Via Look at His Butt! (a very funny but generally NSFW blog dedicated to The Shatner) comes the news that LAist has photos of the writer’s strike in LA, where lots of folks associated from Trek were walking the line. You’ll see lots of familiar faces there, including a certain Man Crush…
About Bad Astronomy
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
Contact me: The Bad Astronomer "at" gmail "dot" com
Bad Astronomy is a Wikio Top Blog! Clearly, Wikio has excellent taste. 
Bad Astronomy was chosen as one of Time.com's Best Blogs of 2009. Subscribe to BA using an RSS Feed
Death from the Skies!
Order a copy of Death from the Skies! from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Borders.
"If things worked the way I wanted them to, any reporter about to do another 'sensational' story on deadly meteors would consult this volume, and bang! common sense would find its way into the news. How strange would that world be?"
-- Adam Savage, Mythbusters"Reading this book is like getting punched in the face by Carl Sagan. Frightening, but oddly exhilarating."
-- Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot UprisingSocial/Networking/Cool Stuff
DISCOVERmagazine.com: Latest Articles on Space- How to Become a Backyard Galileo (Minus the Church Trouble)
- Discover Interview: Space Is Getting Bigger, and It's Getting Bigger Faster
- Visual Science: The New View From Space
- Top 100 Stories of 2009: #50: Magnetic Mysteries of Sunspots Decoded
- Top 100 Stories of 2009: #2: NASA Braces for Course Correction
- DISCOVER Blogs: The Loom
December 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Who’s the older fellow in the shot under Spiner and above the one with the sign about not “killing redshirts”? I don’t recognize him, and for some reason, I think I should.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Oh. Harlan Ellison. Never mind. I should have checked the image properties first.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Without writers we would (obviously) have no science fiction. It’s a pain to wait extra months for Battlestar Galactica etc. but I hope the writers battle through and win. I’m happy to see them fight for what they deserve in royalties.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
FYI, John Scalzi has a post up featuring Wil Wheaton here:
A Month of Writers, Day Ten: Wil Wheaton
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=200
December 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Unfortunately if the strike goes any longer, Battlestar won’t be coming back, as NBC, parent company of Sci-Fi channel, is getting ready to ax it.
December 12th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Moose says: “Who’s the older fellow in the shot under Spiner and above the one with the sign about not “killing redshirts”? I don’t recognize him, and for some reason, I think I should.”
Harlon Ellison?
- Jack
December 13th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Looks like your “man-crush” needs to hit the gym…
December 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am
[...] Trekkers strike! By The Bad Astronomer (a very funny but generally NSFW blog dedicated to The Shatner) comes the news that LAist has photos of the writer’s strike in LA, where lots of folks associated from Trek were walking the line. You’ll see lots of familiar faces there, … Bad Astronomy Blog – http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog [...]
December 14th, 2007 at 5:35 am
They are just waiting for scote to beem em up but hes busy dealing with tribles and kilngons