This past weekend I was in Las Vegas for yet another Star Trek convention (more on that in another post), which meant another trip to “Antiquities”, the self proclaimed “we have it all” in motion picture, music and entertainment memorabilia.  Indeed, they have it all. From floor to ceiling and on just about every inch of wall space, you can explore the last 70+ years of entertainment treasures, specializing in especially “autographed entertainment”.

There were historical documents, plenty of political signatures, and full cast posters of classic and new motion picture celebrities.  however, it is the music memorabilia that always catches my eye.  There were guitars, posters, albums, sheet music, and many photographs.  at times, I thought I was walking through the halls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Signed albums: Led Zeppelin III and Led Zeppelin “The Song Remains The Same” signed by all 4 members both priced at $3995.; “Ummagumma” by Pink Floyd signed by Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour at $2495.; Pink Floyd “The Wall” for $2995.; and another PF signed by all 4 “Meddle” priced at $2495.00.; but it was a fully signed Pink Floyd’s “Dark Signed of The Moon” for $3995. That was asking the highest PF price; Beatles “Yesterday and Today” signed by 3 of the 4 Beatles (no George) for $5995.; Beatles ’65 signed by all 4 for $14,995.; “Revolver” signed by all 4 of the FAB for $12,995.00; Dirty Work signed by all 5 Rolling Stones for $1695.;  The Who, “Live at Leeds” signed by all 4 at $3995.

There were many guitars as well: Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Van Halen/Sammy, Van Halen/Dave, all @ $4995 and Bod Dylan, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mack/Stevie & Lindsay, The Police and U2 all at $3995.

Now, the staff is indeed both very helpful, informative, and eager to sell stock.  I was at first followed and asked if I could be helped by this charming lady who informed me (rather infactically) that “all our signatures are verified by forensic experts and come with a lifetime guarentee of authenticity.  There are no worries that any of these signatures are not real.” I was then approached by a gentlemen who as well offered me assistance and said that “all prices are 20% off of the sales tag price”, and they can work with me on any budget/any item.

Now, if the fully signed Led Zeppelin guitar was not eye catching enough, the oversized color poster signed by all 4 of these Zepp legends, was very tempting at a very affordable $3995 (seems to be a common price in the store??). Now, I am a “Doubting Thomas” by nature and while I am in Vegas I bet cautiously and spend wisely, in spite of (or because of) all the sin and tempation lurking around every corner of this very expensive town.  I got down on my hands and knees and read the fine print of the poster, as I had never seen the image before.  I was relieved to read that the poster was from a company called “Scorpio Posters Inc”., with a date of 1979 (the year before drummer John Bonham died).  I felt reassured and quite comfortable with the reliablity of this signed item.

The store manager then came over to me and made comment that he has “seen me in the store before” and knew I was more than “just looking”.  The kindness of this man even extended from him offering me paper to continue my note taking, as my scratch paper was a bit small for the amount of inventory I was pricing. I exited the store not purchasing anything this weekend but am still, considering the temptation.  There was one last comment by this manager that indeed steers me towards what will probably and eventual a one day purchase, that I just know I will not be able to pass up.  his comment was “we have everything you could want, and if it is not here in the store, we can get it”.  somehow, as my reply was to him, I bet he can.

Now that winter is officially upon us with snow up and down the country, it’s time to make sure that you have the appropriate clothing for your little boys!

Boys Clothes in Winter: Staying Indoors

Sometimes in winter it can be really cold indoors, no matter what you do to chase it away. Obviously, preventing this requires dressing warmly. For boys, some suggestions for when they’re staying inside include wearing a simple cardigan and jeans. They’re warm enough that there’s no concern about cold, whether at home or at school. At home, wearing appropriate clothing can also save on the heating bill. if a child complains of not being warm enough, use layers, so he’s wearing a shirt or two under the sweater.

