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Spent the Apollo 11 50th anniversary listening to an actual Apollo engineer, Lovell Stoddard, discuss his work on the command module heat shield (he was presented with a piece of surviving heat shield from the automated flight of Apollo 4). Also on hand was Planetary Society radio host Mat Kaplan to talk about our future in space.
Tribbles; born-pregnant fur balls that are sweet and adorable, but an ecological menace ("The Trouble with Tribbles," DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations"): musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2018/12/20/deep-space-nines...
Our room at the Westin Bayview downtown; we brought enough stuff (including a microwave and electric kettle) to thoroughly occupy the place for five days.
From the panel for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency at San Diego Comic-Con in Hall H on Sunday July 23rd 2017
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the great genre movie-going years of all time with such films as The Terminator, Dune, Ghostbusters, The Last Starfighter, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Starman, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Red Dawn, Buckaroo Banzai, Splash, Cloak & Dagger, Repo Man, Night of the Comet, and, of course, 1984, Featuring Ashley E. Miller (screenwriter "X-Men: First Class," "Sarah Connor Chronicles," co-host, The 4:30 Movie podcast), Mark A. Altman ("Free Enterprise," co-host, The 4:30 Movie podcast), and Isaac Altman (son of Mark) and Caden (son of Ashley) Miller, the co-hosts of The Kids Stay In The Podcast and Dan Vebber ("The Simpsons").
From the JAWS 50th anniversary panel in Ballroom 6. Jules and I got front row seating.
No cast members from the movie were present, but moderator Mark Atkinson was in full Quint mode, along with Chris Gore (“Attack of the Show”), Steph Cannon (writer/film critic), author Patrick Jankiewicz (“The Jaws Companion”) and literal world record holding Jaws collector uber fan Chris Kizka, who showed off some of his latest acquisitions from the con, with a slideshow of his Jaws memories.
JAWS screenwriter Carl Gottlieb gave a prerecorded video message (which glitched out twice—“He ate the light”), and moderator Mark Atkinson showed his video from Martha’s Vineyard
They gave away “I Survived the Jaws 50th Anniversary Panel” t-shirts to those at the Q&A, including a devoted mother who asked for her too-shy little boy, who first saw Jaws at a very young age in hospital when he underwent heart surgery.
All in all, it was a great celebration of "JAWS" fandom.