May 2012 – Page 5 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

The secret of classic video game enemies

By Earl
May 3, 2012
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Once you see this, it cannot be unseen. … Read more

Critters

The ballad of Sancho Diablo

By Earl
May 2, 2012
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NAME? I am Sancho.
JOB? I am a hellcat.
JOIN? I would love to join thee!

This story is only tangentially TV-station related, I promise.

Catzilla One of my fellow board ops at the Fox station was a rather striking redhead who announced, out of the blue, that she was running off to get married. I was disappointed, but for once, not primarily because she was giving us virtually no notice and leaving me stuck with a double shift. I was about to lose my evening shift eye candy. To be fair, we were pretty good friends, but as with so many pretty good female friends, I just never worked up the nerve to go any further than that. I was living on my own and in desperate need of friends; I was paranoid about trying to push beyond that and losing the friendship in the process. I never felt like I had enough to offer to making being “more than friends” worthwhile.

But she did have a parting gift to give me. … Read more

Critters

Cats ‘n’ crates

By Earl
May 1, 2012
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Portia in a crate

Tomorrow I’ll tell you all about a cat who lived with me, who I think of every time I end up being adopted by a silly cat like Portia who likes to destroy things for fun.… Read more

Funny Stuff Toiling In The Pixel Mines

Mixed Signals III: tonight’s gguuhhhhh will be… derp…

By Earl
May 1, 2012
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So where were we? Oh yeah – seeing off our former TV weather guy with a bang. He was leaving us anyway, so we gave him a memorable sendoff that no one watching at home would ever have known about.

Now the race was on to replace him. Our typically spendthrift manager and owner had a super spiffy idea: let’s not hire anyone new. Let’s just use the people who are already working here and not pay them any extra for suddenly being on-air talent.

That included me. … Read more

I'm just your typical compulsively-writing, sci-fi-and-science-obsessed, classic-video-game-playing, action-figure-collecting dad.

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.

I also run theLogBook.com/theLogBook.media and host podcasts here, including Retrogram, Select Game and Don't Give This Tape To Earl. I've written several books (WARP!1, VWORP!1, VWORP!2, and "Fatherhood, Fandom And Fading Out), and produced the Phosphor Dot Fossils video game documentaries. On YouTube, I still occasionally produce and host the ongoing Phosphor Dot Fossils and Voyages Of Shelf Discovery series. Follow me on Twitter @LogBookGuy, like theLogBook.com on Facebook, or contact me here.

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…
Gene-ology 52 - The Rescue of the Strangers

Welcome to Gene-ology, where we explore the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek! The fourth and final episode Gene Roddenberry wrote for Boots & Saddles is a challenging piece of work; the story pitch that got him hired to write the episode is even more challenging and perhaps a…
Gene-ology Mailbag #2

Gene-ology has been covering Gene Roddenberry's early TV writing for a year now, so it's an opportune time for Ashley and Earl to take a well-deserved break from the wild west and dig into your comments and questions on past episodes of the podcast.