Boys Clothing in Winter: Heading Outside

When it’s time to go outside, it’s important to wear slightly more clothing. make sure boys don a winter coat that’s well-lined and warm and doesn’t have any holes. Boots and mittens should go on, too. Don’t forget to make kids wear hats. they might not always be the most fashionable, but more heat escapes from your head than any other part of your body. so while you need to cover other extremities, like your hands and feet, a hat is also important. make sure it covers his ears! other considerations are cleaning up after him! Organic clothing often washes better than normal clothing.

Playing Outside in Winter

Boys clothing for playing outside is different than simply being out-of-doors. Playing in winter involves wading through high piles of snow in the cold. to keep boys from getting sick, make sure they have a good pair of snow pants. if your child will be playing outside: having a snowball fight, building a fort, making a snowman or sledding, make sure to incorporate the layers – both under sweaters and under snow pants. they can wear long johns under jeans and either sweat pants or even pajama pants over jeans (they’re usually looser and have more stretch) beneath the snow pants so they can keep them warmer.

Finding the perfect clothes for the snowy season doesn’t have to be a hassle. make sure they fit and that your child is comfortable indoors. When they head out, make sure your boys can move easily. and when they return, a cup of hot cocoa could be just the thing.

Frugi sell clothing for children, babies and mothers, all made from 100% organic cotton and fair trade.  Organic clothing is kinder to babies’ skins and washes really well.  Frugi also make baby clothing which is large enough to fit over non-disposable nappies.

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The TV theme song may not be the pinnacle of musical achievement, but the art of crafting an opening song is tricky. a theme must set the tone for the series, but also strike a delicate balance of jingle-dom: catchy enough to burrow Pavlovian tendrils deep into viewers’ skulls (case in point: try to read the phrase “Now this is the story all about how” without your subconscious spouting off the rest of how Will Smith’s life got twist-turned upside down), but not so earworm-y that viewers throw a shoe at the TV every time the credits roll. Since a couple of them are in town this weekend, we decided to take a look at five acts who have, for better or worse, penned unforgettable opening numbers.

Primus, South Park

The fact that Trey Parker and Matt Stone were able to nab Les Claypool (playing Tower Theatre with Primus this Saturday) for South Park’s opening theme isn’t too surprising if you consider their career trajectories. Both had shaggy-dog origins—Les sold his car to fund Primus’ first demo tape, South Park started as a student film with a macaroni-art aesthetic—and both got surprisingly popular in the ’90s for their irreverent sensibilities and twisted senses of humor. This might suggest a more glamorous, fated encounter than Matt and Trey looking up the band’s management company on the back of Frizzle Fry and writing them a letter, but sometimes the universe works in boring ways. the two received a call from Les a few weeks later, and the world got the twangy, downright neighborly intro we all know today.

Well, sort of—the first draft turned out highly unsettling, a slower-paced stomp with Les growling and the kids singing like Children of the Corn. not wanting to scare people away from a show that already featured an 8-year-old getting anally probed in its first episode, Matt and Trey sped the song up and told Les to sound less like Tom Waits, and thus a beautiful friendship of scathing animated satire and funky prog-rock was born. Primus later performed “Mephisto and Kevin” for the Chef Aid album, and South Park’s Facebook page was the first to stream Primus’ just-released Green Naugahyde. Les even expanded his cartoon opening act to Robot Chicken, proving his sound is a perfect fit for a wide range of cartoons with gruesome animated violence and toilet humor.

