No problem. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

I love WAREHOUSE 13, but that’s a fair call.

Thanks for the alert about the second TEEN WOLF ep this week. That might have slipped by me!

I confess, I hear Viet Cong every time they mention the V.C.

And, yeah, that was a few decades ago, but, you know, if they called the aliens “Redcoats” I like to think most TV viewers would think the American Revolution. Or am I being too optimistic?

I’ll be honest. I’m an old fart who doesn’t have a clue about the brave new world of self-publishing. When I started out in the business, some thirty-plus years ago, the conventional wisdom was that self-publishing was the realm of vanity presses, nothing more. It wasn’t considered a serious option.

But that was before…

Revised a short story on Saturday. Got back to work on a novel Sunday.

Neither of which I can really talk about right now . ....

I don’t recognize the anime, but I remember the time a friend, in an excess of nostalgic zeal, bought the entire run of ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL on VHS.

Turned out it wasn’t as good as she remembered it . ...

We all have our nerd shames. I never finished reading THE LORD OF THE RINGS. (Gave up about a third of the way into FELLOWSHIP.)

Granted, I was always more into sword-and-sorcery than epic fantasy sagas. Give me Conan or Elric instead of Frodo . .. .

Exactly. TNG doesn’t get consistently good until “Measure of a Man,” which, to my mind, is the first truly great TNG episode.

Ahem. With all due respect to TNG, let’s not forget about The Original Series, which is truly the “foundation” upon which all of STAR TREK was built.

My work here is done. (Ursula Andress was in DR. NO, btw.) And, of course, I see I somehow managed to misspell Blackman.

I remember liking that TV-movie way back when, and even devouring hte novelization. John Huston made a great Moriarity, too.

Oh, a correction not to the actual obit, but to one of the articles quoted in it. The Bond movie Honor Black left THE AVENGERS to do was GOLDFINGER, not DR. NO as cited above.

As I recall, this was cheekily alluded to on THE AVENGERS when Steed got a postcard from Cathy Gale (Blackman’s character) and wondered what on…

Dare I admit that I have made the pilgrimage to Lyndhurst, the old estate where they filmed the first two DARK SHADOWS feature films back in the seventies—and have even attended a DS convention or two?

The thing about THE AVENGERS is that Steed and Emma always seemed to be having such a grand time together, no matter what appalling crime or menace they were investigating. Their charm and chemistry is what really made the show.

Trivia: Macnee also played Doctor Watson to Roger Moore’s Sherlock Holmes, and a werewolf…

Oh, I do. Like I said, I have fond memories of them and are not retroactively hating on them at all. But there’s stuff I loved in my younger days that I’m in no hurry to revisit because I’m not thirteen anymore. (Once in a blue moon, I confess, I’ll watch a couple of DARK SHADOWS eps for nostalgia’s sake, but will I…

Not quite the same thing, but there are also the shows and books you deliberately avoid revisiting because you loved them dearly once and don’t want to tarnish those golden memories by discovering that they haven’t aged well or that your tastes have changed over the years.

Hello, Dark Shadows, Doc Savage novels, Edgar…

Indeed. For all we know, the nameless copywriter also wrote copy for ten other toys that afternoon, including a Fisher-Price farm set, a Barbie dream house, a stuffed giraffe, and an inflatable wading pool. We can’t assume that everyone that works on every piece of packaging is a die-hard fan who knows all this stuff…

Honestly, I’m inclined to suspect sloppiness here rather than malignant intent. Yes, all true JURASSIC fans know better, but we may be over-estimating the degree to which the average advertising copywriter is well-versed in the intricacies of JURASSIC lore.

Confession: I’ve written a ton of advertising copy in my life…

Nothing personal, but just once I would love to read a comment thread on one of this lists where *somebody* didn’t protest that Such-and-Such “isn’t really science fiction!”