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I have joined the twitting: https://twitter.com/#!/nomorenames01

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The prime directive is completely ignored when Picard really wants to ride a Centaur. Geordie sleeps through the whole episode by accident. http://twitter.com/#!/TNG_S8

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Painted up a whole squad of Glyans.  The base color is MK Green Tea Metallic.  I adore the color, and these guys finished off a bottle.  They're highlighted with MK Clover, Eggplant Metallic, and Kissed Pink.  Green pearl and gloss clearcoat gives them a nifty finish.

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The Max Toy Mini Crew My Vinyl painting adventures started last January with a Max Toy Co Eyezon, and a little less then a year later, I've painted one of each Max Toy Co mini vinyl I've been able to get my hands on (Negora and helmetless Lady Max haven't been released as blanks).  It's been a busy year.  Thanks to Mark Nagata for making such wonderful toys, and encouraging customizing.  Also

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My name in lights!  Well, first name.  On a website. Sounds like In Living Kolor Boston was a big success!  All the pieces from tghe show are up in the Lot F store.  Including mine, right up at the top.  I'd be grateful if you bought one, or two.  Or more.

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I joined a Gym.  Lovely, low-key, and close to work.  Big windows look out on a nice park. I went today, and exercised until I puked... It was very, very, very little exercise.  The trainer mentioned this.  I heaved in his wastebasket. Will I show my face there again?

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I've got pieces in two shows in October! I sent several pieces to the In Living Kolor show at the Lot F gallery in Boston, October 8th.  The show is hosted by Matt Walker of Dead Presidents Designs and Monster Kolor.  He was kind enough to invite me; the following pieces will be on display, though I won't be able to make the show, Boston is a bit of a drive from here. Officer Mutant, Chaos

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See the Navigation Bar up top?  There's a link to a new page: The Store!  I've added some of my custom toy projects for your buying pleasure!  Just the Glyos Dice Heads that I've been flogging for a while, but I will have more up later. The remaining Dice Heads are only $15 each, shipped.  That's cheap!

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Getting back into the blogging routine.  Picasa is a jiffy at uploading photos, I just need to figure out how to format them in my posts. Trekathalon resumes this week. Exactly one persons (me) are looking forward to this, but Trek is back up on Netflix on demand!  I also kinda missed it. More in-progress toy painting and customizing posts, and hopefully, a store where I can sell you my custom

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I'm still loving the Outer Spacemen from Four Horsemen Studios and Mel Birnkrant.  The sculpts are fantastic, the packaging is retro-brilliant (and reusable!), and the line has excellent vintage provenance.  I finished up Xodiac to complete my custom take on them last week.  Messed up his helmet though, and am waiting on another set to replace it.  The new sclupts in Waves 3 and 4 should be due

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I continue to stuff strings of LEDs in clear Glyos toys.  This one is a little more ambitious then the last, featuring lots of masked off stars.  Monster Kolor comes in to make sure he looks as good with the lights off. More after the jump. I need more clear Glyos toys, as I am fresh out.  The first version of this figure went to Matt Doughty as a thank-you.  This one is heading for the In

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Took years to put this together. Only a handful of people will get this, and none of them read this blog, but: The Bear can't point.  It was his only reason for existence, and he can't point.  Just one of the many missteps in the disaster of the Adult Swim toyline.  Still, pretty cool that any of these exist.

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In your pants. Almost forgot to plug my current ebay gubbins! DCU Classics Wave 18, and Transformers Collector Club Exclusive G2 Ramjet Ramjet sold out in a couple of days, and was a hot commodity for a bit.  His price has come down, but he's still the best iteration of the venerable Classic Seeker mold, I think. Great colors, lots of well-applied tampographs, and shiny foil stickers!  

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A big sploot of new customs, more after the break:         

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The Man Purse needs a new name. For one, my real Man Purse is wearing out, and I'm unlikely to replace it (what gives, J-Fold? No more leather messengers?). Second, Man-anything has accumulated irritating bro-culture/advertising connotations (you can't be a Man! unless all your products say Man!). Third, I may be trying to use this site to sell things, and I'd want the name to match my future,

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I've been itching to customize some of the new Outer Space Men figures, designed by Mel Birnkrant, and produced by The Four Horsemen.  Finally got around to it last weekend.  More pictures and writeup after the jump.I had a spare Beta Wave (pink) Metamorpho, and started there.  Metamorpho has a spiffy sction feature: three different faces that can be rotated with the knob on his head.  