They Might be Giants, Malcolm In the Middle

A show about an awkward adolescent egghead no doubt struck a chord with geek rockers they Might be Giants (at the TLA this Friday), comprised of two guys that don’t give off the impression of having been kings of dodgeball. Well, okay, John and John described writing the show’s intro and first two seasons worth of incidental music as strictly “work for hire,” but they’re still a perfect fit for Malcolm’s offbeat world. “Boss Of Me” has the same obnoxiously defiant quality as the characters on the show, and John Flansburgh’s exhausted sigh of “life is unfair” practically served as a mission statement for the series’ seven seasons. the song even won the band their first Grammy, a feat that unfortunately overshadowed their sterling work on Tiny Toons and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Barenaked Ladies, the big Bang Theory

“a fraction of a second and the elements were made. / the bipeds stood up straight, / the dinosaurs all met their fate.” Sounds pretty heavy—and it might be, if those lyrics weren’t set to the Barenaked Ladies’ inoffensive, Chickadee-China-the-Chinese-Chicken pop and didn’t open a show with the central joke of how hot chicks totally don’t know what Star Trek is. Granted, The big Bang Theory has come a long way from the days when Kaley Cuoco’s characterization could be summed up as “Math is, like, hard and stuff,” but the same maturation can’t be said of the Ladies. like most of their musical output, the show’s opening song straddles the fine line between shamelessly catchy and teeth-grindingly irritating. Co-creator Chuck Lorre is a Barenaked Ladies fan, and his choice of a band all too familiar with spinning lowest-common-denominator entertainment into huge hits is oddly appropriate.

The Abandoned Pools, Clone High

While we’d guess the Abandoned Pools would prefer to be remembered for their body of work rather than a one-season MTV cartoon, is there really anything wrong with having your legacy forever tied to Clone High? the show was short-lived, but its 13 episodes were a hilarious pastiche/parody of the melodrama and sentimentality of an average CW show (back when it was still the WB, of course). plus, it featured the Mahatma Gandhi the world had always suspected was underneath it all—an unapologetic party animal.

The theme, written by Liam Lynch of Sifl & Olly fame, was just part of what made the show great. the grungy hook is undeniably singable, and deftly sets up the premise for newcomers while assuring audiences that high school is as much a “time to laugh and shiver and cry” for clones of dead historical figures as it is for normal teenagers. In addition to the theme, the Abandoned Pools were practically a band-in-residence at Clone High, contributing several songs off their debut, Humanistic, and performing all the incidental music. they even appeared as themselves in the finale at the Clone High prom, right before the entire cast was frozen in a meat locker and the show ended on a permanently unresolved cliffhanger. With the band due to release the new Sublime Currency this year and MTV apparently in the habit of resurrecting its cartoon properties, we’d like to suggest that the time is right for Clone High to finally come off its seven-year “hiatus,” dammit.

Ozzy Osbourne, Dog the Bounty Hunter

In a post-Osbournes world, we shouldn’t be surprised by anything Ozzy Osbourne does. From appearing with Justin Bieber in best buy commercials to having his own Family Smile-Time Variety Hour-style sketch show, we should all just be grateful the Godfather of Heavy Metal is still standing and semi-coherent. even so, his theme to Dog the Bounty Hunter seriously tests our statutes of pop-culture limitations. Lending your voice to the opening of a show about a mullet-sporting, Christ-worshipping paragon of justice and the law? Dog’s trademark ’do is as ridiculous as the hair Black Sabbath sported in the ’70s, but there’s still nothing about this combination that makes sense. Does Ozzy find Dog’s love of Jesus reminiscent of his own devotion to Satan? Is bear mace the only substance capable of causing any sort of sensation in Ozzy’s body these days? whatever the reason, there’s considerably more dignity in shilling cell phones than an irony-less, “I’m the dog, the big bad dog.”

David Croft, who has died aged 89, was a survivor of an almost extinct breed in British television: a comedy producer and writer who did not need a marketing survey to tell him what would make audiences laugh. if he found a comedy idea or script funny, he reckoned that it might well amuse others. The axiom came to seem old-fashioned among television executives hungry for ratings, but during a period of more than 30 years, the shows he and his co-writers created – Dad’s Army, it Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Are You Being Served?, ‘Allo ‘Allo and Hi-de-Hi! – confirmed his view that, for a writer or producer of comedy, it helped to have a sense of humour.

