I was in New York City on 11 September 2001. My wife and I had stopped in to visit family on our way moving to Prague from Los Angeles. From the balcony of my family’s flat, you could see the World Trade Center in the distance. It literally towered over all of New York.
I didn’t want to let this week pass without taking note of the depature of one of our generation’s greatest funnymen, Dom Deluise. It’s ironic to work in an industry called “comic books”, when someone like Dom virtually wrote the book on comedy himself.
Wow, I just wanted to say that the Star Trek movie script review that I published this week has easily become one of the most heavily-trafficked posts in the short history of this site–literally thousands upon thousands of visitors during just a few days. It even charted in the Top-100 posts for all of Wordpress (#54, see above–click for full size), with this site itself hitting #78 on the Top Blogs of the Day.
With the world premiere of Star Trek unspooling tonight in Sydney—and no, the International Date Line does not constitute time travel—I thought I’d finally break my silence about the script, as one of the few people in the galaxy to actually read the screenplay ahead of time.
With the sudden collapse of the Czech government this week and the impending exit of Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek–currently the president of the European Union, in fact–I thought I’d repost an interview I conducted with him shortly before his ascension to the PM post.
Since I’m back to blogging, it’s time to announce that “Star Trek: The Last Generation” has been nominated for Best Series of 2008 by the legendary and longest-running SF/comics talk show, The Chronic Rift!
Expect increasingly regular updates in the immediate future, and thanks for reading. Remarkably, this site has been getting an unusual number of hits even in my absence, so good on all of you for reading.
A brief Admin interlude: I’ve updated the Press and Published Works permanent pages of the blog, to reflect recent items and new additions. Check out the pages if you haven’t yet–lots of cool and interesting stuff.
Regular posts return tomorrow; be the first on your block.
-ASH-
And how did the meeting go? Take the word “awesome”, turn it into ink, and then use it to print the word “awesome”.
Over and over again. In the “Awesome” font.
More on this later, when I can talk about it at length!
…in just the past week. I’m pretty surprised and flattered, for a blog that’s been around less than a month.
It’s probably because I named the blog “Free Porn”, though obviously now I’m thinking about changing that. (OK, just kidding–I’m not thinking about changing that.)
Anyway, thanks to everyone for reading, guys.
–ASH–
