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memories / Wednesday — Comments Off on Huh
12
Oct 16

Huh

It is funny where things come to you. Some important thought once came to me in a dream. Once I had an important realization while driving up a little hill in a quaint downtown area, wondering if I would hit the green light above. I’ve had plenty of life’s little epiphanies while standing over a sink of one sort or another.

And now today. Today, I was cleaning out my phone a bit. I need the space, you see. So I’ve dumped a lot of things and I’ve removed all of the messages I can stand to delete and now I’m going through old texts with a few key correspondents. At this point I’m deleting the odd picture or two, but mostly reminiscing. You know how it is: sometimes you see a thing you’ve written and it brings back the flood of details that worked around the bits you wrote. I stumbled on a particular text and that prompted this:

I was sitting in an office when I typed that text. I was sitting in a different office when I found it again.

And it is funny where things come to you.

history / memories / photo / television / Thursday — Comments Off on Beam this up
5
Oct 16

Beam this up

There has been a Star Trek exhibit at one of the campus museums. As far as I can tell there might be 16 museums and galleries on this one campus. This was at Lilly, the acclaimed rare book library. The experts there house more than 400,000 books, more than seven million manuscripts, 100,000 pieces of sheet music and, right now, a small Star Trek exhibit.

Being the last few days, these were on display, I had to stop by.

Please note the date. This is a 1964 treatment of the original Trek, with Gene Rodenberry’s name across the top:

This means that staple has been in place for more than 52 years. Incredible.

Also, look at the example episode descriptions. Some seem familiar. Some read like obvious early drafts of old favorites. And one just might have been altogether forgotten, fortunately.

One of the classics, the Trouble With Tribbles, which was written by David Gerrold:

Side note, the tribble episode might be one of the last of the original series I ever managed to catch. Famous as it was, I never saw it on television.

This is from another classic episode, Amok Time, written by the great Theodore Sturgeon:

And, oh look, something like tri-ox is actually a medical reality now.

And just over from the the script for the famous third act sick bay scene was this handsome cover:

It was a small exhibit, and mostly script-based items of the above sort. But it was worth walking a few blocks on a warm autumn day to see. And, by the door, someone had filled a display case with action figures:

I’m pretty sure that they just wanted to show off their Gorn.

Friday / memories / photo / Pie Day / site — Comments Off on On the road
30
Sep 16

On the road

Saw this flier today. Well sure, I thought to myself:

I must say this: there are no lame cat fliers full of typos all over the bulletin boards here. That, in its own way, is just another small relief.

We are traveling this weekend, to Georgia. For a wedding. A wedding in the Deep South in the fall on a Saturday. Georgia and Tennessee are playing in a rivalry game. I don’t care about either team, of course, but given the locale of the wedding, it might come up among the many lovely guests.

Here’s my rule: If you think enough of me to invite me to your wedding, and it is on a fall Saturday, I will attend if I can. No football game would get in the way of that. I will also make fun of you about it throughout your wedded bliss.

So that’s what we’ll be doing tomorrow, which meant traveling today. Which meant the road, which meant dinner on the road which meant, in Nashville, Tennessee:

And today is Friday which means Friday is Pie Day:

Interesting tidbit, meanwhile, about Bloomington: You can’t get pie anywhere.

adventures / memories / photo / Twitter / weekend — Comments Off on We went a ways
24
Sep 16

We went a ways

A quick snapshot of some barns we passed between here and there during a morning errand.

The there being Columbus, Indiana, where we had to pick up some new sneakers. Because sometimes you do that, going over hill and dale for running shoes.

As I wrote on Twitter:

Here it was just car, car, car, at least. And this funky bridge just as you get to Columbus:

We didn’t stick around to visit the town, but right away you get the impression that there’s something neat worth seeing over there. I’ve no doubt we’ll be back. But it is a Saturday, after all …

memories / Monday / photo — Comments Off on This really takes you back
12
Sep 16

This really takes you back

I haven’t been in a real radio studio* since 2004. And I just wrote and deleted 160 words about that. Suffice it to say, it was an important period of my career, very helpful in many ways and still impacts the work I do today. And, yet, it was a good time to move on to the next thing. If you find that theme in your career path, I figure, then you’re doing something right.

I’m doing something right.

Anyway, the three things that have been a part of every job I’ve had in my career have been, in no particular order, writing, editing and my voice. And now I’m running, among other things, this brand new production facility too:

This is a 14-channel Axia board that has four customizable configurations and push-button alterations besides. This is the nicest board I’ve ever stood over, and the muscle memory kicks in easily. This will be a production booth, a podcast facility and a part-time radio booth. (The actual radio station will join us in the building, upstairs, next year.) This room can do a lot, even in those times when it only needs to do a few things. When they designed and engineered it, they decided to build it up for anything. Eight microphones, two CDs, three computers, a turntable, a piano, two phone lines and more. I’m sure I’ll spend a small amount of time in here doing things.

*I built one in my last office and will re-construct it in my home office one day soon. I can do most of the same things in my home-studio, but it isn’t exactly the same.

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