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sdelmonte1. Our landline is finally working! It's the same number as before, though at this point we have not hooked up the answering machine. Our new address is...
144-32 71st Road
Flushing, NY 11367
2. UPN is cancelling Enterprise. As a lifelong devotee of all things Star Trek, I mention this only to note that it seems the Trek phenomenon, born in 1966, revived first as an animated series and then as feature films in the 1970s, and given a very long life by four additional TV shows, countless books and video games, and even a casino, is at an end. Oh, I'm sure that we will see more books and games and some new films or TV shoes in the next ten years. But for now, as Enterprise ends its undistinguished run, the Trek Era is over.
Ironically enough, it will officially end in May, when the last episode airs and around the same time that another pop culture phenomenon, the Star Wars films, will also come to an end. Clearly, it's time to move on. But to what?
3. In trying to find a phone number for a staffer at the Washington Post, I came across this rather silly obituary for Rose Mary Woods, the woman erased those 18 minutes from the Nixon tapes...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34034-2005Jan24.html
Get the joke? (If not, don't be worried - apparently lots of other people didn't, either.) Hard to believe that the newspaper most well regarded for its coverage of Watergate would do such a dopey thing.
144-32 71st Road
Flushing, NY 11367
2. UPN is cancelling Enterprise. As a lifelong devotee of all things Star Trek, I mention this only to note that it seems the Trek phenomenon, born in 1966, revived first as an animated series and then as feature films in the 1970s, and given a very long life by four additional TV shows, countless books and video games, and even a casino, is at an end. Oh, I'm sure that we will see more books and games and some new films or TV shoes in the next ten years. But for now, as Enterprise ends its undistinguished run, the Trek Era is over.
Ironically enough, it will officially end in May, when the last episode airs and around the same time that another pop culture phenomenon, the Star Wars films, will also come to an end. Clearly, it's time to move on. But to what?
3. In trying to find a phone number for a staffer at the Washington Post, I came across this rather silly obituary for Rose Mary Woods, the woman erased those 18 minutes from the Nixon tapes...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34034-2005Jan24.html
Get the joke? (If not, don't be worried - apparently lots of other people didn't, either.) Hard to believe that the newspaper most well regarded for its coverage of Watergate would do such a dopey thing.
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Date: Feb. 3rd, 2005 09:20 pm (UTC)