This is a blog to show off my wargaming toys, projects, and to discuss anything that I have a whim for at that time.
I am currently going back and making my print format larger and trying to make the pictures bigger to make it easier on the eyes. But you can always click on the pictures to see a larger image of it.
Enjoy!
I have always loved the Atomic era monster movies (1950's-60's). It could be cheesy or not, I loved them the same. While searching YouTube (when I should be working on my basement), I found that a whole bunch of old movies are available on there. I believe that most of these are now free by public domain as their copyrights expired. If I am wrong, let me know. Anyways, because of the sizes of the video clip, I can't upload the movies to my blog, so I am leaving the link and a clip to a trailer for the movies. First up is 'The Giant Claw'. This is a 1957 classic! See the full movie here.
Here are the promised pictures from this year's Archon convention in St. Louis, as I talked about in my last post.
The pictures are from the Friday's night Q&A panel: In the first two pictures, the panelists are: Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, J. Elvis Weinstein, and Mary Jo Pehl.
On the weekend of Oct. 3-5, I went to the Archon Sci-Fi & Fantasy Convention in Collinsville, IL, just outside of St. Louis, MO. This was the first time that I have been to Archon since 1997...that has been a long time! (But that was the first time back since 1993...I missed the old 'Henry the VIII', the previous convention location.)
Anyway, I decided to go for various reasons...1) I was actually in town that weekend!!! (that really is amazing!), and 2) the cast of 'Cinematic Titanic' or the old cast of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 [MST3K] for their 20th Anniversary of the launching of MST3K. I am a fan of MST3K and have been from the days that used to be on the Comedy Channel in 1991.
So...I went!
I went on Friday and Saturday only. I did not have the time for Sunday's events.
I enjoyed myself for the most part. I ran into several of some my friends and some people I have not seen in probably 10 years...it was like a family reunion...but with weird vampire freaks walking around you! [Ok, I might be too hard on the vampire freaks...but back the days of 'Henry the VIII' and the early years of the Collinsville Convention Center, I was 'volunteered under duress' to be on security...especially on the early, early morning shifts when the vampire freaks were in rare form...]
Wait, let me get back to this years convention and bury this wooden stake! 8)
So, I did take a few pictures of the MST3K panel on Friday night, but forgot my camera on Saturday...and oddly, I forgot to take the camera's disc with me when I left for Utah where I am working! I will add the pictures later, if they turned out ok.
Saturday I sat in a 3 hour panel on podcasting...hmmm...nah, I can't have that much to talk about...or do I? Don't hold your breath.
I also got into to one game, which is typical for me at conventions...I don't know why? It was a 'Call of Cthulhu - Dark Ages' game. I enjoyed it...I have not played CoC in eons...at least I died before going insane in the game, so I won!!!
But on another note...I am going to have a treat on midnight, 10/17-18th! I am going to see one my all time favorite movies...2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen!!!! I am so happy!