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Glyos figures continue to be my favorite custom toy canvas.  See the slideshow above for my latest.  All painted with Monster Kolor.  The Armodoc is probably my favorite.  Black and Charcoal metallic, highlighted with orange pearl, Moondust Silver, and Lemonade Yellow.  Red details on the eyes were hand brushed.  I started customizing it with acrylic paints, and it languished due to my

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This Pheyden and his research team have spent to much time exploring The Edge of Space, and now their very physical existence has become fragile and ethereal!  These will be posted for sale on the October Toys Glyos boards, $25 + Shipping each.  Full writeup and more pictures after the jump. Inspired by the Dead President's Callgrim Custom Corps, these figures take advantage of the incredible

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The Electric Light Delphi. It's much easier to blog when I have interesting things to talk about, for example, the Electric Light Delphi, pictured above.  It's my latest and greatest custom Glyos toy.  Build details and overlong write-up after the jump. One of the most fascinating Glyos designs are (is?) the Delphi.  A race of cetacean-looking time travelers.  The Delphi have only been

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Monster Kolor is Awesome A follow up, and mea culpa to this post: How Not to Use Monster Kolor.  I bought an airbrush a few months back, and it's completely changed my view of MonsterKolor.  The paint was designed for an airbrush, and it is the finest airbrush paint I have found.  No thinning required, sprays smooth and consistent right from the bottle.  I've tried other airbrush paints as

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I have nothing snarky to say, this is a great shot. For once I'm going to praise the updated effects.  They look great, while preserving the spirit of the original models.  A seminal episode, and still great.  James Lileks writes lovingly about this episode all the time, and does it well.  One of his best is here (start reading about halfway through for the Doomsday relevant bits, but it's all

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Powered by Biomass! Anvilicious episode, but fun none the less.  Modern series have not realized the potential for red backdrops, and giant Papier-mâché snake heads.  Like I said before, I love it when Trek gets weird.  If the allegory wasn't beaten home throughout the episode, it's summed up with a laugh in the final minutes on the Enterprise.  Subtlety!

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Looks like my laziness pays off, as I had nothing new that would have been struck down by Blogger's little disaster.  Otherwise, Trekathalon has moved to indefinite hiatus.  There's a bunch of stuff in my Netflix que that is disc-only, and at this rate, I'll never get to it. More customs up soon.

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SALE! I dropped the price to $15, and I'll ship free!  Also refunded anyone who purchased at the $25+ shipping price. I put some of my custom toys up for sale at the October toys forum.  $25 each, plus shipping.  The dice are from Gamescience, and the bodies are Onell Design Glyos Glow-in-the-dark buildmen.  Painted with acrylics, and coated with Monster Kolor Pearls and Ultragloss.  They

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The exact moment goatees became eeevil. Never beam up in an ion storm, got that?  Much more to this episode then I remembered.  Especially the intrigue on the Mirrorverse enterprise.  Disappointed though we never saw the alt-Bones, was he good natured and friendly, but with a heart of EVIL!? Fun episode. Mystery Science Theater did a great parody in the episode, Last of the Wild Horses Always

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iSterilize I had forgotten how much Star Trek: The Movie rehashed this episode.  Just longer, boring, and with really ugly costumes. As for the episode itself, NOMAD is a great prop, and his wire-assisted hovering is still kind of unsettling.  I found the over-the-shoulder shots of NOMAD hilarious, and despite it all, the director did an impressive job making a refrigerator emote.  Though how

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Things I have been doing that are not blogging: Picking a fight with clinical depression, and losing. Having fun with my new airbrush (see picture at left). Put a pair of shoes that I love, but don't fit, on ebay. I've got a weeks worth of Trekathalon ready to go for next week, yay?

