I never really lived in New York, but my mother’s side of the family gave me a hint of a New York accent. And, holy shit, does it ramp up to full blown native when I’m visiting there.
Mark 2000 Farinas
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Bay Area artist and animator. Comics, sketches, and articles about Star Trek and Sci-Fi. Co-Host of Ship Full of Jerks podcast.
Patrick Stewart became a total sex symbol and style icon during TNG’s run. So much so that my local station in Miami made this ad showing people shaving their heads to look like him.
"I'm Shaving My Head!" | Our funny TV ad for Star Trek: The Next Generation with Jean-Luc Picard
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This chubby monkey is the first camera I got just for its looks. I love its barrel shape and the TV screen looking viewfinder. The 1955 Minolta A was the company’s first attempt at an original design that wasn’t just a Leica IIIf copy. I also picked up the macro/portrait attachment.
For me, Encounter at Farpoint's opening line is the most exciting, promise filled start of any television show, let alone Star Trek. And only Patrick Stewart could have said it with this much gravitas, wonder, and humanity.
I also remember a lot of immediate backlash to the prequels. So much so that it affected Lucas and how he wrote each consecutive one — minimizing Jar Jar and going darker and darker until we got child murder.
Zaki Hasan@zakiscorner.bsky.social · last wk.This is objectively, verifiably untrue.
⏳Melodramatic Podcast Alert!⏳ We're doing a tight zoom in on Captain Christopher Pike this week as we review his emotional torture in "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass". Then we team up with @antimatterpod.bsky.social to torture him ourselves! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Just finished recording an amazing segment with Liz and Anika from @antimatterpod.bsky.social that will air next week. We‘ll be talking all things Christopher Pike! It’s going to be a hell of a show!
I got my Canonet QL17 G-III (that's a mouth full!) because it was my father-in-law's camera when my wife was growing up. She recognized it from the candy stripe film transport indicator on the back. I decked it out in some green leather. #FilmCameraFriday
The original Roosevelt term is “the arsenal of democracy”, right? So does Hegseth know he’s quoting a TNG title? And does he know that arsenal eventual destroyed the people who built it?
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 2w agoSTOP STEALING MY BOOK'S NAME YOU FASCIST BASTARDS
The Last Outpost is basically Arena rewritten to match Gene’s new style of humanism. The Enterprise chases an unknown and powerful alien ship only to be halted by an unknown intelligence. They then have to fight their opponents hand-to-hand on a planet’s surface.
TrekMovie.com@trekmovie.bsky.social · 2w agoOTD, the Ferengi were introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Genreation episode "The Last Outpost." Armin Shimerman played a Ferengi in this episode (though not in this photo) and said they were directed to "jump up and down like crazed gerbils."
The iPhone Duo: a dull, matte screen that feels like cheap, flexible plastic, but cracks like glass. And all for more than the cost of a full computer. Also, if you want to put a case on it you have to glue it on. Some how enshittification is funniest when it hits luxury goods.
Nina Simone’s 1960 version of Love Me or Leave Me in which she fuses classical and baroque piano inappropriately and fantastically over a jazz beat. It may actually be my favorite song period.
Nina Simone "Love Me Or Leave Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3w agoName your fav Song from the 60s.
My Yashica Mat-124 is the so-called "budget Rolleiflex". Twin reflex cameras are magical. They look really cool and you look cool using them. The top lens is for composing and focusing and moves in tandem with the lower taking lens. The ground glass viewfinder looks like a screen. #FilmCameraFriday
🟢Green Pod Alert!🟢 The Jerks are speeding through the warp threshold as we examine #StrangeNewWorlds' Off-Hour. Then we charge up our rings to take on the DC Studios show #Lanterns. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The more I look at the Athena the more I realize how similar it is to some of Jefferies early Enterprise concepts.
TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com · 4w agoHere's your first look at Fanhome's USS ATHENA model from #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy, coming at the end of the year
My #SNW season four ranks so far as we’re reviewing them on @shipfullofjerks.bsky.social 1. A Case of Chiaroscuro 2. Human Best Friend 3. Valles Marineris 4. The Griffin Incident 5. Level Five Transporter Accident
Ross Webster@tehborg.bsky.social · 4w ago#SNW Season Four Ranks: 1. Tomorrow’s Enterprise 2. Off-Hour 3. Orders of Magnitude 4. Valles Marineris 5. The Griffin Incident 6. A Case of Chiaroscuro 7. Like Cronitons Through the Hourglass 8. Level-Five Transporter Accident 9. Once La’An a Time 10. Human Best Friend Loved the genre hop!
Polaroid had just filed for bankruptcy, so I got my SX-70 for relatively cheap. This was the first Polaroid camera to use integral film and it's still the best. It's an SLR with glass lens that folds up to the size of a cigarette case. #FilmCameraFriday
💥New Pod Alert💥 It's time to get things started on #StrangeNewWorlds tonight, with Level Five Transporter Accident. We discuss that episode as well as comedy in Trek. Then, you've seen @NYTimes top 100 shows of the 21st C. Now hear the Jerk's top tens! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Remember, as you make you quippy “Kirk was a jock, Picard was a nerd” posts…
One thing I forgot to mention when we reviewed Mando and Grogu was how irked I was that they were using playing cards for wanted Imperials like Bush Jr. did in Iraq 2. I think comparing the New Republic's Nazi hunt to an illegal, botched invasion is bad form.
