Feb 132013
 

dabney2Of course you’ve seen this guy. He played the boss, a lot. Tootsie, 9 to 5, you name it, Dabney was the go-to guy when you needed a self-serving jackass type who is up to no good. You know…a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot type.

Well, he did get some other roles. He once auditioned for the role of The Professor in “Gilligan’s Island”, for example. This Austin, Texas native attended the Virginia Military Institute and was drafted into the army, serving in Europe in the mid ’50’s. Somewhere in there, he also managed to study law. That must be where he found out he was funny.
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Feb 112013
 

kickstarter-logoOk, by now if you actually follow Moby’s! at all you’ll notice that I plug a couple of things that are using or plan to use Kickstarter campaigns, namely Hollywood Mogul 4 and the upcoming CJ Cherryh’s Foreigner Audio Movie. Kickstarter is a great crowdfunding site to be sure, and many great things have come out of it. Sometimes I like to just browse and see what’s there, what projects look like they are going to make it, which ones are not. It really tells you what kind of stuff people want, ’cause they are putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak. And then it happened. I think I actually face-palmed when I read:

Kickstarter Open Source Death Star

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We need to protect ourselves from threats far, far away. So, lets build a death star!

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Feb 092013
 

insigniaA lot of the facebook updates lately have concentrated on what seems to be the next phase of the pre-production: uniforms! The team at Starship Ajax have been sharing some great photo’s and updates from Joseph Kerezman of costumecostumecostume.com. Joseph is helping out Ajax with the uniform accents during some downtime on Star Trek: Excalibur, another Trek Fan-Based webseries. The USS Ajax Insignia being delivered is just out-of-site. Continue reading »

Feb 052013
 

HourHave you ever, for some small reason, made a silly wish only to find out it just came true the day before? Moby just had one of those things happen today…simply awesome. That little wish was for a book called Hour of the Octopus by Joel Rosenberg to be available on audio, so on a whim I checked Audible and there it was. Released yesterday…wow.

The whole thing started while working on the previous post about the Foreigner Audio Movie and I came across a post on Ms. Cherryh’s blog stating that she would like to (perhaps) do her own version of The Clan of the Cave Bear. So of course I immediately got on twitter and called her a tease because that would be fantastic, if she actually did it, but it will never happen. Tease. So, while composing my little tweet to CJ, I got to thinking and suggested that she would be perfect to write a sequel to Rosenberg’s D’Shai novels. And THAT led me to check Audible to see if there was an audio version available. And there it was. Funny how that works out sometimes. Continue reading »

Feb 042013
 

CherryhForeigner“The Movie in Audio project is, simply put, to take the first trilogy of C.J. Cherryh‘s “Foreigner Universe” and turn it into three 6+ hour audio dramas, each complete with a full cast, total soundscape and original score.”

A great sci-fi book by Moby’s favorite author is getting the ‘Movie-in-Audio’ treatment! A novel of first contact, this one contains all the things CJ Cherryh is known for. Her ability to make Humans the aliens in a detailed world have won her many awards, including two Hugo Award wins.  Continue reading »

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