My Frakkin’ Goth Night – Battlestar Galactica at a Goth Club

Episode 6: Spectre of the Gun – Hunting, Gathering, and Reading

“Rise ahnd shine! Rise…AHND…shine!” I woke every school morning to my mom’s southern voice abrasively carrying through the house. I dealt with it by imagining her as a Pterodactyl, and I’d mimic her catchphrases with dinosaur screeches as I flapped my arms and ran around the house like a scene in a Ray Harryhausen film.Continue reading “Episode 6: Spectre of the Gun – Hunting, Gathering, and Reading”

Episode 4: Amok Time – Triggering my Trekkie Sleeper Cell

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” – Spock in Amok Time. In June of 2001, I lived in a loft space in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Bushwick hadn’t yet become the art and fashionContinue reading “Episode 4: Amok Time – Triggering my Trekkie Sleeper Cell”

Episode 3: The Space Seed – Uncharted Paths Away From Home

“It is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” Captain Kirk quoting Milton’s Paradise Lost. The opening phrase: “Space, the final frontier,” introduced me to the mission of the starship Enterprise, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before. This phrase,Continue reading “Episode 3: The Space Seed – Uncharted Paths Away From Home”