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bloginhood: Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 2
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 2. We'll start with Q Bert. Not because we want to, but because today's lineup is more or less universally weak, so, why not? Shifting gears now, let's take a look at Pole Position. Hybrid. A couple of teens spending their days on a futuristic Nascar circuit, and fighting crime in the off hours. Throw in overly-cute young...And j...
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Science Fiction Challenge II | Stage and Canvas
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Exploring the arts, one piece at a time…. August 28, 2010. Science Fiction Challenge II. One of science fiction’s quirks is that it’s more encompassing than specified genres like mystery so not as clearly defined. That’s one reason why I like it, but also think it’s detrimental and confusing for some. It seems that what turns a lot of people off from the genre is the stigma that it’s all aliens, robots, outer space, scientific terminology, and. And HG. Wells to contemporary literature like. And thought o...
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bloginhood: September 2014
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Monday, September 15, 2014. One Last Pic - the Souvenir Not Taken. There was one last photo I almost forgot to post. Good thing I remembered, because this one was just too good — or too horrible — to pass up. Do some reading on ancient Roman hygiene practices.). Behold (above): the do-it-yourself paper executioner's diorama. Fans out there) and his victim on the rack. I had actually walked past the thing in a get-me-out-of-t...
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bloginhood: RIP Leonard Nimoy
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Tuesday, March 03, 2015. Sad news the other day of Leonard Nimoy's passing. A director, writer, photographer, and poet, Nimoy was best known as an actor (yes, I'm deliberately leaving out singer, because we shall not speak of the Bilbo Baggins song). But because of his iconic role in the Star Trek. For the "Code Nimoy" alert. Spock's death in Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan. The viewer can also see from Valeris' reaction th...
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bloginhood: December 2014
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Monday, December 01, 2014. A Couple of Science Fiction-Related Causes that could Use Your Support this Holiday Season. The first is a fundraiser for author Spider Robinson and his daughter Terri. The second is a call for subscription to. Saturday Morning Cartoons - Shows that Jumped from Saturdays to Weekdays After School. In any case, here are a couple of good Saturday morning shows that made the jump to weekday afternoons:.
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bloginhood: January 2015
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Saturday, January 31, 2015. Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 2. We'll start with Q Bert. Not because we want to, but because today's lineup is more or less universally weak, so, why not? Shifting gears now, let's take a look at Pole Position. Hybrid. A couple of teens spending their days on a futuristic Nascar circuit, and fighting crime in the off hours. Throw in overly-cute young...And j...
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bloginhood: Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 3
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Saturday, February 07, 2015. Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 3. But we'll make it all relevant. Just one more time. Here on the Saturday Morning Cartoon Rewatch:. Everybody knows who Mario is. But do you remember a simpler time in the digital plumber's life? Before his brother Luigi started tagging along? Before the spinoff go-cart races? When he wasn't even the one on the branding? The c...
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bloginhood: Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 1
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Sunday, January 25, 2015. Saturday Morning Cartoons - When Video Games Ruled the Airwaves Part 1. Video game-inspired cartoons were so popular that there were too many for me to include in just one post, so this is going to be a multiparter over the next couple of weeks. Grab a stack of quarters and tell the kid behind you that you're gonna be a while — it's time for the Saturday morning cartoon rewatch! View my complete pro...
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bloginhood: Saturday Morning Cartoons - Robotech
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Saturday Morning Cartoons - Robotech. Once in a while, an anime series explodes into global consciousness in a way that gets everyone talking, and becomes a benchmark for a generation. In the mid-late 70s, it was Star Blazers. Originally Space Battleship Yamato. To the Japanese audience), a show that made a huge imprint on my mind as a little kid; meanwhile, in Quebec, they had Captain Harlock.
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bloginhood: Mini Review 6 - Dangerous Women, Under the Moons of Mars, Traitor's Blade, and The Rapture of the Nerds
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Babbling relentlessly about science fiction, fantasy, and all points in between. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Mini Review 6 - Dangerous Women, Under the Moons of Mars, Traitor's Blade, and The Rapture of the Nerds. A bit of a mixed bag this time around in the mini book reviews: a couple of anthologies, a trip to the post-singularity future, and a Three Musketeers. Inspired fantasy. We'll start with Dangerous Women. Then jump out to Under the Moons of Mars. Take a look at Traitor's Blade. Stories. And ...