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Day 17

…I saw Gravity in 3D! First off, the movie was great. Plenty has already been said about the acting and the visuals (which are both fantastic) but has anyone mentioned how good the score is? I thought it was great! IF you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend seeing Gravity. It’s a great film. Sandra acts her ass off.

But do I recommend seeing it in 3D? That’s the question. Those who know me, know I am not a fan of the new 3D fad. It’s never really added to the movie for me and it just blends in about 10 minutes so I don’t even notice it anymore. But this move was constantly doing things that took advantage of the 3D without doing gimmicky “Jaws 3D” sorts of things. I noticed cool little 3D effects throughout the movie.

…and yet I still wouldn’t recommend spending the extra money for 3D. The only reason I did it was to not wait an extra hour to see the movie. The 3D wasn’t worth the extra money, but the movie was…so I’m calling it a wash. Speaking of wash, gotta use that hour I saved to wash the dishes (and empty the trash, and…ugh other crap). Toodles.

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Day 16

As you can see from the title, this blog is a “part 3” so, yuo’re probably going to want to read part 1 and part 2 before you start. For those of you who refuse to read, here’s a brief recap of what’s come so far. This is a script I wrote 18 years ago combining Star Wars and Star Trek. In part 1, Luke, Han, Leia, and the rest of the main Star Wars gang chased space pirates into a time vortex. In part 2, they met up with Kirk, Spock and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. There was a big space battle that re-activated the time portal. As we re-enter the action, Luke’s X Wing has been destroyed, but the Enterprise has safely beamed Luke, Spock, McCoy and Artoo over to the disabled pirate ship to investigate. Meanwhile Han, Leia, Lando and C3P0 wait on the nearby Millennium Falcon. Yeah, it makes marginally more sense if you read the first parts. Let’s get back to the action…

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Day 15

This is a continuation of yesterday’s blog. It’s part two of my fan script I wrote many years ago combining Star Wars and Star Trek. When we left the story, Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Chewie, C3P0, and R2D2 were chasing space pirates who had stolen a time machine. The pirates had activated the time machine and created an “energy hole” in space (Did I mention I was a teenager when I wrote this?). Our heroes were following them inside. Let’s see how the story progresses, shall we?

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Day 14

The following is from a script I wrote as a teenager which I have only recently discovered in my old files. It was my attempt to make a movie combing the Star Wars trilogy (there were no prequels when I wrote this), the original Star Trek crew (there was no J.J. Abrams when I wrote this), and the crew from Star Trek the Next Generation. I only got as far as the first third of the movie…basically setting everything up. I never finished it, nor do I even remember how I was going to end it. But I thought I’d share as far as little Tim Babb got.

I present it to you as I wrote it, which means it’s full of spelling and grammatical errors, it’s in all caps for some reason, and it’s marvelously simplistic. Enjoy!

Part 1

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Day 13

Another day, another dip into the vault. This time I found a birthday card that two of my friends made for me. It was so awesome, I had to share. First the cover.

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Day 12

This is a pretty lame blog BUT I finished editing TANcast and posted it. That’s worth something isn’t it?

No? Well, I’ll see what I can do tomorrow. PLUS Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I’ll be posting another “treasure” from my digital vault. I wrote the beginning part of a script that combined the original Star Trek cast, the Next Generation Star Trek cast, and the Star Wars cast (the original trilogy, of course). I’m going to split it up into three days so it’s not one big long read like the Star Trek letter.

So look forward to that next week.

This week the boys do some bad sound effects, review some fall TV premiers, and make fun of some old letters that Tim wrote.

[CONTENT WARNING] TANcast features mature language and immature hosts but is NOT a representation of the stand up act of Tim Babb. Listener discretion is advised.

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Day 11

Someone posted this little beauty on Facebook today…

I had two thoughts. 1) If women taking their clothes off is what it takes to make all women feel better about their body types…that may be the best “win/win” ever. 2) “Real” women are clearly out of my league.

But then I looked in the comments section and the male comments were divided into one of two groups. The first were obvious trolls/douche bags who kept calling the “real” women fat. They are hopeless pieces of crap who should just die already. The second were more “enlightened” guys who said how gross the Victoria Secret woman were because they were too skinny.

My question is, what makes the second group of guys any better than the first? They’re still hating on women based on their body type. They just picked a different body type. Is that what progress is supposed to be? Why can’t we be glad that there are twice as many women in their underwear in that picture than either of the two by themselves? We should just come together as guys and say, “Hey, these women have taken time out from their busy lives to come together and disrobe. We’re passing around a big ‘thank you’ card and we’re all gonna sign it.
…and don’t think you’re gonna do the ‘proud to be the first to sign in your crack’ joke because you can bet I beat you to it.”

Note to Dove: I have issues about my body type thanks to the media (and reality), but I never, NEVER need to see dudes in their underwear. I’m comfortable thinking of myself as less of a man due to my chicken legs and stomach flab. (Sorry ladies, I’m taken)

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Day 10

I dunno how many of you have heard my comedy CD “3 O’clock Parade” (Which is available now on this very website for the low, low price of “whatever you feel like paying for it.”), but I’m about to set the record straight on one of the jokes. So, if you haven’t, listen to the CD before you read this blog. If you don’t have an hour to spare, just listen to track 3 (“How I Met My Wife.”) Reading any further without hearing the joke will spoil said joke for you.

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Day 9
UPDATE- This blog should have been titled, “iBroke.” It was the blog that ended up on Day 10 of Blog2ober that should have been titled “What a Jerk.” Oops.

I have fallen further and further down the rabbit hole of my past. I decided to take a break for today and blog about something else.

I miss my iPod. I know, “first world problems,” especially since I have an iPhone, but I miss the huge catalog of music that I had access to so effortlessly every day. I mean it’s nice to have new episodes of my podcasts, but earlier today, I wanted to switch over to music and remembered I couldn’t. Then I wanted to listen to some older podcasts I had saved…couldn’t do that either. It’s amazing how much that tiny little box holds.

But 7 years ago, I didn’t have it. I still listened to CDs…sometimes even TAPES! I’m just amazed at how dependent I’ve become on this little piece of technology. Actually “dependent” isn’t the right word. It’s more like “addicted.”

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve gotta go turn a few tricks to buy a new iPod.