FYI: I was just at our local Hallmark store and a clerk there said the “Mantrap” ornament was selling fast, as was the new “Chekov” ornament.

I am sorely tempted.

And, yes, the “Spock Mind-Melds with Horta” ornament is sitting on my bookshelf a few feet away as I type this ....

Thanks. Even with deadline crunches and rewrites, I’m very aware that I’m very lucky to get to write this stuff for a living. And my inner fanboy still gets excited about getting to write Godzilla or Wonder Woman or Spock or whomever . ...

As for B. Dalton’s . . . back in the day, it and J.K. Gill were about the only…

I had a letter published in the STAR WARS comic book back in my letterhack days. (Actually, I had two letters published in that issue, but one was under a pseudonym.)

Thanks for the kind words about MAN OF STEEL, btw. I like writing novelizations, despite the inevitable tight deadlines and last-minute revisions. My inner fanboy still gets excited about the prospect of novelizing a Major Motion Picture!

And I still remember how excited I was the first time I stumbled onto SPLINTER at…

Those Marvel comics were absolutely my first exposure to STAR WARS, although I remember seeing the paperback floating around on spin racks before the movie came out.

To be fair, he does turn out to be a fake Andorian . . . .

The Bride of Frankenstein: Return of the Bride.

I mean, if the Monster survived that explosion at the end of the original 1935 movie, why not the Bride? And she was too cool-looking a character to be confined to the last five minutes of the movie.

Hell, give Dr. Pretorious his own movie, too.

You win. Or should that be:

“YOU WIN!!!”

And in red, white, and blue type no less!

Oh, I know it was adapted from the earlier song, but the CLEOPATRA 2525 version is great, campy fun.

Going back a ways, I still love the theme song to DOC SAVAGE, MAN OF BRONZE and listen to it regularly, although that’s probably faded into obscurity by now.

“Peace will come to all who find . . . Doc Savage! Doc…

“Secret Agent Man,” “Shaft,” any number of Bond songs.

Heck, most people don’t even known that Michael Jackson’s “Ben” is the theme song to a drive-in horror movie about a man-eating, super-intelligent rat. :)

The last great theme song? The one from CLEOPATRA 2525, of course.

“In the year twenty-five twenty-five, there are women with the will to survive . . . ..”

Make it so . . . please.

Speaking from the East Coast, it’s not a thing here—and tends to get blank looks if mentioned.

But if there’s an excuse to send your crime-fighting zombie heroine undercover as a bikini barista in time for sweeps . . . .

Speaking as an expatriate Seattleite, “iZOMBIE” seems to get the place names rights and hasn’t committed any really big howlers yet. Pike Place Market and other locales get name-checked occasionally and so on. “We found another body over in Queen Anne.” that kind of thing. They even occasionally allude to the fact…

I’ve been using “nuTrek,” which I never saw as have any negative connotations, but I’m sure “Kelvin” will work once we get used to it.

Can you think of another example? I was semi-stumped when asked to cite some instances, which made me wonder if maybe this was something Hollywood USED to do back in 70s and 80s, which is when I first noticed it, but perhaps not so much anymore?

I think “iZombie” does a decent job at faking Seattle. I was impressed that they had Liv correctly refer to the University of Washington as “U-Dub” and the occasional digs at Tacoma reflect the standard Seattle attitude, at least as I recall it. (I moved East back in the eighties.)

The acid test: will Liv be able to…