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Inyuk-chuk! Ah, the giant green space hand, I love weird episodes of Trek.  Poor Apollo just wants some humans to herd goats and have orgies and burn things in his honor like they did in the old days.  He's kind of a capricious jerk though, which is probably why the Federation doesn't just send him some colonists.  Instead, the enterprise Phasers his Gazebo-of-power into a little pile, and

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My Airbrush kit arrived.  I ordered it from a place in North Carolina.  The airbrush itself?  And Iwata Eclipse.  Their US arm?  Here in Portland, OR.  It's a funny world.  Now nothing in my possession is safe from a thorough airbrushing!  It is going to be a learning curve though. I'm spinning my wheels on new Trekathalon entries, it will return, eventually... The light rig sale did not go so

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Jeepers, is it Tuesday already? Trekathalon is up a day late. I bought an airbrush. Expensive, but it's something I always wanted, and it was on sale! I'd love to get it off the credit card though, so to those ends, I put the Light Rig on ebay:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120702066708#ht_2705wt_975

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The Jiffy Pop Wedding Collection. This episode shouldn't work.  It's campy, cornball, and to sincere, and yet, it does work.  I got the impression the old Vulcan Gal knew what was going on the entire time, from the challenge, to McCoy's 'treatment' for Kirk.  Very well put together episode.  When Trek was good enough to overcome the big pile of stinky-limburger that it could have been, it's a

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You know that really awful (but horribly infectious) Youtube video from that one talentless teen (No, the other one, no, the other one, no, the other one)?  The one that garnered 2 Million views this week, and a spot on Good Morning America for the young Autotune abuser? Satellite News revealed it's all Mike Nelson's fault. How could you Mike?  In the dystopian future of my nightmares that

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Oh no, I'm suffering from blog ennui! New trekathlon posts?  Meh.  (they're coming) Dead Presidents announced the winners of their Monster Kolor Neo-Hawaii contest. Who's that little red lump on the far right?  Why it's my shabbily painted Eyezon!   There must not have been enough entries, completely undeserved, but appreciated!

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With Season 1 finished, it's time to reflect, in bullet form! It's weird watching Star Trek without it's later institutions and conventions established. Though I wish they kept some of the ones here for later iterations. I liked that each ship and base had their own insignia and different uniforms. I'm a sucker for mid-60's architecture and design. The Enterprise needs to put some locks on their

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He represents the Lollipop Guild. An episode with an exclamation point in the title, so it must be good! Either that or Soundwave named it.  It's the attack of the Gallery of Regrettable Food!. Everything is solved by bright light that can apparently penetrates solid matter, but not cause blindness. Even Spock has no qualms about killing an entire species. I guess it's ok when they look like

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The Magic is in the Hole. This episode is chock full of Joan Collins, a time Doughnut,* and something that made Harlan Ellison angry!  It also won a Hugo award. Great acting, but unfortunately, the impact of the episode has been diminished, since time travel perils are now well-trodden ground for sci-fi geeks, bullets ahoy: I feel sorry for the poor vaporized bum, guess he had no impact on

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I have a terrible cold.  If anyone would like it, feel free to ask in the comments. Due to said cold, the last few episodes of Trekathalon, season 1 will be delayed, because coherence is difficult right now.

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Last night's Man or Astro Man/Octopus Project show rocket shoes, and socks off.  Pictures later, but I just wanted ya'll to know.  If they're playing anywhere near you, you owe it to yourself to go. I'm also partially deaf today.

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Matt Doughty continues to consistently release awesome figures in his Glyos series.  One of the last waves included a clear-vinyl rig, that just begged to be lit up.  So I obliged: I used a cheap IKEA set of LED's, powered by two AA batteries.  Only 10 lights to work with, so I had to be choosy with placement.  Once I figured out where I wanted the lights, I masked off the to-be-lit

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Is it bigger on the inside? The universe winks out of existence for a few seconds (didn't seem to have any adverse effects though?), and an alien named Lazarus and his Spaceman Spiff Saucer/TARDIS are responsible.  Or his alternate universe counterpart.  I think.  They both end up trapped in a dimensional corridor eternally fighting each other, or else the Universe will cease to exist. Nerd

