YouTuuba: A Walk Through the original series Star Trek Set Tour

 

[VIDEO] Don't let the date you see to this fool you. This tour occurred in 2018 as part of YouTuuba's Train Odysseys remember those?

Anyway he's in Ticonderoga, New York to go on a tour of the original series Star Trek sets. We see him drive to a building and then a slideshow which he narrates on what he sees during this tour. It's very cool that he had a chance to sit in Capt. Kirk's chair.

This exhibit is actually located in Ticonderoga, N.Y. and you can learn more about this at startrektour.com. This is one place I would like to visit.

Oh and I didn't know this but according to that website this exhibit was created by James Cawley who played Capt. James T. Kirk in fan produced videos that were designed as a continuation of the original Star Trek. According to this Cawley's wiki page the sets here were actually seen on an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise called "In a Mirror, Darkly"

Two other Movie Cabinet posts published here

When I first published this review of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Roger Ebert hadn't passed away although his longtime partner on TV Gene Siskel had by the time I shared that video. Ebert passed away after a very debilitating illness in 2013 his face unfortunately forever disfigured still had a friendly and approachable personality. They both loved this animated Batman film released in 1993.

• Siskel & Ebert Review Batman Mask of The Phantasm

Also there's this old long ago newsreel from Paramount News about the life of one Huey Long from Louisiana. He was a populist not much different than a Bernie Sanders or a Donald Trump although ideologically he probably was closer to a Bernie Sanders. He was a very powerful and popular Governor of Louisiana and was elected to the U.S. Senator. He developed a very powerful machine that at the time of his assassination in Louisiana he was still largely in control of. 

• Newsreel: Sen. Huey Long

The Movie Cabinet

 

Do any of you remember The Movie Cabinet? It was a blog I had long stopped publishing back in 2009, I've uploaded the archives here and if you click in the archives hierarchy in the sidebar you will see the first three movies I reviewed there.

You might have seen some of those movies

• The American President
• Boyz N the Hood
• Mississippi Burning

What other old movies will you see discussed here. Alas I will keep then as archived from when I posted them originally, however, I promise to share with you all those posts once I've done editing and proofreading them.

A lot of them have missing images or since deleted video previews, etc. Got to work on them a bit.

Either way what I wrote there is what you will also see here at "the Beta"

Enjoy! 

Mid-Atlantic Gateway

 Well since this was really ahead of my time and only got some inkling of this through the internet, it's great to see the Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling TV get its due especially for wrestling fans through the MidAtlanticGateway.com. You may have seen such wrestlers as Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, and others on this program that aired in the Carolinas.

I feel as if I seen this site before in a different iteration in the past. Either way great to see it's still going strong and you can catch the old episodes of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling on the WWE Network. Although the theme has been overdubbed on the network - doggone corporate concerns over licensing - you can check out the original open to the program [VIDEO]

I do have some sad news from this week, the promoters of the aforementioned Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling a man by the name of Jim Crockett who owned Jim Crockett Promotions passed away during the week. I had just became aware of an interview which one has to purchase that Crockett had with one Conrad Thompson. Certainly it's one of those shoot style interviews and it would be cool to watch a promoter who tried to go toe-to-toe with Vince McMahon during the initial pro-wrestling boom of the 1980s.

However by 1989 or so Crockett had sold JCP to Turner Broadcasting and thus programs such as Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling had been folded into the new entity known as World Championship Wrestling.

Grand Canyon 2016

 

[VIDEO] As we go through the cold and snowy winter in Chicago which we seem to be experiencing a thaw, let's take a look back to a summer time visit to the Grand Canyon, Arizona back in July 2016. 

We took a one-way trip to the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas via a company Grand Canyon Tours who allowed us a one-way trip there My party left from the Grand Canyon to Flagstaff, Arizona via a shuttle to wait for the Southwest Chief back to Chicago.

Feel free to subscribe to lbj79us or to Levois J - which is at 67 subscribers. I should add YouTube buttons for both of those channels in the future. Need a real plan though one for vacations the other for something else.

Wrestletalk: 10 Worst Mistakes WWE Made With Roman Reigns

 

[VIDEO] I have to admit how much I've enjoyed watching the development of Roman Reigns as the "Tribal Chief" or the "Head of the Table". A man who will do anything to stay at the top even bowl through his family although his cousins mainly Jey Uso are with him. And the promos, light years different from when he was the babyface being pushed down the throats of the WWE Universe.

As a villain as a Tribal Chief his promos have been much better. The way he dressed down his fellow world champion Drew McIntyre before Survivor Series and especially the way he dresses down Kevin Owens or anyone else who goes up against him. Very heelish, very much delivered the message of what motivates the Tribal Chief. He will call you out for disrespecting him and his family.

This video shows how WWE got Roman Reigns wrong until now. I didn't know WWE creative had him wear blue contacts and I don't think they mentioned some of his odd promos as a babyface having him recite lines from Loony Tunes. It seems in the beginning they pushed his character all wrong and found a winner with him as a heel.

Adam Blampied gives us his hilarious take on what WWE does wrong and let's us know to from this point forward follow him on his YouTube channel partsFUNknown.

#StarTrek: Starship Diorama With Realistic Phaser Effect

 

[VIDEO] I had to watch this creative project involved Star Trek models the USS Enterprise or a Constitution class Federation starship firing phasers and damaging a Klingon battlecruiser. The creativity of this young man to get the models just right and the electrical work. To make it look so real though humanity has yet to build starships and so far no indications of a Klingon civilization in real life 😜