Science Fiction Movie Poster: Moonraker

Moonraker Mini Poster Buy at AllPosters.com I have a soft spot for James Bond in general, but Moonraker in particular — it may be far and away the silliest Bond movie ever made, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t highly entertaining. This poster is particularly amusing, depicting Bond and all of his womens, hovering in [...]

Science Fiction Movie Poster: The Day The Earth Stood Still

The Day The Earth Stood Still Buy at AllPosters.com As a new series, I’ll be featuring classic science fiction movie posters. These are amusing and great on a wall, fantastic pulp art and truly great movies. Enjoy!

Galaxy Light Whiskey

Following regulation changes in 1968, 1972 saw an eruption of light whiskey in the United States. Seagram’s Galaxy was by far the most celestial release, with slogans like “Look for Galaxy… it’s out there” and “Taste the mellow glow of time in Galaxy Whiskey”, along with appropriate galactic artwork and potentially-spacefaring, contemplative adults. It’s hard [...]

Societal Impact of Spaceflight

Of all the conferences I’ve missed, the Societal Impact of Spaceflight Conference, held just last week in Washington DC, takes the cake for maximum regrets. The abstracts are online, and I’m investigating the proceedings (hopefully they will come out in PDF-on-CD format, as many other NASA conferences have done in the past.) The conference is [...]

I want my MTV.

Image courtesy of and © MTV: Music Television, all rights reserved. Watch the footage in Quicktime format. (Borrowed from here.) If you’ve never seen the above iconic representations of MTV, congratulations, you’re the last on your block. Few MTV logo spots are remotely as memorable (the girl brandishing a chainsaw, cutting the front off a [...]