The absolute shit that is coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth is just…
I can’t even.
I’m writing this on Thursday, when I should (finally) be packing, because my daughter is picking me up at 1:30 this afternoon for my flight to Denver and the Comic Con. But this column appears on Monday afternoon and I’ll still be in the Mile High City, so I got up early, made myself a cup of tea, and sat down to talk about how I’m looking forward to the convention, my first in years…
… but I put on Morning Joe (on MSNBC) and I’m sitting here with my mouth open and my political side spinning as I watch Joe and Mika and Willie and their panel and their guest report on and talk about the absolute shit that is coming out of the Republican nominee’s mouth.
I can’t even.
I’m writing this on Thursday, when I should (finally) be packing, because my daughter is picking me up at 1:30 this afternoon for my flight to Denver and the Comic Con. But this column appears on Monday afternoon and I’ll still be in the Mile High City, so I got up early, made myself a cup of tea, and sat down to talk about how I’m looking forward to the convention, my first in years…
… but I put on Morning Joe (on MSNBC) and I’m sitting here with my mouth open and my political side spinning as I watch Joe and Mika and Willie and their panel and their guest report on and talk about the absolute shit that is coming out of the Republican nominee’s mouth.
- 6/20/2016
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
“People call those imperfections, but no, that’s the good stuff” – Robin Williams as Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting (1997)
The first few times it was cute. But the joke got really tired, really fast.
By now, almost exactly 36 years later, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been greeted by those words since Mork & Mindy debuted on September 14, 1978. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to smile and do a make-believe laugh in answer to that query.
I can’t count the number of times when what I really wanted to say to the person who thought he was Mr. Originality was “Shezbat!”
I was watching Hardball With Chris Matthews on MSNBC when the news broke last Monday. When the “Breaking News” banner interrupted the show, I thought the announcement was going to be something awful about Isis, like the terrorist group had...
The first few times it was cute. But the joke got really tired, really fast.
By now, almost exactly 36 years later, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been greeted by those words since Mork & Mindy debuted on September 14, 1978. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to smile and do a make-believe laugh in answer to that query.
I can’t count the number of times when what I really wanted to say to the person who thought he was Mr. Originality was “Shezbat!”
I was watching Hardball With Chris Matthews on MSNBC when the news broke last Monday. When the “Breaking News” banner interrupted the show, I thought the announcement was going to be something awful about Isis, like the terrorist group had...
- 8/18/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
An actor who was not afraid to take chances in the 1960s, and continued a television career that lasted well into his golden years, has died. William Windom was suffering from congestive heart failure in his northern California home, according to CBS News. He was 88. Genre fans would easily recognize Windom as Commodore Matt Decker, the unshaven Starfleet officer upset that he was rescued from a lost command in the popular "Star Trek" episode "Doomsday Machine." The episode was written by Norman Spinrad, and was actually a play on Moby Dick's Capt. Ahab with the original intention of casting popular villain character actor Robert Ryan to the role. Windom was cast instead, and some of the harshness of the character was toned down, according to Memory Alpha, in an effort to make sure ...
- 8/25/2012
- GeekNation.com
For years, the cast and crew behind the high-production (at least from fan standards) "Star Trek: Phase II" released episodes of Jim Kirk and the USS Enterprise, all while CBS Television -- which owns the rights to Star Trek -- turned its head. But that ended late last month when "Phase II" executive producer and star James Cawley received a cease and desist letter from CBS Television, telling him they could not move forward with a "lost" script from writer Norman Spinrad. "We fully appreciate and respect the passion and creativity of the Star Trek fan and creative communities," CBS said in a statement, according to The New York Times. "This is simply a case of protecting our copyrighted material, and the situation has been amicably resolved." Cawley, who says he has worked hard ...
- 4/1/2012
- GeekNation.com
Now CBS, but once Paramount Pictures, have had little to say about the many internet fan series based on their property of Star Trek (Hidden Frontier, Intrepid, Farragut and New Voyages: Phase II to name just a few) over the years. They clearly saw a workable, symbiotic relationship with fan productions and the mainstream TV shows and movies. As long as the fans never changed the conical nature of the established main characters (be it Tos or its many spin-offs), they were given (a mostly) free rein to expand the Star Trek Universe. But recently, someone within CBS, or over at Paramount, have suddenly raised a red alert.
