19 years ago today, I started this blog. It can now legally drink in New Brunswick. That's 11,128 posts including this one, and if you've been reading for any length of time, I thank you for your continued patronage. I realize that this is a dying form, and that even audio podcasts, which seemed to replace blogging with a lot of my particular corner of the Internet, is being replaced by video podcasts and streaming. So your presence is doubly appreciated.
Year 19 Highlights
-If you've been following the World Cinema Project I started in February - trying to watch one film (or at least, short) from every country and territory on the Letterboxd map - is on track to be finished before the end of the year (if just). I kept finding small islands with one or two films to their names and finding I wasn't so close to the end after all. I promise a wrap-up post at the end to talk about the challenges I encountered trying to complete my voyage, but also expound on my best discoveries.
-Star Trek and Doctor Who coverage has continued, extending the latter with all those shorts I never covered. The War Between Land and Sea will be covered as well, but when I'm done with these drips and drabs. The UNIT mini-series has already started on BBC iPlayer, but is only set to hit Disney+ in 2026, if I understand it correctly. So we'll give potential audiences a bit of space.
-As promised last year, I crafted a few more Torg Eternity products (available on DrivethruRPG): The White Zone (detailing Arctic Canada's Living Land patch), a funky Melodrama deck, Political Scales (an adventure set during a municipal election), and Olympos (a mini-sourcebook and relevant cosm cards for the reality based on Greek myths that gave the setting its Amazon Island). On the Doctor Who RPG front, while working on a Time War sourcebook that completes the 8th Doctor history and gets into the War Doctor stuff, we also managed to put out a 2025 Addendum to the 6th Doctor adventures, and parallel to this, my partner in crime laid out an Expanded Universe Traits Book collecting all the additions we made to the game.
-At some point during the year, I was given access to quality templates for Star Trek Collectible Card Game cards - which you know I'm into because of my updated Rolodex (i.e. What a Card) feature every Friday - and I decided to try my hand at crafting graphic versions of my old AtoZ dream cards (it's Atoz, as in Mr. Atoz from "All Our Yesterdays", but A to Z, because it's one card per entry in the Star Trek Encyclopedia). After hundreds of cards/dozens of posts, I felt like I was too far ahead, so I spun the posts off onto their own blog, which has daily posts featuring 5 entries each. And because I never finished the whole Encyclopedia (abandoned it mid-M), I've also undertaken to create completely new cards to fix the "Broken Links". What can I say, it relaxes me.
-On the podcasting front, I've taken my foot off the pedal and allowed myself a break once or even twice a month. I finished Hyperion to a Satyr's original mission, and am now doing special shows covering OTHER adaptations of Hamlet. And I've re-started Who's Editing?, tackling the Who's Who Updates. But generally, my focus has been on open-ended "indexing" shows like FW Team-Up and OHOTMU or NOT?
So, what's next?
The Doctor Who reviews will run out soon and for a long time, and Star Trek is suffering breaks as well, so I'll have to rethink my day-to-day strategy. There are plenty of "labels" I may want to return to - the Task Force X Files, reviews of new Number Ones (since I've been getting back into comics more), perhaps some new full series reviews (my new Man from UNCLE boxed set - a show I've never watched - is calling to me). But assuredly, we'll continue our current missions - One Panel, What a Card, Who's This? (we're about to hit the letter "J"), and This Week in Geek's capsule reviews aren't going anywhere.
So if you've been hanging around, please keep doing so. Drop a comment once in a while, that's fuel for someone like me. See you tomorrow, as usual...
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