It’s fitting that James Doohan, Star Trek’s Scotty, has been laid to rest high above this fragile planet, amongst the stars.

(Actually, “floated” to rest, perhaps?)

I done seen this over on sanity optional and said to myself, I said, “Neat!”

Your Animal Personality

Your Power Animal: Eagle Animal You Were in a Past Life: Whale You are active, a challenger, and optimistic. Hard-working, you are always working towards a set goal.

So, my power animal is an Eagle, and the creatures in the illustration are … fish. How very interesting.

I was once asked, “Where do you think the Ark is?” And I said “In a big secret government warehouse in DC somewheres.” And the person said, “No, not that Ark, the Ark of Moses.” And I said, “I’m sure sooner or later there’ll be an Indiana Jones film about it, and I’ll tell you where it is once I’ve seen it.” Anyhow:

I’m ambivilant about news of Indiana Jones IV - are they actually doing it? I’ll believe it when I see it, but I don’t know that I want to see it. Sometimes, movies are so good they don’t deserve sequels. But then, when they do sequels, and they’re just as good or better, then you get a two decade wait, you’d rather they never bothered making it a tetralogy. Or, for that matter, a prequel trilogy (thanks, George).

But of course, there was more to Indy than those three movies (of which my favorite was Temple, followed by Raiders, with Crusade bringing up the end of the pack): anyone remember the short-lived “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”?

The episodes were framed by Old Indy, generally doing things like bitching about taxi service. The episodes themselves took place in the early 20th Century with young Indy (Sean Patrick Flannery) as everyone’s favorite snake-hating, whip-packin’, fedora -wearin’ archeologist. Hell, even Harrison Ford did a guest-spot on one - if memory serves, he used a flute to cause an avalanche of snow to tumble off a roof and foil his evil pursuers.

The show lasted maybe a season before it got canceled - only Harrison can play Indy, it seems. When they were released on VHS in ‘99 or ‘00, the frame stories (except for the one with Harrison, of course) were cut out and the episodes edited together into “movie length” (hour and a half or so). Frankly, for the DVD release, I hope they give them to us as they were aired - I thought it was charming at the end of the first episode when the weird old creepy guy turns out to be Indy then goes sliding down a bannister to the Raider’s March.

Oh, did I mention a DVD release?

Anyway, according to Rick McCallum, they’re (hopefully) coming out to DVD before Christmas. Rock on, Indy!

(PS - Drunk Indiana Jones - he’s like the regular Indy … only drunker!)

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Hey, somehow I wound up with a whole crate-full of self-sealing stembolts I’m not going to need. If you want ‘em, just leave a comment and we’ll figure something out.