tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post7357862965926586303..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: It's Hard Out There for a PimpScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-53321505539991364592012-11-05T10:40:45.815-08:002012-11-05T10:40:45.815-08:00I thought that was Joel Grey in the makeupI thought that was Joel Grey in the makeuptrashfirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-29329975306887313642012-11-05T09:55:36.223-08:002012-11-05T09:55:36.223-08:00Stacia writes: whenever I'd see him in somethi...Stacia writes: <i>whenever I'd see him in something post-Benson I'd inevitably say, "Hey, that's Rene Auberjonois!"</i><br /><br />Same here, I think in my case also because it's just so much to roll out that name in my rusty High School French Class accent.<br /><br />(French Master told my parents, "Six months in Paris and he'll be speaking like a native!" which caused them and me no end of amusement because nobody, but nobody, in our family could afford to go to friggin' Paree, let alone hang out for six months there.)Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-7117845794634283622012-11-05T07:29:55.920-08:002012-11-05T07:29:55.920-08:00Suezboo, it appears we need to work out a sharing ...Suezboo, it appears we need to work out a sharing schedule for Austin. Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-22740776423201555852012-11-05T06:53:59.537-08:002012-11-05T06:53:59.537-08:00Stacia, I get that Look too when I squeal "Oo...Stacia, I get that Look too when I squeal "Oooh, look, Austin Pendleton" who is my alltime fave character actor.I'm just a sucker for nerds.I may crush on Nathan Fillion but my heart belongs to Austin.<br />SuezbooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-10440058822711427092012-11-05T04:44:35.495-08:002012-11-05T04:44:35.495-08:00Rene Auberjonois was the first lesser-known charac...Rene Auberjonois was the first lesser-known character actor name I knew, plus I love him in anything, so whenever I'd see him in something post-Benson I'd inevitably say, "Hey, that's Rene Auberjonois!" Thus learning that 99.44% of people will look at you funny if you say things like, "Hey, that's Rene Auberjonois!"<br /><br />I'd check out KISS Meets Phantom of the Oh Whatever Nobody Cares Anymore, except I've seen that movie three times in the last year, and my soul cannot handle a fourth.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-9431395999128909402012-11-05T02:37:25.046-08:002012-11-05T02:37:25.046-08:00Scott, I'd been meaning to mention a film to y...Scott, I'd been meaning to mention a film to you that might deserve your tender mercies...*snarfle*...<br /><br />"Descendents". Not the Clooney movie. "Desecedents" is a vanity production from Peru about a gang of third graders surviving a zombie apocalypse that takes place mostly in the memory of a little girl who has her mom eating her brain from the inside out. Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-17095320614689541882012-11-04T19:11:27.029-08:002012-11-04T19:11:27.029-08:00I totally feel your pain. It's hard to be an I...I totally feel your pain. It's hard to be an Internet hobo.<br /><br />Especially one who's a social media techno-idiot.<br /><br />Or maybe just an idiot. :)Debbihttp://mackthewriter.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/im-just-an-internet-hobo/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-3735765583713434632012-11-04T18:08:17.073-08:002012-11-04T18:08:17.073-08:00Wow, I'd completely forgotten Auberjonois play...Wow, I'd completely forgotten Auberjonois played the chaplain in <i>M*A*S*H</i>. That's almost certainly the first place I ever saw him.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-57180917537504390202012-11-04T17:26:33.451-08:002012-11-04T17:26:33.451-08:00For more fun, see his performance in "Brewste...<i>For more fun, see his performance in "Brewster McCloud."</i><br /><br />And of course, he has that classic dialogue exchange with Sally Kellerman in <b>MASH</b> (1970):<br /><br />"Hot Lips": I wonder how such a degenerated person ever reached a position of authority in the Army Medical Corps.<br />Father Mulcahy: He was drafted. Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-36701438159660682552012-11-04T16:24:33.651-08:002012-11-04T16:24:33.651-08:00Never have two reaction shots in a row without dia...<i>Never have two reaction shots in a row without dialog</i><br /><br />Not sure whose comment that was, but<br />why did no one explain this to Spielberg, the worst offender?