January 2010 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

This is what half a foot of snow looks like

By Earl
January 30, 2010
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Snowstorm 2010

…from inside my own footprint. … Read more

Funny Stuff

Oh, sure, GREAT idea

By Earl
January 16, 2010
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There’s been an ad running on the local TV stations lately that just strikes me as perverse: an attraction in Branson is going to have – get this! – a giant ice sculpture of the Titanic!

Hey, great idea. Let’s also do a statue of JFK from spent shotgun shell casings. I could go on, but it’d only get more perverse from there. And somebody thougt this was a good idea!?… Read more

Television & Movies

I'd rather listen to a 9-CD box set of Vogon poetry Now that I’m back in the teevee trenches, I get the dubious honor of watching stuff that I would never touch off-the-clock. Well, not so much watching as… what’s the official word? Monitoring. That’s it. But all the same, how can you not watch a train wreck unfold when it’s on the scale of a little thing we call Conveyor Belt Of Love? … Read more

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That's me in red with the smooth round head.

I edit Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast and its sister shows Mission Log: Prodigy and Mission Log: The Orville for Roddenberry Podcasts. I was a frequent writer, editor, and voice on the daily Sci-Fi 5 podcast for Roddenberry, and I created and currently co-host Mission Log: Gene-ology. I handle video production on Mission Log Live, Mission Log: Prodigy and Mission Log: The Orville. I'm the technical director for the TrekTalks online telethon event benefiting Hollywood Food Coalition.

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Gene-ology 54 - Karate

Welcome to Gene-ology, where we explore the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek! Gene-ology begins its examination of Gene Roddenberry's 1960s TV writing with "Karate", a episode of The Detectives starring Robert Taylor, where our hosts find plenty to talk about, including some surprisingly heavy topics. Join us as…
Have Hot Takes, Will Travel

Does Gene's Paladin line up with Paladin in the rest of Have Gun -- Will Travel? Was Gene writing Paladin as Sam Houston? All three of Gene-ology's hosts - Ashley, Earl, and Norman C. Lao - gather to consider the story so far across Gene Roddenberry's scripts for Have Gun -- Will Travel.
Gene-ology 53 - Beyond Atlas

Welcome to Gene-ology, where we explore the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek! Gene-ology examines "Beyond Atlas", a one-off script for an unmade series might have been "West Point, but for the Air Force Academy" - except that, as written by Gene Roddenberry, it reads like a pitch for…