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Courting the vote of the midichlorian demographic

19 December 202019 December 2020 Earl

There’s something woven throughout modern Star Wars that kind of pinged my radar and spoke to my inherent distrust of organized religion.

Leave a commentSerious Stuff, Television & MoviesCOVID-19, Politics, Religion, Star Wars, The Mandalorian

Pting & Porg – THEY FIGHT CRIME!

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

Of styro-stuffing, set-building, and starting to feel like home

11 November 201811 November 2018 Earl

When we toured the house in Utah that we’ve wound up renting, the first glimpse of the basement – an area as big as the living room upstairs, but in a decidedly unfinished state without […]

Leave a commentToiling In The Pixel MinesAction Figures, Doctor Who, Podcast, Star Trek, Star Wars, Video Games

The Packening III: The Packening Continues

8 April 20188 April 2018 Earl

As is generally well known at this point, once my house was mine alone (and my kids), I started taking great strides – well, as many as I could afford on a tight budget – […]

Leave a commentHome BaseStar Trek, Star Wars, The Packening, Video Games

New phone, who dis?

23 March 201821 March 2018 Earl

Our computer are down, we cannot help yoooooou!

Leave a commentFunny StuffStar Wars

Rogue One: A Vector Graphics Story

15 January 201715 January 2017 Earl

Dear company now passing yourself off as Atari, This would be the best possible use of your time and resources right now. Think of it as a game design document built on hope. You may […]

Leave a commentGaming, Television & MoviesStar Wars, Video Games

Star Wars “Vintage” T-shirt construction kit

6 June 20166 June 2016 Earl

Thanks to scans of the (now incredibly rare) 1977 Star Wars Iron-On Transfer book, anyone can now get some inkjet iron-on transfer sheets and make their own brand-new copies of the almost ubiquitous T-shirts that […]

Leave a commentTelevision & MoviesStar Wars

Heroes included at no extra cost

22 May 2016 Earl

If you’re not interested in a very brief rant about Star Wars figures, you might as well skip this one. I see that the only way to get a 3.75″ scale Maz Kanata figure is […]

Leave a commentTelevision & Movies, ToyBoxStar Wars

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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 #7636: Things To Watch While Landing On Mars

    The week of August 29th, 1976: Let’s say you’re heading for a landing on Mars, getting ready to do science stuff.  You’re probably not thinking about the fact that you’re going to miss shows about alien men escaping the yoke of female oppression, treacherous shape-shifters, and big Helix energy.  It’s a good thing Retrogram is…

    https://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/retrogram/retrogram_7636.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…

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

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Was Q*Bert too easy?  Apparently its creators thought so, and they prepared a little something for players who were too good at the original.

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: Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert (arcade, 1983)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_UqkzEijQ8ng
Oh, but we do need another H.E.R.O. - part man, part helicopter, prone to being killed by touching bats, and still all awesome.

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: H.E.R.O. (Colecovision, 1984)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_vpQWY_tB0lI
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 ( https://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 https://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 https://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

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

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

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

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - https://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: https://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 https://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at https://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 ( https://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 https://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 https://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

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

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

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

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - https://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: https://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 https://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at https://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 ( https://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 https://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 https://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

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

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

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

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - https://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: https://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 https://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at https://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 ( https://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 https://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 https://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

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

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

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

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - https://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: https://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 https://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at https://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
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