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They're upset I stole this image from Wikipedia Wow, TOS Klingons seem so much more nuanced!  I really only remember them from The Trouble with Tribbles, so this was a bit of a revelation.  All the performances are solid, with John Colicos (Baltar!) standing out as the Klingon Commander. The plot is another Godlike Alien deus ex machina (the Organians this time), with the real highlight being

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Why am I so down about my continued interest in toys?  It's obvious: I'm living with my parents right now. Will have for about a year in May. In the room where I grew up. Cramming what had been a full life down to one room. I haven't felt like socializing, crafting, or communicating.  I've given up on most of my hobbies, due to lack of space, time, money, and biggest of all, energy.  I've

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Creeping Terror I keep mentioning how I grew up afraid of everything. Well, the Horta was in my top 5 Things-to-Be-Terrified-Of (#1: Yip Yip Martians).  I knew that evil lump was not to be trusted, and would  burn it's way through my wall as soon as I wasn't looking... Brrr. What was I saying?  Oh!  Devil in the Dark.  Great episode.  I'm shocked how well it holds up, even knowing how

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Looking at Toyfair images, thinking how broke I am, and how no plastic intrigue is going to make me happy, no matter how well engineered it is, or the quality of the paint application.  It may make me happy for a little while, but then there's still the nagging thought that I'm a grown man, looking wistfully at, and buying, toys.  And now I'm a grown man who can't afford frivolities, and I'm

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This week is going by a little to fast. My Mom had minor surgery this week, so my over-excited 'Devil in the Dark' post will be up tomorrow. ToyFair 2011 tempts with plastic delights.  LEGO, in particular, wants me to be forever broke and sad. I want to jump on this Neo - M.U.S.C.L.E.s bandwagon.  Other sources for episodic 'Trek commentary: Keckler's  great Television Without Pity Recaps.

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Mr. And Mrs. Green Jeans. I know this episode as a Mystery Science Theater punchline.  The Best Brain's used "I'm in love Jim!" as a riff, almost as much as "I am Kirok!" There was even a sketch.  But how does This Side of Paradise hold up as drama?  Not bad.  Everyone sells their role's, and the sound design is fantastic.  The sound of constant rushing wind makes Omicron Ceti VIII feel

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I accidentally a hat. I've never seen this episode before, and it both bored me, and brought out my pedantic geek side.  HARD.  Did the  Eminiar or the Vendikar take into account the Enterprise defensive capabilities?  What happens when people don't show up for disentigration?  Who monitors compliance of the excecutions?  Is it a lottery, or is everyone on the planet tracked?  How can a

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Sorry, slight emergency yesterday, new Trekathalon is below. I marked the Packer's Superbowl win by watching Giant Spider Invasion (and Monster a Go-Go).  I wasn't the only one: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=8745

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So pointy! I hope she doesn't run with those. I can't watch this episode without the perspective of Wrath of Khan (AKA: Dirty Dancing for boys, see the third comment),  which I've seen dozens of times, while I've only seen Space Seed twice, maybe?  Wrath of Khan makes it look like Kirk never followed up on any of his missions: Genocidal Superman and historical figure worthy of study?  Just put

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Well, the nothing happened very quickly this week.  I'm sorry for that.  Lets shoot for Monday on Trekathalon? And I bet you were asking yourself if I have a pimple in my nose.  Well I have a pimple in my nose, and it hurts.  IN MY NOSE folks. I am also sorry you read that.

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While I fail again to keep the Trekathalon updated, please enjoy The Visible Gamera and Foes, courtesy of Pink Tentacle.  I could lose an hour or two to that site. Trekathlon resumes tomorrow.  Have a few toy reviews to post as well, and a new sploot of items for ebay. Thanks for reading! -Seth

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Landru inside  *Bomm ba da dun bumm* An powerful force is making the inhabitants of the Bonanza backlot Beta III happy-zombies, but also insane with rage.  The Prime directive shows up, gets broken immediately, and paves the way for a bazillion plot devices to come. Kirk saves the day talking a computer to death, and ability which most of my coworkers share, and that he will use several more

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I would wear that, really. Kirk gets accused of negligence, and faces off with a bugnuts-crazy crew member.  Everything is wrapped up in voice-overred clips, the episode must have been running long. I want the suit that Kirk's lawyer (Elisha Cook) wears.  Actually the costuming is great overall in this episode, I like the early standard of different Starfleet Posts having different insignias.

