From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, I watched Star Trek about 4 times a week. I’ve had occasion to watch it since, and it holds up. It’s a good show, and an interesting specimen of 1960s liberalism. Of course, when I see it now I also feel strong nostalgia for that period 30 years [...]
All posts tagged Star Trek
May the Great Bird of the Galaxy Bless Your Planet
Posted by acilius on March 5, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/03/05/may-the-great-bird-of-the-galaxy-bless-your-planet/
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek
It was 45 years ago last night that Star Trek was first broadcast, which means that it was 45 years ago this morning that kids first went to school and asked each other if they’d seen Star Trek. By the time I was born, Star Trek was no longer in production, but reruns of it [...]
Posted by acilius on September 9, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/09/the-information-superhighway-showed-the-average-person-what-some-nerd-thinks-about-star-trek/
Ambrose Bierce and The Man Without Illusions
Several weeks ago, The Nation ran a review-essay about Ambrose Bierce. A few days before happening on this piece, I’d my old Dover Thrift Edition collection of Bierce’s Civil War stories, a paperback I’d bought for a dollar in 1996 and had been meaning to read ever since. I was interested in the reviewer’s remarks about one of those [...]
Posted by acilius on July 23, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/07/23/ambrose-bierce-and-the-man-without-illusions/
The American Conservative, June 2010
I’m a strange sort of American, one of a handful who has reached middle age without ever having read To Kill a Mockingbird or seen the movie based on it. Evidently Bill Kauffman also avoided the novel in high school, but has since read it repeatedly and “seen the movie 20 times.” He makes a fine case [...]
Posted by acilius on April 29, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/04/29/the-american-conservative-june-2010/
Buick’s target demographic
Via our friend Duncan Mitchel‘s blog:
Posted by acilius on October 6, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/10/06/buicks-target-demographic/
Seven recent issues of The Nation
Ever since I started writing here, I’ve been referring to “Mrs Acilius.” Until last month, that was a bit of an exaggeration, as I had not actually married the lady in question. We tied the knot 12 May. So lately, I’ve had things on my mind other than this blog. That’s why I haven’t been posting “Periodicals [...]
Posted by acilius on June 18, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/18/seven-recent-issues-of-the-nation/
What is my body?
My favorite 18th century philosopher, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, defined his body as “That part of the world which I can change simply by thinking about it.” Now experiments are underway to test this insight and replace it with a body of scientific laws. Here is a paper about the results of one such experiment. Thanks to BoingBoing [...]
Posted by acilius on December 4, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/04/what-is-my-body/
Spoof of William Shatner’s Singing
Proving that nothing is so absurd as to be beyond satire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMlIsaZqT-4
Posted by acilius on September 24, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/24/spoof-of-william-shatners-singing/
-
Who writes this?
losthunderlads
vthunderlad
lefalcon
acilius
believer1
