02 | October | 2014 | "DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!"

(Thanks, Arse!)

Another busy day? Sure, why not? I need to run out soon to an event and have another one this evening to attend, so posts today are pretty much ending here unless I get back in time to pop something in before pumpkin hour. I have a bunch of stuff to review, but I need time to do that and more time to download a few games and assorted media for them. Where’s my helper monkey at? I had a helper koala, but that only lasted until I found out they spend about 18 to 22 hours a day SLEEPING and the rest eating, pooping and making little koalas. I can’t supports that lifestyle at all, even if I only had to pay that lazy git in eucalyptus leaves and the occasional piece of fruit or vegetable. Darn thing couldn’t type either. Actually, this month is nuts for me because I have a bunch of invites to things to respond to and an calendar that needs more days or more hours on some days because of competing events and travel time between them. Eh, I’ll figure it out.

Anyway, I need to run but I’ll be back in a few hours. I might be a tiny bit intoxicated, as that later event seems to involve free cocktails and one can’t be rude and refuse the first one. It’ll be a teetotal of one for me, as I’m not fond of my liver punching me in the kidneys or waking up on the floor and wondering which floor I’m waking up on. Not that that’s actually happened, folks… well, okay, ONCE. But that was a long time ago and hasn’t happened since. It does make for a really funny story, but you’ll have to pay me to tell it, though. Okay, I’m off to the races… well, once I finish these sandwiches…

55 years ago to-day, The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS and while it only ran for five years (1959-1964), it’s still one of the most memorable anthology series to this day. There was a revival in the 80’s that ran from 1985-1989, and while it wasn’t as great as the original series, there were a number of excellent episodes in that reboot that come to mind as worth tracking down. According to USA Today, the fine folks at Image Entertainment have decided to collect every episode from both series along with a wealth of special features and is going to release a very limited edition 41 DVD set called The Twilight Zone: The 5th Dimension on November 11, 2014.

Only 7500 of these must-have sets will be made and while that $349.98 price tag may seem steep to some of you who think anything old and in black and white isn’t worth that kind of money, old fogeys like me who grew up in the Zone are breaking out our knives and are getting ready to fight it out with other fans and collectors just to get our grubby mitts on this collection. I’d imagine the chances of Image shooting one of these over for review are absolute zero, I’d trade one of Alicia’s robot arms (from The Lonely), a bar of gold (from The Rip Van Winkle Caper), a family-sized can of chicken (from Two) or a Kanamit cookbook (from To Serve Man) for one of those babies. Okay, all I REA::Y have is an old tin can here, but I hear it’s quite magical once kicked around a few times…