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Corn Detasseling. Time travel shenanigans on then present-day earth!  Not the strongest of the many, many, time-travel Trek episodes.  Seems someone got a note that said 'lighten things up,' from the network execs:  this episode goes from serious to goofy so many times I got whiplash.  Majel Barrett doing a silly/sultry computer voice was fine, but I was less enthused with the accidentally

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It's a trap! Takes a little while for the 'Arena' part of this episode to get going, doesn't it?  I had completely forgotten the intrigue and action with the destroyed federation base, and the pursuit of the Gorn.  I really enjoyed that part, but then this episode's namesake kicks in, and it starts to drag. There's Ted Cassidy again as the Gorn commander.  Remeber how I thought he looked cool

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Grrr! Arrgh! I've been diving into custom toy painting recently.  While my usual water-based acrylics have served fine on most projects, custom toys are usually PVC or vinyl, and present some challenges.   Monster Kolor is a line of paint specifically formulated for plastic, and custom toy painting.  When used correctly, they produce amazing results. Specifically formulated to go straight from

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"Would you like to buy a leather mug?" The enterprise trips over another godlike alien.  This time it's Trelane (Name a 70's TV drama, William Campbell was a guest star), and he likes Renaissance Festivals. Yup, another plot that pales in comparison to later reinventions, done better.  Notably,  John de Lancie's Q, in The Next Generation, (similar to William Campbell, name a show, de Lancie's

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The motor!  We've thrown a rod! Is the episode title a riff on the Mercury Seven astronauts, or The Magnificent Seven, or Seven Samurai, or Seven Up? I'll stop that now... Spock crashes a shuttle, the stranded crew get testy and insubordinate (again!), then they wait for enough guest stars to get killed by giants so the rest can take off and be rescued. The goofy monsters are effective as

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The trouble with tribbles? There sure are plenty of naive super-advanced humanoids in the galaxy!  This episode's species is eager to manufacturer your idle thoughts into physical objects, which have a tendency to kill.  But it's ok, it's a temporary sort of death. Impaled Mcoy, and the plastic knight in armor really disturbed my younger self.  Have I mentioned I was scared of everything as a

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Some day, I will learn how to take a good picture. For some reason, I like dice.  I don't play RPG's, which multi-sided dice are most commonly associated with, but I lurv the little jewel-like dice produced for RPGs and Strategy Gaming. I also lurv Glyos!  So I combined them!  Glow-in-the-dark Zocchi GameScience dice, painted with Tamiya Clear paint, and with a custom peg added.  They still

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Hail Ming! Despite the IMDB screen-grab, I watched this one on DVD.  Was I disappointed with the updated effects?  Of course.  What's the point of doing an updated Romulan Warbird if you're still going to repeat the footage three or four times?!  Plus I didn't see a good view of the bird of prey livery on the bottom of the ship.  Either I wasn't paying attention (probable), or that was a major

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23rd Century Denny's. Old hammy actor Karidian (Arnold Moss), feels threatened by younger hammy actor Kirk, menwhile Karidian's ca-razy daughter (Barbara Anderson) uses exploding phasers and Windex to silences people who don't enjoy their Shakespear troupe. Karidian is also Kodos (where's Kang?), a mass-murderer.  All the guest stars end up dead, just like Hamlet! Can you tell I was bored

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Meet the Verte' from Anthro.  From the back, it looks like something HR Gieger would create.  Only it won't frieghten co-workers (that may be a drawback), and is likely is incredibly comfortable.  I've been searching for the perfect office chair since I was 17, and this may be it.  At $1500 (or only one penny with purchase of a $12,000 desk), it's going to take a while to save enough money.

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Trekathalon is on Hiatus again, I watched a bunch of episodes out of order, and OCD compels me to go back and do it properly. Should have my opinions of RealD 3D up soon, know you all were holding your breath for that. I bought some Febreeze Glade Fabric Refresher to take the stink out of my hand-me-down office chair, and now my cube, and my person, smell like the cheapest perfume imaginable.  