Croft once said with pride that he had never been commissioned to continue an existing comedy series. Specific ideas or scripts were always submitted, so that they could be taken elsewhere if they were not welcomed. The idea of supervised hack work on other people’s ideas was foreign to him, and the result was a string of long-running comedy successes.

Born in Sandbanks, in Poole, Dorset, David was the youngest son of Anne Croft, a former musical comedy star and theatre manager, and an actor, Reginald Sharland. The marriage ended when the boy was nine, after which he took his mother’s name.

Croft had first wandered on to the stage at the age of four, and said later that from then on he never wanted to do anything else. he went to St John’s Wood prep school, north London, and Rugby school, Warwickshire. at the age of 16, he became the BBC’s youngest juvenile lead when he was cast as the hero of the musical Charing Cross Road. Roy Speer, the director in charge of the audition at which Croft presented himself with square-jawed confidence, had not expected the candidate to be so young and cast him with some hesitation.

The second world war fed his taste for the absurd. he was adjudged too old to go into the Home Guard before his call-up, and became an ARP – Air Raid Precautions – warden before the army claimed him. After service in North Africa, he went to India and Singapore as an officer, and rose to the rank of major. on being demobilised in 1947, he worked in repertory, where he met and married his wife, Ann Callender, an actor and later a theatrical agent, with whom he soon had a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Penelope, the first two of his seven children.

Red-haired and dapper, Croft appeared often in West End musical comedies and at the BBC, where he was a singer with the orchestra that provided the backing for many stars in The Billy Cotton Band Show. Writing pantomime scripts for the theatrical producers Howard & Wyndham was followed by a collaboration with his lifelong friend the composer Cyril Ornadel, providing the lyrics for a musical about the record industry commissioned by the impresario Bernard Delfont, and starring the husband-and-wife musical comedy team Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. Croft said of their working regime that it was strictly a nine-to-six job: “None of this experimental waiting for inspiration or sitting up half the night for us.” Showbiz columnists asked if they were the British Rodgers and Hammerstein, and eventually received the definite answer: no.

The arrival of independent television in 1955 proved more promising. Croft became a script editor for Rediffusion, and was then a light entertainment producer for Tyne Tees, writing many jingles. in the late 1960s he was still fascinated by the idea of musical comedy, and turned HG Wells’s novel about a liberated woman, Ann Veronica, into a musical produced by Harry Homer.

But it was not until he teamed up with the writer Jimmy Perry and created the first episodes of Dad’s Army, that joyous look at the British class system and eccentricity through the keyhole of a Home Guard platoon, that he found his niche, as writer, encourager and enabler of television comedy. After the show began in 1968 the first two series were not immediately popular: a viewers’ survey showed that few were positively in favour. Croft, by then a BBC executive, suppressed an internal report, and soldiered on regardless. in 1970, he and Perry won the Writers’ Guild of great Britain award for best British TV script. They co-wrote 81 episodes, which ran until 1977, with a feature-film version in 1971.

The winning duo went on to co-write 56 episodes of it Ain’t Half Hot Mum, the saga of a British army concert party in the tropics (1974-81), 58 episodes of the holiday camp romp Hi-de-Hi (1980-88) and 26 episodes of the stately home farce You Rang, M’Lord? (1988-93).

That was only one of Croft’s co-writing partnerships. he also teamed up with Jeremy Lloyd for 69 episodes of Are You Being Served? (1973-85), the department store series in which John Inman made an impact as the over-solicitous and over-the-top sales assistant. at first, BBC executives were not convinced of its appeal and were fearful of being politically incorrect. “You can’t have the poof,” said Bill Cotton, Billy Cotton’s son and the head of BBC light entertainment, subsequently relenting with: “Oh, get on with it, then!” Croft always disliked the PC straitjacket, especially as his non-discriminatory policy was to send up everybody.

