Books To Open Your Mind- Dinosaurs Are EVERYWHERE!!!

The fact that birds are the living members of the dinosaur family has been firmly established thanks to many discoveries in my lifetime, although it was suspected and stated by very early dinosaur paleontologists. There have been dinosaur books written with this perspective. 

Strange New Worlds Season Four

The New “old” Star Trek show continues on. This season is focusing more on classic series style “done in one” tales. However, some continuing character threads come into play. I'm a big fan of the way this show fully embraced how Star Trek has always had episodes across multiple genres, and whether they be serious or crazy they always maintained the dramatic tension and stayed true to the characters throughout.

[I wrote these as they came out, so any thoughts after the season completed will be in brackets at the end of each episode.]

 

See- I Can Like Films With Bad Paleontology If They're Fun Enough

We saw The End of Oak Street and it was a hoot. 

Atlantic City Day 1 January 4 2026

 A Tiny Dinosaur Encounter

 

Disney World 2025 Day 6 – Friday, May 23

 A Salute To The Tusker House, But Mostly The Bread Pudding

As promised (and also as prepared for by our version of “sleeping in”) we awoke at Stupid O’clock in the morning. (That’s Disney Standard Time- which is later than airport standard time, but still quite stupid.) Our target was the 7:30AM Animal Kingdom Extra Magic Hour Half Hour Rope Drop.

Disney World 2025 Day 2 – Monday, May 19

A Salute To All Animal Kingdom, But Mostly The Lion King Show

The Making of Jurassic Park- Mistakes!

 An Instagram post about an inaccuracy of how the Brachiosaurus ate in the original Jurassic Park led me to remember and comment about an event that happened shortly after I started my full time job for a medical device company. 

As I cant tell any story without a quick divergence to something similar: Years after that memory- my daughter's class had me come in to juggle and (because school should be educational) also give a talk about the heart and our device. Following the juggling, what I actually do for a living confused the children-  and I quote, "I thought your Dad was a clown."

However, years before that moment to get back on track, because I was still in contact with my fifth grade teacher,  (and my third grade teacher who was then principal and could approve this) she invited me to juggle for her class, and (because school should be educational) also give a talk. However, since I was THE dinosaur kid in their classes  (and likely the school), she asked me to give a talk about dinosaurs. Therefore (since it was 1994, the film was a huge hit and was available via home release and cable) I gave them a presentation based around things the original Jurassic Park got wrong. (Even in the 90's it was an extensive list. We have learned a huge amount more about dinosaurs since then.)

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 2A

Beast Wars Season Two

The DVD Menus are the same as season one, but showing blue controls instead of green. Oh, and there is a short intro (using below the show level digital animation) of shooting a hole in the wall to get into the control room.

Books To Open Your Mind- Rises Falls and Reigns of Prehistoric Animals.

 

As with almost all adventures with the Prehistoric in my life, this one also began at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1B

The Web

Question- Are beast forms organic, and that’s what protects them from unstable Energon? With the old CGI it is hard to tell.

Transformers Rewatch Beast Wars Season 1A

BEAST WARS  Introduction

Ten years after the Generation One Transformers cartoon ended. Hasbro brought the franchise back in a modified, or as someone who is hilarious might say, "a transformed" way.

Jurassic World Weariness

Hey, Universal!  Come here for a minute.

Have a seat, please.

Relax. 

Uncle Jeff needs to have a talk with you.

Transformers Rewatch Original Season 1B

         S.O.S Dinobots

Wheeljack and Ratchet (Ambulance Minivan) create sentient life. No one is phased or even bats an electronic eye at this. Is that. Normal? Is that how Cybertronian reproduction works?  (Later on we will learn the answer is a resounding "NO")

DC and Monsters, The Good, the Bad and the...

Seriously, what in the hell was that crazy awesome thing?

But before we reach that story ...

Let's start with the Good.

Our Heroes Investigate Gonzo’s Stronghold Part 4

Washington DC Day 7- May 20, 2023

 Excessive Elephants

Washington DC Day 5- May 18, 2023

Zestful Zeuglodon

Christmas Village 2023

A Mesozoic Daring, Highly Trained Special Mission Force

or

A Ruthless Terrorist Organization, Determined to Be Hos D'oeuvres 

This year's annual battle is introduced by the Marvel Legends' interpretation of the Radio City Rockettes' "New York at Christmas" Production Number.  

Around the Hess Tour bus are Enchantress, Scarlett Witch, Mantis, White Tiger, Dazzler (here for every Christmas, by law) Elektra, Polaris and Thundra.  

A big thank you to Anabelle for completely ignoring me when I said, 

"You'll never get that many Marvel Super Women figures to stand up."

Granted, they did go over like dominos after she went back to school, adding extensively to the holiday profanity party as I tried to fix them.

Anyway- on to the battle!

Disney World 2022 day 6, August 7- Soup with Mushroom-pah

The start of this day needs some explanation.

Disney World 2022 day 2 August 3- Hak-oompah Matata