Alan Irwin’s Blog

OH MY GOD!
Dark? Depressing? Sure.
Distrubing? Absolutely.
Political? Not even subtle!
The best hour and a half of science fiction video ever? Without a doubt!
I think it took a couple of days just for me to be able to write out my thoughts, and it still feels like a lot of fanboy “Oooooh! Ahhhhh! Wow! Whoa!”.
I’m not even [...]

Harriet was out of town this weekend (someday I’ll write about “The Elves”), and so I decided to get caught up on a lot of videos. Most important was getting through the typical three Netflix DVDs which are kept sitting around for weeks.
I chose to watch some old Dr. Who episodes from 1964! One DVD [...]

One of the things that most folks don’t know about me is that I collect bookmarks. It’s been fairly casual over the years, but I’ve accumulated quite a collection, running the gamut from free, promotional paper bookmarks to silver bookmarks I’ve found in antique stores.
Recently, I’ve decided that it was time to organize this random [...]

Improv is one of my major avocations. I started taking classes in 1989, and ultimately took over as instructor of the workshop sometime around 1995. That workshop has now evolved into the Santa Barbara Improv Workshop and continues to conduct a class on Wednesday nights.
I’m the primary instructor at the workshop and also a member [...]