Remembering Edward Woodward
Accomplished actor Edward Woodward, best known for his role on the television series, “The Equalizer” has passed away at the age of 79.
Claudia Christian’s B5 Screenings
Claudia Christian has begun blogging on Babylon 5!
She’s just getting started, diving into viewing Season 1
Win Dinner with Harlan, Help an Author
Jeanne Robinson, co-author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning “Stardance” books (and wife of Spider Robinson) is fighting a rare form of cancer and a number of us are helping raise funds to help her with costs not covered by Canada’s health service.
One of the ways supporters are helping raise funds is through eBay auctions [...]
JMS MIT Lecture back online
The Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT featuring J. Michael Straczynski is back online at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies website!
JMS talks
There is a nice article about the talk jms gave to aspiring writers at Comic Con on July 23rd
His overarching theme: the importance of writing what you deeply care about.
IO9 Article
and here is a video link to his MIT lecture from earlier in the year.
jms MIT lecture (link taken down, sorry It will be available on DVD [...]
The Babylon Podcast: 2009 Parsec Award Finalist
The Babylon Podcast is a finalist for a Parsec Award, in the category of “Best Speculative Fiction Fan Podcast”!
We’re up against The Signal, The 9th, The ScapeCast, and Tuning Into SciFi TV, with the winners to be announced at Dragon*Con.
See the website for a list of all finalists in all categories.
Many thanks to those who [...]
Babylon 5 at Westercon 62
This coming weekend, July 2-5th, Westercon 62 (FiestaCon) is being held in Tempe AZ, at the very nice Tempe Mission Palms Resort and Hotel.
When I saw that they were including a Babylon 5 panel (for the first time in a long time), I knew I needed to be the moderator!
BABYLON 5: THE ENDURING LEGACY: [...]
To Arc or Not to Arc
Jonathan Wright, a blogger at The Guardian, wrote an article last week about “Torchwood: Children of Earth” and it’s 5-part story arc. He laments the fact that all of the scifi he loves has become more heavily laden with story arcs, and at first glance, this fact irks him, and he lays blame at [...]
Dreams with Sharp Teeth now available at iTunes
From the producer of “Grizzly Man,” comes “Dreams with Sharp Teeth” on noted curmudgeon and general genius Harlan Ellison.
Perfectly suited for iPhone viewing, the film was creatively designed in content, framing, text, cinematography and musical score (solo guitar by other genius Richard Thompson) to be enjoyed on this format.
The film itself is composed of brilliant, [...]
JMS MIT Lecture in the News
This is the only news coverage Tim was able to find… anyone else find any mainstream coverage of the lecture?
‘Babylon 5′ creator speaks about failure, future of media at MIT
By Jeanne Amy
GateHouse News Service
Mon May 25, 2009, 10:13 PM EDT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Middle-aged, irreverent, innovative and bold, J. Michael Straczynski is no joke, even though [...]