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Plodding, humorless, and excessively gruesome, Tron: Legacy is best avoided.  Garret Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, and Bruce Boxlightener do a decent job with a terrible script, while Jeff Bridges takes The Dude up to eleven for his Kevin Flynn performance.  He may be doing an ok job as CLU, but the digital youngified Jeff Bridges is to awful and distracting to notice anything else.   Lets make a deal

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"I spilled my oatmeaaaaaal!" Not much to say on this one, the Enterprise crew finishes watching the old pilot episode's footage, and dumps Pike on Talos. I'm pretty sure the Talosians just let Pike imagine he walked inside, and he's still sitting out in the cold.  Poor guy.

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Trekathalon resumes today, I had a hard time getting the exact right screengrab for the second half of The Menagerie.  It doesn't really matter, but it was enough to completely derail my efforts. Work has also been incredibly busy, but yay, I still have a job! Despite being rather broke, I still spend money.  And on completely useless things!  Like these lovely customs from Onell Design:

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Meet George Jetson! Watched this one on IMDB, so no mewling over updated effects!  Instead I will lavish praise on the old ones.  See that landscape?  That is beautiful.  The matte painter did an excellent job.  It's that kind of thing that fires a kid's imagination. The episode?  Not bad for a bookended-clip-show.  All this time, I thought Kirk was being court-marshaled for causing Pike to be

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Norman Well, some of it anyway.  The base figure is an Onell Design Glyos Founder.  I sculpted the head, hands, and feet from Sculpy Primo.  The paint job is a mix of spray enamel and acrylics. It's got it's messy bits, but I'm very happy with it, and I think the figure's recepient was too, as this was part of the 2010 Glyos Exchange (they called it secret santa, but I don't celebrate

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"This way to the probulator!" Yay, a classic episode I that surpasses my recollections!  Very enjoyable, even Anthony D. Call, as the insubordinate Lt. Crazypants, who redeems himself by volunteering to keep Clint Howard company. Was there any paperwork with that?  Did they leave him some food?  Clothes?  Cursory review of Clint Howard's cultural practices?  No?  Ok then; the Federation played

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So that tidy profit I made on ebay?  Funny story: the one big Transformer that I had made the profit with?  Turns out, I had super glued parts of it together, making it useless as a Transformer. Of course, I only remembered this when I was packing it to ship out.  Now my Japanese buyer is most likely very confused by his refund, and I'm in the red. Sometimes I wish I was smart.

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Thanks to everyone who bid on my last round of ebay items.  I offered free international shipping, so I'm going to lose my shirt on a few items, but made a tidy sum on some others. Also I will be shipping to Italy for the first time.  I am filled with trepidation on that one. Live and learn!  Thanks again.

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Hahaha, yesterdays post, whew.  So sad and dreary.  Sorry.  How about some nostalgia: At a Target near you. A reproduction of circa 1980 Star Wars packaging, with modern day action figures.  I have a sinking feeling I'm going to buy this, despite have no money or space for it.  Just look at those clean, beautiful graphics!  And there's a Lando!  And Luke's arm comes off!  Sure hasbro has done

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-86656405618020018302010-12-02T09:49:00.000-08:002010-12-02T09:49:13.215-08:00

It's been a dark winter in my corner of the pacific northwest, and inertia builds up fast.  Our Winter Death Blast 2010 didn't materialize, it's just our usual damp and cold.  You would think I would be used to it after 29 years. The nights seem darker somehow. The road swallows light like a black hole, reflections look greasy and mean.  The night is malevolent, and I simply want to stay in bed.

