Show #154 - Feb 7

Episode 154 on MP3

Presents for Lene!
Bill is touring!
Trek crap: Star Trek mailbox and Keychain
"My William Shatner Xmas Carol"
Crossover Trek stuff (Matt Smith on Graham Norton, Monkees/Trek)

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Is Bill Coming to Your Town?

The Butt Girls have 2nd row seats in Chicago on March 16. We will be having a Very! Special! ... SHATMOY!

Tour dates posted here.

IMPORTANT: Check the website of your local venue. Even though it said tickets go on sale Feb. 3, Chicago has an American Express presale. The front row is already sold out. YIKES!

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I guess today is Star Trek Mashup Day

Total Film shows us the 50 Worst Examples of Harry Potter fan art.

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Not What You Think

No, it's not an online and strangely stiff captain propositioning an Orion Slave. It's the online Trek version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"!

It's only available outside the U.S. but that's OK because we have PLENTY of LISTENERS All! Around! ... the GLOBE!

Andthey'llgivethisashotandreviewitforus.

Right? 

You have your orders.

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Bill on Broadway: The Shilling!

Our man is lookin' good!@





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The Death of the Negotiator

Priceline is killing off the Negotiator as part of a rebranding. No word on Bill continuing as their spokesperson.

But the commercial is a hoot!

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Show #153 - Jan 17

Episode 153 on MP3

Bill woos an Australian weather girl!
Dueling BAMFs!
Futurama and why we love Zap Brannigan
Weird or What?
Bill in Australia!
Bill on Piers Morgan (looking very good)

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Bill Always Welcomes the Chance to "Go Native"

(Not to mention "going native" on Natalie Wood.)

From Movie Posters From an Alternate Universe

And there's this analysis of such a movie from The Mary Sue:

"I’ll say right now that I would totally watch a badly cut together remake of Avatar that uses color-shifted clips from Star Trek, West Side Story, and The Longest Day, and laugh and laugh. This poster, like those that come after it, cut right to the heart of a cinematic time period and the taste of Hollywood at the time, to point out that if this story had shown up in that era, William Shatner would totally have gotten his way into a blue girl’s pants, and no better blue girl than the one who Hollywood already considered to be an virginal all-American sweetheart capable of passing for an ethnicity she clearly was not."

Word.

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Gee, how did this end up under my pillow?

Thanks, Iddy!

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Gee, how did this end up on my desktop?

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Today's Giggle

From screencrave's Top 10 Most Berserk Computers in Film, coming in at #3:

"V’ger [...] decided to return to Earth to find its creator, which V’ger assumes is God.  Instead, V’ger finds William Shatner’s hairpiece and Leonard Nimoy’s fake ears and decides to wipe out the Earth in a rage.  All of which is yet another reason why we probably shouldn’t let our PCs get too religious, apparently."

Amen to that.

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Wooing the Trekkie Vote?

This is supposed to be a Kirk Cookie Jar but this Butt Girl thinks it looks like Mitt Romney in a captain's shirt.

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Bill's Signature Analyzed!

Kathi McKnight, a handwriting analyst, got Bill's autograph and posted her thoughts here.

"What an incredible visionary. The upper loops, (when properly placed!) have to do with the ability to visualize into the future, all the things we cannot see, touch or feel. Sounds pretty trekkie-like doesn't it!!"

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Direct from the Mirror Universe! And on sale!!

Get a Star Trek cover for your iPhone 4. Choose from the uber-geeky Command, Science, Engineering or Mirror Universe models!
Forget about Santa, the folks at Think Geek are cranking my Christmas engine!

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Show SciFi Theatre Special Edition!

Episode SciFi Theatre on MP3

In this special holiday show, JK reviews A Klingon Christmas Carol, playing at the Greenhouse Theatre Center in Chicago through the end of December. It's great! Go see it!

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Comanche Blanco Numero de Muerto

White Comanche (1968)- William Shatner KillCount from Arnold Connery on Vimeo.


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THIS IS A DISASTER .

Promo for "Star Trek: Generations" from 1992.

Bill's toupee looks painted on, Worf's forehead ridge was apparently purchased at a novelty store, and the announcer mispronounces Star Trek!



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Bill at the CMT Awards

Bill, Joe Walsh, and Brad Paisley (Bill's buddy) sing at the Country Music Awards. (Bill comes in at 3:30).

Tags: CMT Artists of the Year: Brad Paisley featuring Joe Walsh and William Shatner "Life's Been Good/Camouflage" Medley, Brad Paisley, Brad Paisley Videos

Also, you can see Bill presenting the Artist of the Year  award to Brad here.

