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Year: 2019

Time has rearranged, but time has the final word

10 November 201910 November 2019 Earl

Who wins when ELO knocks the stars of Doctor Who (and their charity album) out of the #1 slot on the charts? Maybe we all still win.

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A chunk of 1995 on VHS

19 October 201919 October 2019 Earl

It’s a slow, rainy weekend, so I’ve spent a bit of time today getting back to some VHS archiving/digitization, a project I paused due to the move a year ago. I had to watch quite […]

Leave a commentHome Base, Toiling In The Pixel MinesThe Pharis Wheel

Conversations with Little C, Part 1825

7 October 20197 October 2019 Earl

Little C on livestock (en route to preschool this morning): Dad, I like cows better than horses because cows can make milk come out of their bottoms.

Leave a comment...And Little C Makes 4, Funny Stuff, Home Base

Remembering Aron Eisenberg

22 September 201922 September 2019 Earl

I’m still trying to process the news that Aron Eisenberg passed last night. The evolution of his Ferengi character, Nog, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a lot of personal meaning for me, as […]

Leave a commentSerious Stuff, Television & MoviesStar Trek

Pting & Porg – THEY FIGHT CRIME!

21 September 2019 Earl
Leave a commentFunny Stuff, Television & Movies, Toiling In The Pixel MinesDoctor Who, Star Wars

The Black Hole & WALL-E Cinematic Universe

12 September 201912 September 2019 Earl

There is, in fact, method to the madness I’ve been talking about for many a year. These two movies belong together. Here, I’ll show my work. Images are zoomable. Feel free to send others here […]

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Coffee expertly roasted by dragons

6 May 20196 May 2019 Earl

Okay, so here’s the thing. I used to do post-production for a living, albeit for a local TV station or four in one state or another. So I know, intimately, what kind of phone call […]

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“I’m a staff writer, I fight for the users!”, said no one ever

21 April 201921 April 2019 Earl

Let’s have a conversation about the second season of Star Trek: Discovery. Copious spoilers follow ahead if you haven’t already seen the series.

Leave a commentTelevision & MoviesStar Trek

You’re who, again?

I'm just your typical compulsively-writing, sci-fi-and-science-obsessed, classic-video-game-playing, action-figure-collecting dad.


That's me in red with the smooth round head.

I run theLogBook.com and host its daily Escape Pod podcast and the monthly podcasts Select Game and Don't Give This Tape To Earl. I've written several books (WARP!1, VWORP!1, VWORP!2, Fatherhood, Fandom And Fading Out, and The Escape Pod Logs), and produced the Phosphor Dot Fossils video game documentaries. Follow me on Twitter @LogBookGuy, like theLogBook.com on Facebook, or contact me here.

Retrogram Podcast

  • Retrogram #6960: 2020 Gunn Salute

    1969!?: An oft-unsung luminary of taking sci-fi seriously left us just before the end of 2020 – so Retrogram is turning back the clock further than usual to delve into the origins of one of his very few screen credits. The Immortal lives…again. (23:04) Right-click here and “save as” to download this podcast. Show notes…

    http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/retrogram/retrogram_6960.mp3

Don't Give This Tape To Earl

  • 403: Showrunner! The Home Game

    Cut and Print: In yet another testament to the very strange way in which your host’s brain works, enjoy this introduction to Showrunner!: The Home Game – also known as outlining a nonexistent season of TV without actually writing out the episodes, or window shopping at the idea store. Also: what I’ve been reading, some…

    http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/thistape/this_tape_403_showrunner.mp3

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It is a time of darkness, of killer pickles and homicidal hot dogs...it is the time of burgers, and it's happening on your Atari.  But does it really play like the arcade game?

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: BurgerTime (Atari 2600, 1983)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_8CO50EI_MPY
The hills have eggs.  I only have eggs for you.  The eggs have it.  Aim for the whites of their eggs.  The eggs are the window to the soul.  Wait, what??

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Eggor (arcade, 1983)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_pPErcH4Bglo
At the bottom of the world, a penguin goes about his day...and you can help him!...at least for short stretches of time in this unfinished playable demo.

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Antarctic Adventure (Colecovision, 1984 [unreleased])
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_DvP0orFfeRc
Is your fish in a funk...or in a tank?  Or is it in the deep blue sea with things that can be shot and turned into cherries?  What about this game makes sense, and why is it so much fun?

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Funky Fish (Atari 2600, 1983 unreleased prototype)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_LNNn6RmM57c
Donkey Kong has finally had it with Mario's crap and has kidnapped him instead of Pauline.  But the female of the species may be more dangerous...

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Donkey Kong (arcade, 1981/2013)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_xCnEUm8ghks
Back in '85, they had disks that go jingle jangle jingle - and they were marketed as "electronic greeting cards".  See what it was like on the Apple II, Atari 8-bits, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS PCs.

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Jingle Disk supercut
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_MIEMHh2I0EA
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