Alex99a Chapter Three

Welcome to the Alex99a blog family! Alex99a "Chapter Three" is all about entertainment. Movies, TV, music, classic films and celebrities, Star Trek, Doctor Who, science fiction, it's all here. Also you'll find airplanes, spaceflight, computers, technology and pretty much anything else I might be interested in. On Alex99a "The Second One" at https://alex99a.tumblr.com/ there's The Far Side, Peanuts, art, nature, memes and other clean stuff for the whole family. Finally, "Things I Like" at https://thingsilikealex99a.tumblr.com/ features tasteful photos and pinups of pretty ladies from days past... Bettie Page and Diane Webber and Bunny Yeager and many others, under the tag of #My Favorite Ladies and the Mature Community Label. Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy your stay and I hope you'll visit all three!

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Space Ladies !!!

Carrie Fisher shot by Brian Griffin on the set of Return Of The Jedi, 1982.

I like the boots.

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David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell To Earth"

He is SO going to hurl...

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Space Ladies !!!

Catherine Schell in a wardrobe test for the character Servant of the Guardian for Space:1999 S1E11 "Guardian Of Piri".

Her performance in this episode led to her being cast as the shapeshifting alien Maya that joined the Moonbase Alpha crew for the second season.

As I've recounted before, being something of a diva series co-lead Barbara Bain feared that fans would think that younger Catherine was prettier than she was. Bain insisted on a clause in Schell's contract stipulating that, should she join the cast as a regular, she was not to appear on-screen without the heavy alien "Maya" makeup.

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Star Trek History... sort of.

Right after Star Trek ended, Leonard Nimoy joined the cast of Mission Impossible where he played the character of Paris, master of disguises, following on from the departed Martin Landau. he stayed two seasons before becoming bored with the part.

It was a pretty sweet deal for Leonard at the time. Right from one gig to another, on the same lot and no heavy make-up every day. He got his normal haircut back as well.

Lee Meriwether, shown here with Nimoy, also appeared on Mission for several episodes.

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EJECT EJECT EJECT !!!

Like many modern aircraft, the F/A-18 has small solid rocket motors mounted on the canopy framework. These fire after the canopy separates from the airframe, pushing it well clear of the aircraft so the pilot in his ejection seat doesn't hit it on the way out.

Too bad the F-14 didn't have these, they would have saved poor Goose.

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Star Trek history...

That 2nd A/C looks totally excited to be there.

Production shot for S1E23 "A Taste Of Armageddon", which aired on 2/23/67. I can't read the date on the slate, but the episode was filmed between December 1966 and January 1967.

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Answer me this, if you can.

Everything on the "ThingsILikeAlex99A" blog gets the mature label put on it. Everything, even if the material itself is totally family-friendly. I made the decision to do that when I started the blog. Even tho nothing I post there is all that explicit, I'd rather err on the side of safety to keep material that young persons should not view out of their hands.

Why then, when I see posts from this blog in my timeline, do they have THIS on them, nearly every time...

Tumblr, you didn't have to review ANYTHING. There WAS a "mature" content label on that post when I made it, I SPECIFICALLY put it on. I always do. WHY do you keep hitting me with these insulting "we reviewed your post" notices? I know the rules, and I play by them.

I also resent you putting a locked notice on my posts that I cannot change.

If the board system is smart enough to detect material that might be mature in nature, why is it too stupid to look and see if there is already a "mature" label on it?

Please fix this.

(ps, no "mature" label on this as I want everyone to see it to raise awareness of the issue)

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I am the morning DJ at WXYZ...

Apologies to Harry Chapin, and the actual callsign is redacted for my privacy.

I spent fifteen years in this room...

Well, one almost exactly like it down to almost the last detail.

I was the morning DJ at a small east coast "graveyard" AM station back from the early seventies to the late eighties. Actually, at various times I was the morning DJ, the afternoon drive-time DJ, the evening DJ, the late-night DJ, the Saturday afternoon DJ, the Saturday morning DJ, and the Sunday morning DJ. When you worked at one of these small stations, before long you did everything.

I played records, read the news, made commercials, did interviews, did sports broadcasts, read the funeral notices, worked on equipment, swept the floors... you name it, I did it.

The console is a mono 8-channel Gates "Gatesway" board, two transcription turntables, four "Tapecaster" cart decks (ours were stacked vertically to the left of the board), racks and racks of Fidelipac tape carts with commercials, station IDs, jingles, public-service announcements, but no music. We played right from the vinyl. Endless cabinets in the back full of LP records and singles. I swear, some of them went back to the forties. A big microphone dangled in front of my face and I stared through the soundproof window into the studio next door. Also the same black phone and the ever-present empty soda bottles from the machine in the lobby.

I won't make any WKRP In Cincinnati comparisons except to say that show hit it pretty close to the mark in every way.

I don't know if I'd want to do it again. The hours were long (especially night shifts with nobody else around), the pay was low and it was a pretty dead-end job.

Still, it's a fond memory. I doubt anyone will find this very interesting. I just came across the photo and wanted to reminisce.

"You're listening to 1240 radio WXYZ. It's six o'clock, the news is next..."

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A Star Trek moment...

The ready room was being renovated.

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Star Wars History...

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How we saw it...

How it was filmed.

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Da da da da da da da da da...BATMAN!

I tried a couple of times to build a model of the Batmobile, but I could never get the red pin-stripes right.

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A Star Trek moment...

"I prefer a certain formality on the bridge. I'd appreciate it if you wore a standard uniform when on duty".

Kirk beat Jellico to the punch by 90 years.

Note the rough back to Spock's side console. That part never showed up in filming so there was no need to finish it.

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Phantom Friday...

...is checking in...

...to let you know it hasn't forgotten you.

Vandy-5 The White Bunny.

In May 1977 VX-4 F-4J Phantom BuNo 158350, callsign Vandy 5, was painted in an experimental all-over white color scheme with low-visibility insignia and Bunny on the tail.

I'd love to have a photo of her with her evil twin Vandy 1.

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Phantom Friday will return... one day.

Until then.

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Phantom Phorever

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I was thinking "cool bike" but then they lost me with the lace frill...

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Space Ladies !!!

Carrie Fisher calls out an unauthorized photographer on the Sail Barge Battle set for Star Wars Episode Vi: Return Of The Jedi in Buttercup Valley in the Imperial Sand Dunes in California.

I like Marks robe.

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These are excellent pics, but there's a problem. They aren't real.

Shatner stands casually off to the side of the set watching a scene. He has his hand in his pocket. Original Series costumes didn't have pockets. AI.

Takei and Koenig take a moment while the second assistant camera prepares to clap the scene. Problems, the text on the slate is gibberish, smoke rises from the slate and I don't even know who that is in the background. More AI.

It's too bad, they would have been good pics had they been real. Instead, just AI slop.

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Carrie Fisher had a bit of a love/hate relationship with her slave girl costume from Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of the Jedi.

The hero version she wore in the throne room scene wasn't real metal, but was a stiff urethane resin that did NOT move. Carrie had to sit carefully to avoid creases in her skin and to "keep everything in place".

The costume worn in the sail barge battle was actually made of rubber and had some give in it to allow for her movements.

Still she wasn't a fan of either version. In a 2016 interview on NPR "Fresh Air", she remarked “It wasn’t my choice. When [director George Lucas] showed me the outfit, I thought he was kidding, and it made me very nervous... it wasn't a style choice I would have made".

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