Don't recall this being previously mentioned on the board; if it was, my apologies...

For any of you 007 fans, Ivana Milicevic (Angelique in the 2004 DS pilot) has a small part in Casino Royale, which I checked out today. A great big thumbs up on this one...

A more in-depth commentary may be here found here.

The series finale:

We were having a very nice, quiet Halloween, with only a handful of trick-or-treaters...until the bunnies showed up.

 

The Brady Bunch thing was a tongue-in-cheek remark, but it's kind of funny the writer presented it as "fact."

When I was a kid, though, I always watched The Bradys. I was deeply in love with Marcia -- at least until the Partridge Family came round, and then I decided I wanted to marry Susan Dey instead.

You see, when DS was canceled, continuing to pine for my first love -- Angelique, of course -- was just too painful.

--M

I'm not a hundred percent positive, but I think that's the show that featured my friend Terry Bane, whose vampire "encyclopedia,"  The Actual, Factual Dracula, is coming out in the spring. I wrote the introduction for it. I'm going to have to keep an eye out for the show to come on again, as I still haven't seen it.

Just received "The House of Despair" today and started listening this afternoon. So far, I'm hooked. Excellent re-recording of the main theme.

Happy birthday, retzev.  

Tangentially related, perhaps -- a good many years back, in the mid-90s, I used to design scenery for my Microsoft Flight Simulator (I think it was version 4.0). It was an intricate, time-consuming process, but you could actually reproduce real-life settings on a map, or create your own, in 3-D, and then fly over and to them. I did tons of real cities and towns, done to perfect scale, based on maps and photographs. You could also set up navigational beacons (which I did for the whole United States, using actual locations and frequencies), as well as program air traffic control to direct flights from location to location. I created about 50 locations, including Chicago; Atlanta; Washington, DC; Baltmore; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Raleigh-Durham; Greensboro; Savannah; Greenville-Spartanburg; Martinsville, VA; Arkham, MA; and yes... Collinsport. I built up a pretty nice Collinwood using the block shapes available in the scenery designer program, and put in all the familiar Collinsport landmarks, including the Old House, the Blue Whale, the Collinsport Inn, the Evans Cottage, Rose Cottage, Windcliffe, the police station, the hospital, Eagle Hill Cemetery (pretty much a big green and brown polygon), various village buildings, and a radio station with a tower (which I called WCPT). I made the local runway just a short one (3000 ft), paved, and set it about 5 miles out of town. The location was a bit north of Bar Harbor, in Hancock County.

I crashed a Cessna 152 on Widow's Hill one time. Was flying too low while trying to see in the windows at Collinwood.