<br /><br />Also, a shout out for Rene Auberjonois-- he's one of my favorites, and his performance as Odo, the shapeshifter "constable" of Deep Spsce Nine was nailed well and true, and brightened every scene he graced.<br /><br />For more fun, see his performance in "Brewster McCloud."Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-65623614396435374352012-11-04T13:06:53.899-08:002012-11-04T13:06:53.899-08:00Thanks for the glimpse of Southern Hemispherical S...Thanks for the glimpse of Southern Hemispherical Shat, Suezboo. <br /><br />Mormally I'm all in favor of actors selling themselves to embarrassing masters (those wacky Japanese commercials American movie stars used to think they could get away with before YouTube remain a constant source of delight), but indentured servitude to a local gang of con men selling cut rate insurance from the Cape of Good Hope is particularly hilarious.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75256981790388973152012-11-04T12:36:36.566-08:002012-11-04T12:36:36.566-08:00when the kids start zipping past your rattletrap o...<i>when the kids start zipping past your rattletrap old blog with their sporty Twitters</i><br /><br />And this wouldn't be so bad...but they're <i>texting</i> at the same time!<br /><br />Thanks so muchly for the blogiversary shout-out, Scott, Mary and S.Z. I always try to give you guys proper credit when the origin story comes up, because I believe that there's plenty of torches-and-pitchforks to go around.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15617836650516630702012-11-04T11:16:17.775-08:002012-11-04T11:16:17.775-08:00Thanks for listening, Chris. And I think we all h...Thanks for listening, Chris. And I think we all had a crush on Gillian by the time the conversation was over. My friend P.J. was particularly charmed by the funny way she'd warble "NOooOOoo!" whenever Ike would say, "Okay, can we agree <i>this</i> particular episode was the worst thing ever put on TV in the Nineteen Sixties?"<br /><br />Jim, sorry, I stupidly forgot to mention the title of the film you wrote about (it was late). I've made the correction, and added the dead tree details to the post.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-40131876451461808702012-11-04T10:06:15.881-08:002012-11-04T10:06:15.881-08:00Well that was fun, and I think I may have a crush ...Well that was fun, and I think I may have a crush on Jillian.<br /><br />Well done Scott, and the hillbilly feller who did most of the talking.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-2169436914165555772012-11-04T10:04:11.710-08:002012-11-04T10:04:11.710-08:00re the JJ Abrams Star Trek: aren't any of you ...re the JJ Abrams Star Trek: aren't any of you going to point out the gaping unlikelihood of the meetup with an aging Spock-- in a cave-- on an uninhabited planet?<br /><br />Nope, guess not.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-26744882926611854082012-11-04T09:58:02.827-08:002012-11-04T09:58:02.827-08:00Re the first Star Trek movie: in the commentary tr...Re the first Star Trek movie: in the commentary track for The Day the Earth Stood Still DVD, Robert Wise repudiated the Star Trek flick, but pinned it on extensive reworking of the movie while he was trying to film it, making it impossible to make it anything remotely entertaining.<br /><br />I take him at his word on this.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-11331987662290888342012-11-04T09:49:31.641-08:002012-11-04T09:49:31.641-08:00Nice comment by Jillian on Roddenberry's simil...Nice comment by Jillian on Roddenberry's similarity to Paul McCartney (dried up idea-wise but kept going).<br /><br />"Does anyone have anything to say about Star Trek: Enterprise?"<br /><br />[crickets]<br /><br />Yep [laughing], pretty much.<br /><br />Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-34708957070746592632012-11-04T09:42:13.239-08:002012-11-04T09:42:13.239-08:00Great Odo comments about how good a shapeshifter c...Great Odo comments about how good a shapeshifter can he be if he can't do a decent pair of ears.<br /><br />Best Odo moment: Jake Sisko and his nasty little Ferengi pal steal Odo's bucket. Which he sleeps in. <br /><br />Priceless.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-19970825848960326412012-11-04T09:32:15.385-08:002012-11-04T09:32:15.385-08:00Awesome sendup of the Dr McCoy character as a anac...Awesome sendup of the Dr McCoy character as a anachronistic throwback to the pre-civil-rights southern era, complete with racist smears of poor green blooded pointy eared Spock, Scott.<br /><br />One of my favorite imagined lines is Kirk to McCoy in a jovial mood: "Hey, Bones, whaddya say let's go up to the bridge and pull Spock's chain for a while?"<br /><br />Another favorite imagined line is Kirk to McCoy: "Meet me in the transporter room, Bones, and bring condoms-- LOTS OF CONDOMS!"<br /><br />Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-44718645473814412062012-11-04T09:21:45.570-08:002012-11-04T09:21:45.570-08:00Another Flash Gordon observation:
My favorite sce...Another Flash Gordon observation:<br /><br />My favorite scene was of a Ming lackey answering the video phone, "Ming's Palace", in a tone exactly the same as that used by a guy at a chinese restaurant expecting to write up a takeout order.<br /><br />Good line about "Dr Crusher" sounding like a WWF character, Scott!Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-57200983439932631762012-11-04T09:12:56.208-08:002012-11-04T09:12:56.208-08:00Okay, it's gonna be random comments (livecomme...Okay, it's gonna be random comments (livecommenting!) on the ASSJam from here on.<br /><br />What always killed me about Flash Gordon was the fact that after introducing himself to various aliens as "Flash Gordon", they all of them never call him anything but "Earthman" from that point forward.<br /><br />Star Trek TOS is hilariously dumb fun, and there's really no way to mitigate the fact that "the future" was framed through a very sixties lens, which TNG had some fun with when they dressed up some crew members in those go-go-booted minidresses for a time travel ep.<br /><br />TNG "Best of Both Worlds" cliffhanger, yep, they're quite right-- it was a lulu, and the Borg itself was a truly memorable creation.<br /><br />Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-51324693663806463692012-11-04T08:55:29.903-08:002012-11-04T08:55:29.903-08:00Re the Mike and Ike (and Scott!) Star Trek comment...Re the Mike and Ike (and Scott!) Star Trek commentary, a thread at Roy Edroso's Alicublog about the conservative tendency to plunder and parse American culture for conservative messages finally wound up parsing TOS for top ten conservative message episodes, and a commenter named Hob delivered the best list, which comment I reproduce here:<br /><br /><i>"The City on the Edge of Forever": To save the future, a 20th-century pacifist social worker must die.<br /><br />"Bread and Circuses": The Roman Empire is replaced by pure love and universal brotherhood as soon as Christianity is invented.<br /><br />"Is There In Truth No Beauty?": Foreign diplomats are so horrifying you will lose your mind if you look at them.<br /><br />"Elaan of Troyius": Women can control your mind if you let them cry on you.<br /><br />"The Way to Eden": Well-meaning but silly hippies follow their crazy leader to a planet made out of poison.<br /><br />"Spock's Brain": A man can live without a brain.</i><br /><br />Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15139413337095170472012-11-04T05:07:50.889-08:002012-11-04T05:07:50.889-08:00Scott--Many thanks for the pimpage on my "Aft...Scott--Many thanks for the pimpage on my "After Last Season" piece. <br /><br />May I add for those old-school folks out there that Cashiers du Cinemart #17 (edited by Mike White of the Projection Booth podcast) is also available in a dead tree edition. I got mine yesterday, and I have to say ... man, print is cool, isn't it? It just has something that e-books don't. <br /><br />The print edition--which has illustrations not in the Kindle edition, I believe--is $8 (plus shipping) as opposed to the Kindle $5. It's perfect bound and looks great. For anyone who remembers the 'zine movement, this may be better way to go. <br /><br />It's available here: <br /><br />http://www.lulu.com/shop/mike-white/cashiers-du-cinemart-17/paperback/product-20480366.html<br /><br />And may I add in closing: There are, um, printers in the basement you can use.Jim Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140325442403671800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-41350672330647984592012-11-04T01:37:51.543-08:002012-11-04T01:37:51.543-08:00Oh, Oh, I wanted to tell you something.
Shatner ha...Oh, Oh, I wanted to tell you something.<br />Shatner has gone lower than mere Priceline commercials.<br />There are now on SA TV commercials for a local lo-cost! insurance company called Dial Direct where he speaks from a desk accompanied by a little potbellied pig.They are obviously totes cheaply produced and really, really bad. But it's him all right.<br />Suezboo Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com