There were also, with Lloyd, the first six of the nine series from 1984 onwards of ‘Allo ‘Allo, managing to quarry comedy from the Nazis and their truculent populace in occupied France during the second world war. Lloyd got the idea late one night, after he and Croft had spent the day vainly trying to bring another idea to fruition. Lloyd telephoned Croft at once. They began working on it the next day. as ever, he even-handedly gave every devil his due. “Our Germans are insensitive, nest-feathering and kinky, the French are devious, nest-feathering and immoral, and the British are real twits,” he explained.

Croft’s working methods varied. for the first series of Dad’s Army, he and Perry wrote two episodes each, turn and turn about. usually he and Lloyd worked closely together on each script. either way, the arrangement depended on trust and his belief in the repertory principle: he always preferred to work with people he knew, believing that a craving for “new faces” was a journalistic rather than artistic preoccupation.

Croft claimed that his comedy harked back to a gentler era: “I write ordinary, non-controversial comedy which gives families a good laugh. They know nobody’s going to say, ‘shag’. if you took all the swearing out of Billy Connolly’s act, what would be left of it?”

He was appointed OBE in 1978. his wife and children survive him.

• David Croft, writer, actor and producer, born 7 September 1922; died 27 September 2011

• David Croft’s website

A former employee of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church wascharged Thursday for allegedly using church funds to pay for gas,groceries, utilities and other personal expenses, according to acomplaint filed in Harris County Court.

Pamela Doran Perkins, 45, of Clear Lake, told investigators thatshe stole more than $22,000 in church funds because “times werehard,” the complaint alleges.

The thefts allegedly occurred between July 9, 2009 and may 23,2011. Perkins had been an employee at the church for 11 years.

Church business administrator Tom Basile told investigators thatPerkins was issued a Wells Fargo credit card while working asassistant director of the church, court records state. An audit wasconducted after Basile noticed several questionable charges on theaccount, he told investigators.

The audit allegedly revealed that $22,316.44 was taken out ofthe account and used for gas, groceries, phone bills, electricbills, medical bills, ATM withdrawals and fast foodrestaurants.

Perkins is charged with felony theft in the 184th DistrictCourt. Bond has been set at $5,000.

Speaking on Gamification in Philadelphia

This Monday October 3rd, I will be participating in a panel on gamification at the Wharton school in Philadelphia.

Gamification: Practical Advice from Game Developers

Monday, October 3, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Philadelphia, PA

Please join us for a networking event and discussion on gamification and game development, co-organized by Prof. Kevin Werbach (Wharton) and Nathan Solomon (Philadelphia Game Lab).

Computer games have long been the benchmark for well-designed, meaningfully quantified interactive user experience. recently the term “gamification” has come into common use for applying gameplay functionality in non-game contexts. Is there more to this trend than hucksters throwing badges and leaderboards onto every website? what really makes games compelling? what can technologists, businesspeople, and game developers learn from each other?

We’ll begin with pizza and informal networking, followed by an overview of the state of gamification and a panel discussion featuring experienced game developers. Meet local entrepreneurs, developers, user experience experts, marketers, and students, and learn more about this emerging area.

Panelists:

Moderator: Chris Grant (Joystiq)

Margaret Wallace (Playmatics)

Ethan Mollick (Wharton Management Dept.)

Eric Goldberg (Crossover Technologies)

Frank Lee (Drexel Game Program)

Attendance is free but space is limited. Register today!

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MELISSA BLOCK, host: Now that fall is officially here, many of us are trying to cool off from a long hot summer. But commentator Andrei Codrescu is just getting warmed up.

ANDREI CODRESCU: It’s been a year like a ride in hell’s own at Disney World. from weather the politics, the world seems bent out of shape. But this may be the result of extensive coverage, rather than an unusual number of disasters.

I watched an episode of “The Hour,” set in the days of the Cold War and remembered just how different things used to be.