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Custom Crayboth, Retnox, the Dice Heads, and Regent Phanost I've been smitten with Onell Designs Glyos figures.  The concept is an open source toyline, inspired by 70's and 80's classics like Micronauts.  They're fantastic fun, reconfigurable, and made with a great deal of care and imagination.  The community also encourages customization.  I've always been artistically inclined, and these

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-7336414583715550662010-11-25T21:42:00.000-08:002010-11-26T09:47:10.328-08:00

I just dumped a bunch of collectible flotsam on ebay.  Star Wars figures, Transformers (including my Classics Devastator), some Godzilla bits (Adowable Bullmark Mini-vinyls? Check!), and a few other miscellaneous items. My my world of ebay wonders A lot of that stuff, I have to wonder what I was thinking when I bought it, especially the Serenity Money pack.  I love Firefly, but what did I plan

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"Blue paper bits down three, yellow up one..." Man, if Kirk isn't getting his shirt ripped off, he's being strapped to some mad-scientist's diabolical thingy.  Today's diabolical thingy is a mind-wiper designer to pacify criminals. Guest stars include the lovely Marianna Hill (who may have been in Cheif Zabu, which may or may not actually exist, but she was neither Zack Norman, or Sammy, so

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Hot Wolverine-scratching-Hulk's-back action! Sticking Handful of Heroes figures on my monitor at work...  Ok, that wasn't my entire productive output, but it sure feels like it.  Day before a holiday, just enough people in the office working that I can't tinker with the license servers like I need to.  Not quite enough people to keep me busy with random tasks. Other pathetic things: I had to

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Say G'rups again, and Imma smack ya. Between the Twilight Zone, and Trek, CBS had creepy children down. Even as a kid myself, these kids irritated and unsettled me.  I was suprised how the scenes of unseen children taunting managed to raise the hairs on the back of my neck. But then I start thinking about the episode, and it maked very little sense.  How come the planet was exactly like Earth?

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It's like a Postcard from my Subconscious. Robot Parts?  Are little girls made of robot parts?  I think that's the theme of this episode, it's unclear though.  What is clear is my recollection of this episode from childhood: Naked Shatner on a spinning plate, with a haemonculous, beautiful women in revealing space overalls, giants in puffy costumes, bottomless pits, robots.  That's TOS in a

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-42944950038753973442010-11-22T16:05:00.000-08:002010-11-22T16:07:09.038-08:00

In my corner of the screaming moist  the Pacific Northwest, this is how we react to the prospect of snow: if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('a2ceaf25-e3a7-4c7e-9148-152340b049e8'); Courtesy of The Portland Mercury.

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Man or Astro-Man? is going to play the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland...  I may cry.  So beautiful... Thanks to 16bit.com for the tip, more West Coast tour dates here.  Now The Epoxies just need to get back together, and everything is golden. Trekathalon resumes next week, sorry about that, things got really busy at work.

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Dishwater, Despair, Disappointment... Mini is doing it's best not to tempt me away from my 2006 Cooper S, the Countryman configurator went up, and it's glitchy.  The car itself appears expensive and dull. Remember when The Amazing Race was still amazing?  It's been a while, I'll admit.  Reality Blurred mirrors my feelings on last night's episode: Clue-Eating Goat Most Endearing Part of Race.

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-46788267501559370702010-11-12T14:30:00.000-08:002010-11-19T06:41:40.595-08:00

Blur-B-Q (TM James Lileks) Once every three years, I try the McRib.  I'm due.  Hit the break for the full rundown. 1:51- In the car, heading back to the office. McDonald's food smells vaguly like a barnyard. Chicken or Cow Manure? No idea, first noticed it around 2006. 1:57- High-C Orange. More fast food places need to offer Caffeine free high-fructose corn syrup. 1:58 - The McRib box

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Still waiting on Netflix.  How about some brightly colored mini vinyls to tide everyone over? Bullmark legends, most of the HMV series 1, and all but the regular colored Hedorah from series 2. Mogura is the only disappointment, he should be much chubbier.  Otherwise these are some of the most charming toys I own.

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-5350041330023294762010-11-11T12:45:00.000-08:002010-11-11T12:45:36.839-08:00

Brief hiatus to the Trekathalon, as I wait on the next disc from Netflix, and haven't had time to watch an episode on IMDB. To busy to watch TV on the internet?!  Unpossible!

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Looks like we have a new 'Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt' on our hands.  Presenting: The AutoExec Steering-wheel mounted desk! Amazon.com: AutoExec The customer reviews and user pictures are hilarious.  The steering wheel in the product photo is also upside down.  Designed by a person who has never operated a car? Perhaps.

