My dad used to tell me that he’d check the newspaper every morning to see if his name was in it, and as long as it didn’t show up in the police reports or the obits, he was okay. Just for giggles, I thought I’d build a list of links here – more for the amusement of myself and my family than anything – of when I’ve gotten a mention in the papers. This page isn’t added to very often (what’s wrong with you, print journalists?), but it’s fun to have around (at least until someone adds my obit to it) and saves bit of future Googling.
From the Las Vegas Sun (January 2, 1998): “Boldly going and going and going…”
Web site contributor, Earl Green, argues that DS9 is the series that defines “Star Trek.”
A promotional producer at WACY-TV in Green Bay, Wis., Green said watching Capt. Sisko go from anger to bitterness to despair to hope after his wife is killed in the pilot episode of “Deep Space Nine” exemplifies how life is lived in the “Star Trek” universe. It shows that humanity is still going to be in for some personal trauma despite technological advances that will make life easier.
- Original link: here.
- Context: this was an article on fan reactions to the grand opening of Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton, a place I wouldn’t get to visit for myself until 2003. At the time, I believe Mark Holtz (also quoted in the article) was still hosting theLogBook at his own site, Deep Space Franchise, so hitting his site provided the reporter with two handy, and different, quotes. Deep Space Franchise: your one-stop shop for “Trexpert” witnesses.
From the Baltimore Sun (January 24, 2002): “Pedal To The Metal”
Pole Position was a smash arcade hit. “Every 16-year-old kid wanted to get in there and play it,” said Earl E. Green, a writer for Classic Gamer magazine. “You could find yourself waiting about a half-hour or so.”
“We may look back at it now and laugh; but at the time, it raised the bar on reality.”
- Original link: here; my tiny quote is on page 2.
- Context: I was writing for Classic Gamer Magazine, and by this point had done a brief stint of freelancing for All Game Guide that had yielded a pretty epic number of reviews that filled out their coverage of older-than-NES titles. (I really miss the All Game Guide gig, mainly because it was pretty good money for what it was.) Between those credits and Phosphor Dot Fossils, I guess I’m an expert witness on video games too – except that I didn’t really have a horse in the race on the new/current games the reporter was asking about, so I opted for giving historical context instead. Which is probably why I have one tiny quote in there. 😆
From the Arkansas Business Journal (March 14, 2005)…
The brochure contained a description of the game Galaga:
“Commanding a small fleet of sleek fighter ships, you’re up against an alien invasion, arriving in wave after unfriendly wave. Alien fighters resemble butterflies and bees, but the real prize is the handful of mother ships, which arrive with each wave.”
That was the word-for-word description Green had posted on his Web site in 2000.
- Original link: here; Arkansas Business evidently syndicated their original article out to Entrepreneur.com.
- Context: I don’t talk about this a whole lot… mainly because that’s part of the agreement that was reached in early ’06. But this was already on the public record before that agreement, so if you really want to know, read away.
