Alas, lacking cable, I won’t be able to watch it in all its glory. But I do hope the ratings top the final episode of American Idol.
Here’s a longer trailer:
It really does look like everything I long for in a movie called Sharknado.
Sharknado Premieres Tomorrow (Plus: Longer Trailer)
July 10th, 2013Interesting Book and History Auction
July 9th, 2013Including that super rare Abraham Lincoln set that I mentioned before. Plus letters from George Washington, etc.
Lot’s of interesting stuff (though very little even remotely SF), but I’m about to go to sleep, so can’t do more than mention it in passing…
A Richard Matheson TV Obscurity
July 8th, 2013Here’s a science fiction TV show episode, “Young Couples Only,” I’ve never heard of, based on a Richard Matheson story, and starring…Peter Lorre!
One reason I haven’t heard of it was that it was part of the Studio 57 anthology series, which aired on The DuMont Television Network, the ill-fated network that folded before I was born.
Like almost everything else in the world, it’s on YouTube:
Shoegazer Sunday: School of Seven Bells’ “My Cabal”
July 7th, 2013School of Seven Bells are a band from New York City named after the mythical pickpocket school. They started out as a trio and are now down to a duo. “My Cabal” was evidently their first single, and is a pleasant, dreampop-y sort of number.
A Random Assortment of Crap
July 5th, 2013Next week: Real posts!
But for a lazy Friday night, you get this instead.
Missing My Prize Fight Debut
July 3rd, 2013I had a dream the other night where I was late for my boxing debut.
The boxing arena seemed to be on the edge of a large shopping mall, and I had to ask directions to find it. I heard my name announced as the next fighter as I was entering the building, but I couldn’t seem to find my way down to what was presumably the ring (which I never came in sight of). It was less like Spinal Tap being lost backstage than the building being larger, older and more Gothic than I expected. At one point I saw some sort of rickety, extensible cherry picker/dunking stool/extending bridge contraption, which looked like it might deposit me over a wall where I needed to go, but looked too dangerous to try. Also, I noticed I wasn’t wearing shoes, which I was pretty sure was a breach of boxing rules.
I woke up before I ever got to the ring.
Shoegazer Sunday: Blind Mr. Jones’ “Mesa”
June 30th, 2013Blind Mr. Jones was a UK Shoegazer band from the early 1990s. “Mesa” is from their second and last album, Tatooine. Since they broke up right after it’s release, presumably they were not the shoegaze droids the public was looking for…
Brief Follow-Up to the “Lori Ruff” Mystery
June 29th, 2013The Seattle Times has various documents up about her life, to see if anyone out there can figure out who she actually was.
Nowhere Woman
June 25th, 2013Here’s the fascinating mystery behind Lori Ruff’s life. For starters, Lori Ruff wasn’t Lori Ruff: she had changed her name from Becky Sue Turner.
The problem is, she wasn’t Becky Sue Turner either, since the real Becky Sue died in 1971.
Her story “traces a path through California and Nevada, Idaho and Arizona and finally Texas.”
As of now, they still don’t know her real name.
