If you're a Trekkie, but not a fan of Deep Space Nine, you owe it yourself to watch DS9's fifth season episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations".
If you're have a casual familiarity with Star Trek, particularly the original series, you owe it yourself to watch DS9's fifth season episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations".
Scratch all of the above. Just go watch DS9's fifth season episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations".
This episode was produced in celebration of Star Trek's 30th anniversary, and it paid tribute to the original series by adding the DS9 crew to the classic TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles".
This could have been an epic disaster. It could have come off as a tacky attempt to mix DS9 with the original series. Instead, it is a masterfully done episode full of comedic moments and tributes to the original series.
Shortly after posting my previous post regarding the Wii U, I discovered a blog created by a gamer who shares my nostalgia for the early days of gaming. He is also a fan of Nintendo. If you're a Nintendo fan, or just gaming in general, I recommend that you check it out: Jewelarchon Gaming.
His July 8th post titled Back in the Day, When I was Young captures the same nostalgia that I have for gaming history and Nintendo in general. Like me, his first experience with the Mario Bros. was in the game Mario Bros. on an Atari console. His post also focuses on the fun of gaming, something I also mentioned in my previous post (in my case, because I believe that Nintendo is still the embodiment of fun gaming).
The obvious, easy answer is that I’m a big fan of Nintendo.
But that doesn’t mean that I love everything that Nintendo produces. For example, I mostly abandoned my Wii in the later years of its life because I was baffled that Nintendo still did not have a game system capable of HD. (I still want to play the Super Mario Galaxy games in full HD!)
I didn’t purchase a Wii U when it launched. If I remember correctly, it was the trailers for Super Mario 3D World that pushed me over the fence.
I recently started reading a book called Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon. It has a quote by David Bowie that says "The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." This is one of the reasons I love Bowie. He is honest. He is also a great painter.
That is why today's song of the day is my all time favorite Bowie song, Strangers When We Meet. The song was released on 2 separate albums. the first was The Buddha of Suburbia in 1993. Only to be re-recorded in 1995 for the album Outside. (This is the version I prefer)
My phone of choice of an iPhone. My tablet of choice is an iPad. Until recently, my desktop/laptop OS of choice was Windows, but I recently purchased Macbook Air.
Here’s a fact that many people don’t seem to be aware of: Just because you choose to use one piece of technology, that doesn’t mean the competing technology is crap.
On this date in 1967, the Monkees started a tour, with an opening act called The Jimmy Hendrix Experience.
That is why today’s song of the day is called Nine Times Blue performed by The Monkess. It was written by Mike Nesmith. It was never officially released while the band was together, but it was performed live on the Johnny Cash show.
For years I always thought that Mother Mary in the song Let It Be, was about Jesus’s mother. I was wrong. It was in fact about Paul’s mother. She died when he was 14 years old. According to McCartney, he had vivid dreams of his mother during the end of the Beatles, and she said to him “It will be all right, just let it be.”
I think the lyrics take on a little more meaning this way.
These days, most successful TV shows have very serialized storylines. Generally, this makes it more exciting for the audience as they become engaged in a plot line that spans the course of one or more seasons. I enjoy many of these shows. In fact, my favorite show that is currently airing is 'Marvel’s Agents of Shield'.
However, it seems that TV shows that have standalone episodes week to week has become a lost art. The disadvantage of serialized TV, is, when you want to go back and watch a random episode, you might be lost (even if it does have a “previously on…” segment before the episode).
