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Category Archives: B42 Site News
Podcast Schedule Change Announcement: New, altered, and ending schedules
When I started podcasting, I was single and living alone. That is no longer true. My amazing fiancee and her kids now live with me, schedules have changed at work, and I ultimately have less time to create and consume podcasts than I used to. What exactly this means is described in this announcement podcast, and in the text below.
New “Hitchhiker’s Guide” Comes to BBC Radio
Douglas Adams’ influential The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy started its long life as a radio show, before becoming a series of novels, graphic novels, a TV series, a movie, and the inspiration behind a nerdy website’s name. Now Eoin Colfer’s continuation of Adams’ series, And Another Thing will be adapted as a British radio show, bringing things full circle. Adams’ widow approves. What does everyone else think?
Marvel’s Agent Carter Review: “The Edge of Mystery” and “A Little Song and Dance”
Marvel’s Agent Carter delivers another pair of back-to-back episodes as Jarvis takes direct action, and Team Carter face Whitney Frost, Jack Thompson, Vernon Masters and some not-especially-competent mobsters.
TMNT (2007): Silver Screen Superheroes
Alex continues to fill in on the Silver Screen Superheroes podcast. This time around, he’s discussing the 2007 CGI incarnation of TMNT, which can be heard here.
Trailer Park Tuesday – November 17, 2015
A quick round-up featuring Finding Dory, Gods of Egypt, Moonwalkers, Warcraft, and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Doctor Who Review: The Girl Who Died
A Viking village is threatened by aliens reputed to be the greatest warriors in the galaxy.
Weekly Digital Disk Picks – September 1, 2015
It must be September: Halloween stuff is coming out.
The 80’s are Reborn with “Kung Fury”
The mind boggles with the sheer cheesiness of this short film, an homage to really, really bad 1980’s action flicks. What started out as a trailer and Kickstarter campaign has become, quite possibly, one of the most clever chunks of nostalgia love committed to film. If you have a half-hour to kill, sit back and enjoy.
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Ground control to VP Tom
If you read this soon enough, you can watch the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9, live.
Sliding along through space
NASA has plans to reach Europa
I knew they were around here somewhere
Neil Armstrong’s widow found his lunar souvenirs in a closet.
In space, no one can hear you LOL
People are getting a grin out of this bubbly Hubble image.