Star Trek The Experience Lives

There have been rumors that Star Trek The Experience will live on in Las Vegas and today I read a pretty cool article giving more details about the new Experience. It's now going to be located downtown at Neonopolis. They say parts of it will be open by May for the new movie so all we can do is wait and see. It very exciting news and I hope everything pans out.

Podcasting and Editing BTS

This morning I did my podcast with Rick and Jen. I don't think I have mentioned my podcast before. I've been doing a podcast called The Ready Room for the Treks in sci fi forums where I run a rpg (role playing game). I've been doing it once a week for the past 40 weeks. So I did another episode of that then I started to edit one of the BTS feature that is due December 1st.

Rico's Birthday

Happy Birthday to one of the coolest podcasters out there. I met Rico through his podcast Treks in Sci Fi and his podcast forums. Thanks Rico for the years of entertainment.

Another Great Clone Wars

Once again I'm blogging about my love for the new Clone Wars cartoon series. This episode was set around one of my favorite characters R2D2. It was a fun roller costar ride and I literally yell "No" when it ended with a To Be Continued. This series continue to amaze me with their stories and I look forward to new episodes every week.

Prop 8

Well I woke up this morning and jumped on my computer to see if a miracle had happened.. but atlas Prop 8 passed 52% to 48% Marriage in California is now defined as one man and one woman which means gay marriages are banned. I have to say that I'm not surprised; in recent weeks the trend was leaning for it to pass. I really don't know why people care if gay people marry or not, we're not hurting anyone. We want to be treated like human being and not second-class citizens. Of course protest have been popping up all over the place.. this issue is far from over.

They may have won this battle but the war is just beginning.

Prop 8

I don't know even what to say.. this night started off so great with president elect Obama. Then the local news comes on and we find out that Prop 8 is winning the Ban on gay marriage is going to pass. As of right now it's too close to call as there are still a few million votes to count. But things aren't looking so good. I'm going to bed and hope things look better tomorrow when I get up.

President Barack Obama

Today history has been made. The United States of America elected its first African American President Mister Barack Obama.

I watched the polls all day today and at about 4pm the results started to come in. The later it got the better it looked for Obama. By the time I got home from work Obama had won Ohio and New Mexico who traditionally voted Republican. Harry and I sat there all night watching the results until 8pm moments after the CA polls closed the Networks called the election for Barack Obama. Harry punches the air and yelled. I was speechless and had tears in my eyes.

Soon after McCain came out and gave his concession speech, which was very gracious. I have nothing against McCain, it's the people he surrounds himself with that I don't like. And about a half hour later Obama came out and gave his speech and again I cried.

People always comment about JFK and how they felt hearing him speak and I finally know how they feel. When Obama speaks my heart swells. He brings hope and change and the outlook that things will be better. It might not happen in the four years of his presidency but it will happen. Na sayers have asked me why I believe in him as he hasn't done much politically and I just tell them ... Obama brings hope.. and hope brings change.

Election Day

Today is Election Day... this is probably the most important election that I have voted in since I started voting. I'm a Democrat and a gay man so I will be voting for Barack Obama as our next president. I feel he is the best man of the job. Bush has torn this country apart and Obama can put it back together.

There are also several propositions on the ballot, the biggest one for me is prop 8 the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It looked like it my go down in defeat but the past few weeks tides have been changing.. I'm worried.

New Gig

Today I start my new job. I'll be Post Production Supervisor on the Discovery channel show Deadliest Catch. This is the fifth season. It's going to be a tough show as there is a lot of footage and very little time to get it in the system and cut. I'm the only one working in the office this week. But soon the post staff will be six editors, three assistant editors and seven loggers.

A cool thing about this job is it should run till July/August.

Another Guild Shoot

Today was another guild shoot.. seems like things are slowing down now. We shot at Felicia's house with Tink, Clara and Bladzz. It was another 12 hour shoot day. I got more interviews for my BTS extras and they asked to me be an extra in one of the scenes, which is always fun.

I saw the first three episodes of the second season and they are fantastic. This second season is shaping up to be 100 times better then the first and that's saying alot since the first season is AWESOME. Anyways another fun day on the set of The Guild.