The Crotchety Old Fan

TV reviews. Flash Forward and Stargate: Universe.
Let me begin by reviewing my reviewing status. Anything that airs after 8 PM EST is on “past my bedtime”. We’re up at 3 AM here in Casa El Davidson Norte. I watch while lying down and, if I’m lucky, I’m in the process of falling asleep – winding [...]

Today I box the books for shipment to the distributor tomorrow.? 1536 copies.? Three each to a small box. 16 small boxes (for a total of 48 books) into a big box.
A total of 32 large boxes will ultimately be shipped in various numbers to five different warehouses across the country.
The remaining books will be [...]

I’ve moved a lot of the content over to the wordpress version of the channel.
The movies (feature films) section is fairly well complete at this point.? Just about all of the rest of the sections need to have posts, pictures and links set up.
I’m using the NextGen gallery program to display the images and am [...]

Otherwise, how else explain the wealth of really cool articles that Mike links to or highlights…?
Indeed, one hardly need go anywhere else on this fine (80+ degree NH spring day) – except perhaps to do the laundry, which task I will be undertaking in just a few short minutes.
AFTER reading just about everything Mike linked [...]

The activity that has been tying up my time lately is transferring all of the Classic Science Fiction Channel’s content onto a new site;? I’m setting it up as another ‘blog’ (really just using the wordpress CMS to run it) and there is an awful lot of stuff to reformat, layout and etc.
In the meantime, [...]

I’m working towards actually hosting videos directly on the site.? I’m also making the following announcement:
If you are an indy film producer – shorts, longs, serious, funny, live or animated – I’d be happy to host a full-blown presentation of your creation – or video clips if you’d prefer to go that way.?? Just email [...]

What a milestone!? 125 feature films (loosely speaking) – from 1919 through the 80’s.
The addition that put the channel up to a nice round 125 is The Andromeda Strain (the 1971 version) recently remade as an awful television mini-series.

First – the DrinkTank fanzine publishes its annual Hugo Awards Handicapping issue (a great read btw) and includes a wonderful piece from Cheryl Morgan that injects a bit of British electioneering into the mix.? You can read them both here.
DrinkTank gives Glyer the win for File 770 (that’s great) but he still needs the votes, [...]

Over on that mailing list thingie where uber fen decide the fate of the world? with a single sentence, folks who have volunteered to work at Anticipation (the up-coming World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal – the event where they award the Hugo Awards) are a bit up in arms over what some consider a [...]

If I were eligible to vote (or become eligible to vote) for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards(R) this year, I’m not sure who/what I’d vote for in the various fiction categories, but I do know two votes I’d be casting:
Cheryl Morgan for fan writer and File 770 for Fanzine.
Since I am not yet [...]