Decker Lives!

We actually shot William Windom’s scenes for the New Voyages episode “In Harm’s way in our living room.

I loved the whole idea that Decker never died in the Doomsday Machine incident, and that he ended up alive, happy, and living with Captain’s woman BarBara Luna. When Dorothy was a kid, she had a crushed on Windom from watching him in a television show called “The Farmer’s Daughter”. When Bill arrived in his well worn jeep at our house in North Hollywood, I snitched, telling him my wife had a crush on him from the 60’s. He replied, “WELL, we’ll fix THAT!” Everyone agrees that William Windom stole the show in “The Doomsday Machine”, and Windom knows it, too…. “That was MY show” he chortles with devilish satisfaction.

We also had a huge ginormous amount of fun with all-time great Malachi Throne. The man was a bundle of high spirited humor. I had some of my most favorite moments watching episodes of  “Lancelot Link” with him. It was Malachi who taught me that there were “Actors, and then there were performers” , and that “the best all around attitude, was gratitude.”

To Boldly Wear What No Dog Wants to Wear

The Bud Light cans are a nice touch… also an explanation.

Thanks Maria, for sending this one! http://www.wagreflex.com/2009/08/to-boldy-wear-what-no-dog-wants-to-wear.html

Read the comments column- worth the price of admission.

Lucky Pierre

Note I saved from John telling me that Pierre Drolet had called.

Jayne – The Hero of Canton.

Dea kept on me until I finally watched Joss Wedon’s “Firefly”. I admit, I kicked and screamed, and squirmed all the way! Cowboys and horses! Bah! Now I am hopelessly hooked. One of the funnest episodes is “Jaynestown”.  Here, Adam Baldwin (Jayne) sings the Ballad of “A Man Called Jayne”. Note the “cunning” hat.

Lunacy

 

BarBara Luna is one of my most favorite beloved nuts! Here is a joke she just E-mailed me -

The love story of Ralph and Edna…

 Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.  One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool  Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end.

He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him.  She swam to the bottom and pulled him out.  When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna’s heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, ‘Edna, I have good news and bad news.  The good news is you’re being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love.  I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.

The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him.  I am so sorry, but he’s dead.’

Edna replied, ‘He didn’t hang himself, I put him there to dry.  How soon can I go home?’

Today is Mental Health Day!  You can do your bit by remembering to send an email to an unstable friend…

Done my part!!!

Sway Over The Captain’s Table

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When Dominic discovered Dorothy’s cooking he went wild. Usually stage food is barely passable, and there’s only two ways  Dorth makes “barely passable” food… that’s no way, and no how! So whenever Dominic knew Dorth would be cookin’, he’d be rubbin’ his hands together in gleeful anticipation. Well we used to get the dailies up in the art department, and one day I come across this blooper that shows it better than I can ever describe it. Watch Dom blow his lines and not care, cause he’s lovin’ it so much!

More galley tales -

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/sway-over-the-captains-table/

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-captains-table-redux/

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/report-from-the-galley-menu-two/

If you want to get in on the goodness, here is what had Dom over the moon, recipe courtesy of the Enterprise “Kitchen Goddess” Dorothy-

You are getting sleeeeeeepy…

Hey! Working in television is exhausting! You’ve all heard about that meat grinder called Hollywood? That’s right! You grab some Z’s when you can!

Here are some Trek art department snaps of baby Fritz, little Jimmy, Anfonee, yittle Tony… among others… and they’re doin’ some champion log sawin’! Look at these very carefully, and let them serve as inspiration over the long holiday weekend!

Hush-a-bye don’t you cry, Go to sleep-y, little baby. When you wake you shall have All the pretty little horses. Blacks and bays, dapple grays, Coach and six white horses…

Psycho Doug

Some of the gang in the Dick Tracy thread were talking about how the “Sawdust” house looks like the Psycho house. That prompted me to post this. I wonder who I’ve got in the trunk?

Keep In Delorean

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Just Funny

Dorth passed this on to me this morning. Just funny -

http://richards-creations.net/Videos/Are-women-born-like-this.html

Dead and Loving it

It’s the miles…

When Gary’s BSG in house VFX took on it’s first big episode (Scar), there were just a couple of us on staff at the time. Needless to say, we put in some very long days getting the show ready for air. Often the battle behind the scenes is as intense as what ends up on screen. Our gang stays connected thru an instant messanger that allows an avatar. During the course of the production, I gradually switched out my avatar to express how I was feeling.

Red Dwarf – Dave Teaches Kryten to Lie

 

Kryten – Oh sir! Don’t you think I’d love to be deceitful, unpleasant and offensive? Those are the human qualities I admire the most!

On one of the other threads we got into talking about the BBC series Red Dwarf. It came to my attention that many of you have never seen the “Small Rouge One”. I’m a Red Dwarf fanatic. Back when I was on DS9, RD was not available in the U.S., and Greg Jein was my source. They found their way to Greg through the RD underground of fans. Some of the funniest moments in science fiction are Red Dwarf moments. I’ve embedded a clip of one of my favorite routines. Enjoy!