It all began back in October when a fan approached Norman Spinrad, who wrote the episode The Doomsday Machine, to autograph the script for another episode of Star Trek Gene Roddenberry commissioned him to write in 1967 called He Walked Among Us. The...
It all began back in October when a fan approached Norman Spinrad, who wrote the episode The Doomsday Machine, to autograph the script for another episode of Star Trek Gene Roddenberry commissioned him to write in 1967 called He Walked Among Us. The...
- 3/29/2012
- by spaced-odyssey
- doorQ.com
Its ongoing mission to seek out new life and new civilizations that do not conform to intellectual property laws and destroy them, CBS has put a stop to plans to adapt Norman Spinrad’s long-lost original Star Trek script “He Walked Among Us,” which the author had been preparing to film with the fan group Star Trek: New Voyages, some 45 years after last laying eyes on it. As previously reported, Spinrad hoped to bring his original, abandoned screenplay to life as part of the popular web series Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, and in the meantime had begun ...
- 3/28/2012
- avclub.com
A Star Trek script that‘s been lost since 1967 has been returned to its author, Norman Spinrad, and now the fan film group Star Trek: New Voyages is making plans to bring it to life (or at least, people on the Internet) this summer, some 45 years after it was first abandoned. It all began when a fan recently brought him a copy to autograph, and Spinrad—a Trekker favorite for his episode, “The Doomsday Machine”—surprisingly found himself reunited with his original draft of “He Walked Among Us,” a 1963 script Spinrad wrote which “finds the crew of ...
- 3/5/2012
- avclub.com
It was meant to be a vehicle designed for actor Milton Berle. Instead, it ended up in Gene Roddenberry's wastebasket -- at the insistence of the original scribe -- and was considered lost forever. But now a lost "Star Trek" script is back, and despite his feelings on it, Norman Spinrad wants to ensure fans have a chance to see not only the good, but the bad in Star Trek. Spinrad, who wrote the popular "Star Trek" episode "Doomsday Machine," had written another script as well -- "He Walked Among Us." Spinrad wrote the script in 1967 for the show's second season. According to Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha, a Federation health food nut takes over a planet, and in violation of the Prime Directive, becomes a god on the planet, and makes it almost impossible to have him removed without disrupting ...
- 2/21/2012
- GeekNation.com
Since I was a teenager, one of my favorite science-fiction writers has been Norman Spinrad. Of course, to call him a science-fiction writer is tremendously reductive, because his writing has encompassed historical fiction, political commentary and cultural critique. But when I encountered him, he was part of a renegade group of science-fiction writers who were pushing the genre’s boundaries of form and content. He was collected by Harlan Ellison in his Dangerous Visions series, which is where I first read him. Later I stumbled across a signed copy of Norman’s excellent and now astonishingly prescient tale of the media and government conspiracy, Bug Jack Barron (once set to be adapted by Costa Gavras starring Jack Nicholson!) in...
- 8/26/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In time for Halloween, the editors of Weird Tales debuted a newly enhanced version of their website, WeirdTalesMagazine.com.
According to a press release, the following elements have been added:
1. Downlaod a complete issue, free. For readers who've heard of Weird Tales but want a closer look before they plunk down their hard-earned cash, they're offering -- for a limited time only -- a free, full Pdf download of the July/August issue, chock full of strange sorcery, angelic gangster wars, and mecha-telepathic orphans. Featuring original fiction from Norman Spinrad, Nick Mamatas, and Karen Heuler; an in-depth interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola; a journey into H.P. Lovecraft’s dreamlands; an exclusive excerpt from Stephen Hunt’s steampunk epic The Court of the Air; and lots more!
2. One-minute Weird Tales. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, they're launching a new series of embeddable micro-flash stories that unfold in 60 seconds or less!
According to a press release, the following elements have been added:
1. Downlaod a complete issue, free. For readers who've heard of Weird Tales but want a closer look before they plunk down their hard-earned cash, they're offering -- for a limited time only -- a free, full Pdf download of the July/August issue, chock full of strange sorcery, angelic gangster wars, and mecha-telepathic orphans. Featuring original fiction from Norman Spinrad, Nick Mamatas, and Karen Heuler; an in-depth interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola; a journey into H.P. Lovecraft’s dreamlands; an exclusive excerpt from Stephen Hunt’s steampunk epic The Court of the Air; and lots more!
2. One-minute Weird Tales. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, they're launching a new series of embeddable micro-flash stories that unfold in 60 seconds or less!
- 10/24/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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