Archive for the ‘From the web’ Category
Frakes & Spiner interview actors & writers
Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner, known for their roles on TNG and Picard, have joined forces to interview people. They know lots of people, of course, and they’re both very funny. The channel is called Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny. The “Dropping Names” part means part of their show is that people are supposed […]
Elise Eckland’s funny songs & sketches
Elise Eckland has a deadpan delivery and is very funny. She’s also musically talented and plays ukulele and guitar — she will even teach you things if you want to learn. You can also follow along as she changes her hair colour, tries different kinds of ukuleles, gets married, and has a baby. She’s written […]
Eclectic board game lists
I always look at Board Game Geek for board game stuff — typically when I want to buy a new game. There’s a lot of stuff on their site from forums to reviews of games to videos that explain how to play games. Here are a few pages I’ve been known to visit. This is […]
Eclectic music lists
DigitalDreamDoor is the place I go when I want to fill in some gaps in my musical knowledge. It has a lot of lists like songs by year, by genre, and even 100 songs by artist for a few big names (and also books and movies). Here are a few I found interesting. Bach’s “Mass […]
Eclectic lists of SF & F TV shows
I previously pointed to some lists of SF & F movies. Now it’s time for TV shows. From Entertainment Weekly, they put The Twilight Zone at the top: The 30 best sci-fi shows of all time, ranked From Peter Sykes on Sci-Fi Lists, he put Battlestar Galactica 2003 at the top: Top 100 Sci-Fi TV […]
Beautiful and astonishing 10-year-old singer
I know Jessie J from a couple of her songs, but I’m not a huge fan or anything. I came across this video and I didn’t even know this song, but the video is absolutely stunning. She picks a 10-year-old girl out of the crowd in Romania — and the girl confidently sings the whole […]
A moral backlash
Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t actually use that phrase in this interview but I love it. He explains that he believes a backlash against what 47 is doing will be swift. This is Malcolm Gladwell and Neal Brennan having a little chat: Malcolm Gladwell on Trump: A Moral Backlash is Coming
Beautiful credits
There are some credits that are a stunning melding of visuals and music. Here are two of them that are so stunning that other people have created their own versions by inserting actors from other shows. Dallas Opening Credits Here’s the original: Dallas Opening and Closing Theme 1978 – 1991 (HD Surround) Here’s TNG: Star […]
Watching Star Trek with the actors
Here are 2 YouTube channels in which Star Trek actors watch or rewatch episodes of the shows. The 7th Rule Cirroc Loften (Jake) and Ryan T. Husk started out by reviewing Deep Space Nine episodes. They’ve branched out to TNG and 3rd generation shows. They also interview various actors and behind-the-scenes people. Aron Eisenberg (Nog) […]
Anna Akana’s funny & serious videos
I came across Anna Akana when she was in a video with Julie Nolke. It’s this one, where Julie is playing Zeus and Anna is playing Pandora. It’s a funny video: Pandora’s Box Opened in 2020 (ft. Anna Akana) Anna has a bunch of videos too. She has some funny ones, like this one about […]