to their parallel world but Mr. Spock can read minds and he reads Dr. McCoy's mind and finds out that they are good and so he helps them get back to their parallel universe and they get back and both universes are fine.
Good Uhura confronting Evil SuluSouth Park Assessment:
South Park "Spooky Fish" was strange and I did not enjoy it as much as I did the Star Trek.
Episode Summary:
Stanley got an evil fish that was killing people and his mother thought it was him and so he tries to bring the fish back but the guy at the pet store pretty much won't let him because it will be the 9th return that week and they find out that he has a parallel universe to an evil world and there is a Cartman, a good one, that ended up being in the evil world, and a bad one that was in the good world, and there his parallel people come to try and get him but with this gun that will bring him to their parallel universe but before they can get him back the good ones get the gun and shoot the two which shrink and go back into their parallel universe then try to shoot their Cartman into the parallel universe but rips off the other Cartman's beard so they can't tell and says you better just destroy us both for the sake of the world and so shoots the other one which actually turned out to be the good one and that Cartman had just done it to make it so that he would get to stay in the universe.
Stanley's Evil and Linguistically Capable FishWednesday, December 23, 2009
South Park Interlude
South Park: Season 2: Episode 15: Spooky Fish
South Park is of course known for its thoroughly offensive appropriations of pop-culture elements. The creators of the series are not afraid to borrow, riff on, steal, damage, insult, or prank from any commonly known reference. It's no surprise, then, that they would create an entire episode paralleling a Star Trek episode about a parallel universe.
"Evil" Cartman from the Parallel Universe
Episode Summary
"Spooky Fish" appears as the Halloween Special for the series Season 2. The episode opens with the kids school bus running over Predator. Cartmen, then appears way too polite, and with a goatee. Confused, his friends realize they are in some creepy, alternate universe in which everyone is nice to them. Stanley travels home to find there is a goldfish waiting for him as a gift. Something is totally spooky. Suddenly, Cartmen appears again, this time acting utterly jerky, as usual. Stanley attempts to sleep as a lightning storm goes on outside.
As the lightning flashes on and off, we see Cartmen's persona continually switching back and forth--polite and goateed, rude and hairless. Everyone in town is confused by Cartmen's behavior. In the midst of the lightning storm we begin to see the fish is actually a murdering aquatic vertebrate. Clearly.
South Park Parallels
The parallel of the South Park episode rest in the Cartman character. The humor is, of course, found in that Cartman is a complete jerk in regular South Park, and so in the parallel situation, Cartman must be nice. You've gotta love that nice Cartman is the one with the goatee--but that normal South Park can't help but regard everything from the alternate universe as absolutely evil. Spock, of course, is wonderful in both universes in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode.
"Spooky Fish" also riffs on the movie Pet Semetary by explaining the evil murdering fish as originating from a dead pet burial ground.
South Park is of course known for its thoroughly offensive appropriations of pop-culture elements. The creators of the series are not afraid to borrow, riff on, steal, damage, insult, or prank from any commonly known reference. It's no surprise, then, that they would create an entire episode paralleling a Star Trek episode about a parallel universe.
"Evil" Cartman from the Parallel UniverseEpisode Summary
"Spooky Fish" appears as the Halloween Special for the series Season 2. The episode opens with the kids school bus running over Predator. Cartmen, then appears way too polite, and with a goatee. Confused, his friends realize they are in some creepy, alternate universe in which everyone is nice to them. Stanley travels home to find there is a goldfish waiting for him as a gift. Something is totally spooky. Suddenly, Cartmen appears again, this time acting utterly jerky, as usual. Stanley attempts to sleep as a lightning storm goes on outside.
As the lightning flashes on and off, we see Cartmen's persona continually switching back and forth--polite and goateed, rude and hairless. Everyone in town is confused by Cartmen's behavior. In the midst of the lightning storm we begin to see the fish is actually a murdering aquatic vertebrate. Clearly.
South Park Parallels
The parallel of the South Park episode rest in the Cartman character. The humor is, of course, found in that Cartman is a complete jerk in regular South Park, and so in the parallel situation, Cartman must be nice. You've gotta love that nice Cartman is the one with the goatee--but that normal South Park can't help but regard everything from the alternate universe as absolutely evil. Spock, of course, is wonderful in both universes in the "Mirror, Mirror" episode.
"Spooky Fish" also riffs on the movie Pet Semetary by explaining the evil murdering fish as originating from a dead pet burial ground.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Organian Costumes
found on spiralmusic.comTuesday, December 8, 2009
Excellence
Unfortunately, I do not have the source for this excellent photo. If anyone else does, please let me know. Thank you!Thursday, December 3, 2009
Futurama Star Trek
If you stretch really hard and far you can claim a link from Star Trek to numerous sci-fi television shows. I'm going to go ahead and assert that there are only a few degrees of separation between Star Trek, and one of my favorite sci-fi television series, Futurama. Even if you're not willing to go with me on such a link, it is the case that Futurama hosts multiple Star Trek references. Dear Calculon likes to shout "Great Shatner's Ghost!" when surprised. The futuristic society of the series also has a culture wide ban on Star Trek fandom. And, even better, the character Zap Branigan can easily be read as a Captain Kirk parody. Futurama is also brilliant for bringing in a variety of cultural critiques, and odd ball humor. Here's a moment many Star Trek devotees agree with.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Star Trek Cookies
If you're looking for a festive 'nom nom' way to celebrate that special occasion, Geeky Cookies offers up a few different kinds of Star Trek cookies.
Behold:
The Star Fleet Badge, One Dozen for $20
U.S.S. Enterprise Away Team (Shirts), One Dozen $20
Behold:
The Star Fleet Badge, One Dozen for $20
U.S.S. Enterprise Away Team (Shirts), One Dozen $20Order directly from their website. (They have a bunch of Mario Brothers, Yoshi, and Pokemon cookies too. But shh! I didn't mention those.)
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