Welcome! My name is Buzz, and I've established this blog as a means to comment on all things Geek, as they strike my fancy, annoy me, confuse me amaze me, or make me wonder about things. I expect the subjects to bounce around a lot, from history, to movies, to fantasy and Sci-Fi, to pretty much anything in the world of Geekdom. Opinions are my own, but I'm always happy to hear others' opinions. A little about myself: I was born a poor black child... No, scratch that. Middle Class Irish Catholic, actually. I figured out early on, that I didn't quite fit in with a lot of my classmates, and even though I sometimes tried, I never quite got the hang of it. I was bullied, as most of us have been, and it didn't help going through Junior High School with the nickname "Buzz", even though I got it the same was Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, did: from older sisters who pronounced "brother" as "Buzzer". Heck, even my Grandmothers called me Buzz, Buzzy, Buzzer, or variations thereof. I started memorizing lines from movies at about 11 or so, which is when I began to memorize Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I had half that movie memorized about 3 years before I ever saw it! I was just beginning to develop an interest in Star Trek when I was 12, when I began to see ads and articles about a new Sci-Fi movie that was about to come out: it had shiny robots, spaceships, and a huge villain in black, with a red laser sword! I was hooked, even though I had almost no idea what the movie was about. FINALLY, on August 20, 1977, Dad took my sisters and me to see Star Wars, and I was so blown away, when I got home, I briefly mistook my dog for Chewbacca! I've heard people say a movie "changed their life", and I used to think that sounded a bit sketchy, but Star Wars diverted me down a path I don't imagine I would have followed, without it. I'll get back to that, later. When I was in High School, we weren't called "Geeks". Those were people who bit the heads off chickens, and ate live cockroaches in Sideshows. We were "Nerds", or maybe "Dorks". Either way, we were the kids who didn't fit in, and who didn't get invited to parties. We were Chess Club, AV Club, Theatre Club, School Chorus, and Marching Band. Back then, Apple was a fruit, IBM made typewriters and adding machines, and a tiny calculator was 6 inches wide and had a roll of paper on the back. SOME people had phones with buttons, but nobody had one you could take in your car. There were 4 Doctors, One Star Trek series, no HBO or MTV, to say nothing of any general awareness that a computer in one city could communicate with a computer in another city. Wil Wheaton was in diapers, Johnny Depp was a kid on a cop show, Will Smith was a high-school kid in Philly, and, as far as we knew, George Takei was both very straight, and straight-laced. From the moment I saw Star Wars, I knew I wanted to work in Film. It's the only field I've ever TRULY wanted to work in, and I have done it. I have worked on dozens, maybe hundreds of Feature Films, TV shows, documentaries, commercials, print ads, theatre plays, etc., but you wouldn't know my face, because I rarely appear in front of the camera. Most of my work has been making things for movies, from monsters to M*A*S*H stills. I love movies, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, History, etc., and while I'm not into ALL things Geeky, (I am a drowning novice, when it comes to computers)I can appreciate how much some people love them. I love the fact that we Geeks are no longer relegated to the shoulders of the road of life, but I still vividly remember when we were simply the people who didn't belong.