A creative sort
“Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders,” now on home video and released to theaters for one day only, is no Miyazaki, but it’s a loving homage to a particular sliver of pop culture history that turned out to be much more fun than I expected (and I’m an original fan of the’66 series). Continue reading “New Batman feature a time machine to 1966”
Once upon a time, in one of the many hobbies into which I threw much of my energy and that my poor family had to endure, I tried my hand at podcasting. Under the stage name of Michael Harvee (Harvey was my mother’s maiden name), I managed to churn out a bunch of episodes of two podcasts, “Here’s How To Talk” and “Odd TV.” They were quite polished and entertaining, if I do say so myself. Continue reading “Be a part of the ‘Audio-Free Podcast’”
On this, the 50th anniversary of the premiere of “Star Trek,” I’d like to offer what I consider to be the quintessential episode of The Original Series. In other words, if I encountered someone who had never seen a single episode of the original “Trek” and was curious as to what all the fuss was about, this is the episode I would recommend to them. Continue reading “The perfect ‘Star Trek’ episode”
I’ve told this story a million times before, but on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary I’m going to tell it again. Fifty years ago today — well, tonight — I was downstairs in the TV department of G.C. Murphy at Town & Country Plaza in Pensacola, Fla., watching the first episode of a television series that I had been eagerly anticipating for months. My mother was off somewhere in the store, buying school supplies and clothes. (And no, I don’t know why we were school-shopping on a Thursday night.) Continue reading “This weren’t no kids’ show”