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The American Conservative, June 2010
I’m a strange sort of American, one of a handful who has reached middle age without ever having read To Kill a Mockingbird or seen the movie based on it. Evidently Bill Kauffman also avoided the novel...
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Ambrose Bierce and The Man Without Illusions
Several weeks ago, The Nation ran a review-essay about Ambrose Bierce. A few days before happening on this piece, I’d my old Dover Thrift Edition collection of Bierce’s Civil War stories, a paperback...
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The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks...
I cannot allow you to approach my Sugar Smacks. It was 45 years ago last night that Star Trek was first broadcast, which means that it was 45 years ago this morning that kids first went to school and...
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May the Great Bird of the Galaxy Bless Your Planet
From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, I watched Star Trek about 4 times a week. I’ve had occasion to watch it since, and it holds up. It’s a good show, and an interesting specimen of 1960s...
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In which I demonstrate that I am the world’s nerdiest nerd
In a recent email exchange with the cofounders of this blog, known here as VThunderlad and Lefalcon, I shared some thoughts about Star Trek, including a synopsis of an idea for a new Star Trek movie....
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I disagree with David Gerrold
A friend of mine posted a link to some remarks David Gerrold wrote on Facebook on 17 February. Mr Gerrold is responding to this essay by William Lehman. I have some reservations about Mr Gerrold’s...
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RIP Leonard Nimoy
Here are some links people have been sending me since Leonard Nimoy died: 1. Sugar Smack Spock It is illogical to suppose that you can touch my Sugar Smacks and live 2. 20 Cool Things Nimoy Did Other...
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David Morgan-Mar’s “Planet of Hats”
I like the original Star Trek and I like web comics, so it should be no surprise that I like David Morgan-Mar’s “Planet of Hats,” a web comic that recapitulates the original series at the rate of one...
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The dead end above us
A recent note on Slate about Tom Gauld’s Mooncop discusses Mr Gauld’s vision of life in a decrepit and soon-to-be-abandoned lunar colony as “the residue of an older fantasy,” of the Cold War-era dream...
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