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UNIDENITIED MAN: We’re standing in a side street from Trafalgar Square. As you can see the crowd behind me holding up their…

CODRESCU: in this episode of “The Hour,” the London crowds are angrily protesting the invasion of Egypt over the question of the Suez Canal. there are hints of nuclear confrontation and the world is black, white and mostly gray. Our world in contrast is in HD color. Everyone in commercials is young and happy. So-called reality shows feature some frighteningly stupid people. and nobody seems to care enough to protest anything, especially if it involves going outdoors with a sign.

I see the Iraq and Afghanistan carnage on TV but it’s occasional, random; not as horrific as the Vietnam images were. People out of work are home watching TV or looking for a job on their computer. The near collapse of the financial system is just more stuff for politicians to speechify about on TV.

Horrific weather events that include tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, vast forest fires and unheard-of high temperatures are fascinating if you’re not right in them – and unspeakable if you are. But there is always a reporter on the scene getting blown by the wind or choking on ashes, so the TV takes care of that, too.

Once again, I’m not sure if we live in a much less dangerous world than the retro people in “The Hour,” or if our sense of outrage and danger has been somehow diminished by television, happy pills, and the prosperity fumes of the ’90s of the last century.

Our decade reminds me of the 1930s when people still thought that the goodtime ’20s would eventually come back, even if unemployment was rampant, banks are failing, and Hoovervilles are springing up ready for the Army to disperse from horseback.

Are we on the edge of something much worse, just like we were in the ’30s I never experienced? Or in the gray late ’50s, which I did? are we on the cusp of civil unrest or just a new reality show on the telly?

I hope that somebody invents something like LSD quick, so we might tell what’s real and what’s not. it doesn’t help hearing the rising heat of political rhetoric that stops inches short of hate speech and incitement to riot. But that’s on TV, of course, so it doesn’t mean such rhetoric can be more than just another show. Or is it?

BLOCK: Those thoughts from Andrei Codrescu. He’s the author of “Whatever gets you through the Night: A Story of Scheherazade and the Arabian Entertainment.”

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If the students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, then the future looks promising for one group of students.

Four teens from Isaac Bear Early College are taking on climate change in the Cape fear.

It’s not your typical student project, four high school juniors tackling the oceans and climate.

Megan Ennes, an Education Program Specialist with the NC aquarium, says, “None of them are environment majors, none of them are going to be scientist when grow up but this has become a topic that’s very dear to their hearts.”

Ennes interviewed and selected the students to work on a movie about understanding climate change and how our actions can play a huge role.

“I’ve always been interested in the environment and always cared about it,” Isaac Bear student, Jessica Lama, explained, “I wanted other people to learn about it and care about it too, so I thought the best way to start was to teach them, so if they can understand then maybe they will have a passion for it too.”

But it wasn’t just about teaching others, the students also learned quite a bit during the process.

Student Keela Sweeney said, “It seemed like a good way to learn about the issue of climate change and how it affects us, more deeper than just hot in the winter cold in the summer kind of details.”

The 20 minute film is the culmination of nearly a year of work.The group went on a water tour to learn about our ecosystem and ferried over to Bald Head Island to learn about barrier islands and sea level rise. they also learned about endangered species, a topic that gets student Evan Lucas fired up.

“You don’t have to sit around and let species disappear. One goes away a week, when is that going to be something a lot of people care about?” asked Lucas.

Dustin Chambers added, “A lot of people don’t realize small things matter and they can make a difference.”

And teaching people how to make a difference is the purpose of this film.

“Sometimes i felt like people don’t take this seriously and it really frustrates me cause like this is your future, it’s not just for you, its for your grandchildren their grandchildren and so on,” Lucas said.

Even though the film is finished, it’s not the end. This group plans to take what they’ve learned and incorporate it into their everyday lives, hoping you will do the same.

The group also represented our state at the 3rd Student Summit on the oceans and coasts in Washington D.C., where they showed clips of their video. If you want to check out the entire movie, “We Sea Change”, it premieres Wwednesday night at the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher.

It’s free and starts at 6:30 p.m.