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I don't really want to know What Memory Alpha has to say about this... I really shouldn't be having this much trouble with an old Star Trek episode: The Enterprise burns out their lithium supply (when did it turn into dilithium?) saving the crew of an unidentified ship.  The captain is a conman, Harry Mudd, and three mail-order brides he was taking, errm, somewhere.  He's giving them a pill

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ACTING! This plot.  Jimminy, this plot.  A transporter accident [splits Kirk into a good but ineffectual twin and evil but charismatic twin], the crew has to [convince weak kirk and strong kirk to hug it out on a transporter pad] before [Sulu and an away team freeze to death]. A valuable lesson about [human nature] is learned.    Replace the variables, and you've got three dozen other Trek

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-54857510265130061742010-11-04T22:25:00.000-07:002010-11-04T22:25:19.411-07:00

It's confirmed.  Death by flocking gun. Star Fleet really needs to work on their hostile environment training.  While investigating a mysteriously perished science team, a redshirt takes his gloves off to pick his nose, and is immediately infected by evil red water.  Evil red water makes everyone act drunk, and is passed through physical contact.  Everyone but Bones (who is bright enough to

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Attacked by Difference Clouds!  It's yellow shirt day on the Enterprise, and special guest victims Gary Lockwood (two years to 2001) and the gorgeous Sally Kellerman (four years to MASH) get bad contacts and demigod powers after a trip outside the galaxy. Lockwood gnaws scenery something fierce, but the episode is entertaining. Shatner also gets to wield the nifty Phaser Rifle prop. So did

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The nice chaps at Hooniverse started a new blog in October, Atomic Toasters.  I'll let them explain: "We set this site up as a refuge; a hiding place for those who are tired of being harassed to buy the newest, the latest, the greatest, and the highest-tech. It’s a place for people to learn to love technology all over again. It’s a place for people like us. " I didn't learn about it until today

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Satellite News has announced the titles for Volume XX of the continuing Shout! Factory Mystery Science Theater releases: Project Moonbase Master Ninja I Master Ninja II The Magic Voyage of Sindbad The two Master Ninja episodes are a surprise, as they were mashed together episodes of a failed TV series, and the studio that did the mashing has long disappeared.  They tend to put me asleep, but

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Go cry emo demigod! Is it pronounced Charlie X, or Charlie 10?  Either way, a nice script completely undermined by Robert Walker's creepy Charlie, and the fact that he doesn't look 17. I'm amused by the thought of ultra powerful aliens giving a child demigod-powers to entertain him; like a bachelor uncle jingling keys for a baby. Something else interesting, Spock and Uhura are practically

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Meanwhile...  In Photoshop. Ah, the Salt Vampire.  Unique to me as one of the few TV monsters I wasn't terrified of.  I was scared of anything vaguely monstrous on TV, but more on that in later episodes.  It's an testament to the writing of the episode that even as a little kid, I got the point that the creature was more to be pitied then feared. I shouldn't be surprised that William Shatner

Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00680252958112881245noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-37445232082622611072010-10-30T22:34:00.000-07:002010-10-30T23:12:33.754-07:00

RUINED FOREVER! Growing up, two shows defined my Saturday evenings, and since I don't want to revisit Hee Haw, I'm looking to Star Trek for a hefty dose of nostalgia. This was prompted by an increasing disappointment with my Netflix selections, and the realization that, while I've seen most every episode of Star Trek, I don't actually remember them. Odds are I'm the gazillionth nerd to blog a

Seth Lnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059182845130141954.post-44725913460964147492010-10-22T16:30:00.000-07:002010-10-25T09:45:46.729-07:00

Having a wonderful time playing around with the Blogger template designer.  So many creative people have contributed such nifty stuff.  What do you all think of the new Science! background?I'm asking a question, as if I have a readers.  Ha ha ha, Delusional!  Edit: Replaced a stock Google picture with one of my own.  A nuclear jet engine prototype parked outside EBR-1 in central Idaho.Nuclear.

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Purged the blog today.  None of it was good.So what now?  Reviews!  Science proves the Internet needs more review and commentary on irrelevant things!  It's a fact!

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