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Showing posts with label Star Trek. Show all posts
31 July 2022

Hailing Frequencies Closed -- Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022)

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Damn it.  When I was a little boy, Uhura always struck me as so calm, so perfectly poised, and so completely on top of everything she had to...
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11 September 2017

The evolution of a commonplace

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I discovered Tolkien when I was eleven and, as you've probably gathered, I rather liked his work. From then until I went to college sev...
05 June 2017

Wonder Invoked -- On the Uses of Enchantment

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Trying to find my room on day one of Mythmoot The theme of the most recent Mythmoot --  held just this past weekend in the Khaza...
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08 May 2016

Thanks, Ma -- Reflections on how cool my mother was

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I saw this image over on Facebook this morning, Mothers' Day, and it reminded me that my mother took me and four of my eleven or twel...
04 March 2015

Me, Spock, and Beowulf, All on the Ferry.

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In Beowulf, when the hero enters Heorot, the mead hall of King Hrothgar, he is greeted by the king and invited to join them at their feast....
22 June 2014

It's just the wind, right?

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It's just the wind, right?  Or maybe not. Perhaps it's because I was a little boy in the late 1960s.  There was so much goi...
19 June 2014

The Mythgard Institute

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In the winter of 2012 I was poking around the internet, looking as we all do for god knows what  -- our futures perhaps -- when I came acros...