The Rivals #PPTPlaytime

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The High Ground (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 12) Sensitive, Artistic Terrorist Is Also a Terrorist

(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break) Crusher finds herself sympathizing with the charming terrorist who kidnapped her. After last week’s “The Hunted” and the week before’s “The Defector,” it seems the writers are very interested in humanizing perceived enemies. An unusually exposition-heavy captain’s log establishes the Enterprise is visiting a non-aligned world shaken by terrorists.…

On a little afternoon walk with my son.

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Every few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw “The Empire Strikes Back” the night it opened, and blurted out the big spoiler during gym class.

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And you thought your last teleconference was rough!

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Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots

Researchers identified more than 100 false narratives about COVID-19 that are proliferating on Twitter by accounts controlled by bots. Among the misinformation disseminated by bot accounts were tweets that conspiracy theories about hospitals being filled with mannequins, or tweets connected the spread of the coronavirus to 5G wireless towers, a notion that is patently untrue.…

The Hunted (ST: TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 11) Honorable soldier exiled by the peaceful society he defended

(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break.) A great Trek morality drama, most obviously inspired by the challenges faced by US troops returning from Vietnam, but light on preachiness and heavy on action. Impressed by the cultured and intellectual Angosians, Picard offers to help them recapture a violent prisoner who escaped a penal colony. The prisoner’s…

Here I am sketching spaceships like I’m 12 again. I feel like re-reading the novelization of “The Black Hole” and watching Johnny Quest. #lockdown #blender3D

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The Defector (ST:TNG Rewatch; Season Three, Episode 10) Cold War Brinksmanship, via Shakespeare

(Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break.) A Romulan defector exposes a planned incursion against the Federation, in a slow but gripping character study that comments on the Cold War. As I kid, I remember being transfixed by the 1983 TV movie The Day After, which depicts a nuclear attack on America. I doodled mushroom clouds…

It was Mrs. White with the revolver in the ballroom. #winning

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In May, 2000, I was blogging about the ‘I Love You’ virus, hacking URLs, PG Wodehouse, and Pez poetry

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Sherlock Holmes and The Woman (WAOB Live Virtual Performance)

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Jaw-dropping moments of insight and humanity. So funny, so edgy, so affirming! I did not expect #PPTPlaytime “The Boougie Gentleman” to play me like that. Wow! @thepublicpgh

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Masked up, so I don’t infect you, in case you are in a vulnerable group. Feeling healthy. Not afraid. Just being decent to fellow humans.

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Sherlock Holmes and The Woman (daughter and I rehearsing for a live recording Friday afternoon)

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Crochet octopus for the win! Crazy costume for #pptplaytime Boougie Gentleman (adaptation of Moliere, by way of The Jeffersons)

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Spring 2020 Quarantine Grades Submitted

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My brother set my parents up for a Mother’s Day video call.

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Kimmel’s Jab at Pence’s “empty box” joke illustrates a bi-partisan #fakenews problem

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