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Show #152 - Dec 11

Episode 152 on MP3

Butt Girls in person!

A gift for Kitty
Next Trek movie in 3-D
Lene rants about "Ensigns of Command"
Part 2 of the Trek Comic (Where No Man)
Cracked.com - 5 Cover Songs That Stole the Show From the Original
Episode review: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (And here's JK's story)
Star Trek bathrobe!
Star Trek nutcrackers!
Bid for Bill's dog bowl!
What would you do with an hour with Bill?

Totally not worth looking at his butt.

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Seduction!Shatner Parts 2 & 3

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Seduction!Shatner in Action!

Just Part 1 for now.

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Bill should have done this.

Courtesy of our friend Laura, a true piece of pop culture, starring Mr. Burt Reynolds. If Bill had posed for Playboy, they wouldn't have been able to keep it in print!

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Hurt/Comfort a la Shatner

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Bill Sets Himself on (Fake) Fire for Safety

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Words to live by

From Sonja

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Real Life Trek Lego Costumes

Courtesy of io9. These are awesome.

Nicely done, Dengue Survivor.

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Show #151 - Nov 13

Episode 151 on MP3

Steve Jobs' last words
Star Trek freezicles, as seen in Wired
10 things you probably didn't know about Trek
The 10 Most Explosively Masculine Captain Kirk Battle Techniques
How William Shatner Makes Love, TV Star Parade, 1968
Peter Shatner??
JK reviews The Captains (and here's the GeekMom review)

Just look at how happy that little girl is.

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Your Guess Is As Good As Ours

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Best Halloween Costume!

From our friends at Pink Raygun:

Sexy Costumes: The Manly Edition

 Sexy Captain Kirk

Any one can put on a mustard jersey shirt, pepper their speech with inappropriate pauses, and say they’re Captain Kirk. Be daring! Ditch the shirt, toss a dishtowel around your shoulders, and go sexy with your Kirk!

Your Butt Girls approve this message. And if you want to go crazy, throw on a little dirt, or fake blood. That's what Kirk would do!

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Show #150 - Oct 23

Episode 150 on MP3

We're having a 4-Shatner day!

The blog looks DIFFERENT
And we have a poll! Vote early, vote often! 
JK reviews Bill's book 
Harry Potter, and Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality 
The Magician/The Magician King by Lev Grossman (JK says read 'em!)
Things that make you crazy in SF
What is hard science fiction?
Bad Transformers fanfic!

Shatner and Goetz

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Holy Shatner! Bill does Bohemian Rhapsody

I can't even....

Bill in the Sky With Diamonds.

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POLL: Kirk and the Female Legionnaires

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Show #149 - Oct 11

Episode 149 on MP3

Worst Trek episodes of all time (yes, I mispronounced "narcissistic")
Seeking Major Tom samples
Star Trek vs. Star Wars
Bill refuses to be interviewed! GASP!
Do any episodes of TOS pass the Bechdel Test?
Chris Pine meets Gary Lockwood
TOS + Legion of the Super-Heroes!

Davy Jones and Jerry Seinfeld's love child

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This is great!

Even if it is TNG.

My Star Trek Quiet Book

So who's feeling inspired? We could really use "My Kirk's Butt Quiet Book."

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Fussin' and Feudin' ... again ... still ...

Apparently, one of Shatner's Rules is "Never let George Takei have the last word."

 Click here to read more.

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Show #148 - Sept. 25

Episode 148 on MP3

Bill on Craig Ferguson
Kirk as a doorknob
Bill's CBC interview
Dr. Who and Trek: Not Science Fiction?
Why we hate the holodeck
Fanfic rec: Ghost in the Machine by Killa
New Trek post-Voyager series?

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Samples of "Seeking Major Tom"

If you go to this page at Amazon, you can listen to short excerpts from Bill's new LP. (Sorry, couldn't figure out how to embed it.)

What are your faves? Which tracks will be the best?

We've got our own ideas and will discuss on an upcoming show.

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Attention, all hands!

You can now see "The Tenth Level" on YouTube. (Part 1 embedded here, go to youtube.com for the rest).

 This is an amazing movie with a great performance by Bill and a superfluous shoulder roll!

 

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Those Damn Space Hippies!

The Way to Eden goes through San Francisco. Who knew? Bay Area Trekkies, this runs until SEPTEMBER 24.

Thanks, Capn Ho! I will not sully our blog with a picture of TDSH.

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Bill "Sings" Iron Man

From Revolver mag:

Acting legend and recipient of the Honorary Headbanger Award at this year’s Revolver Golden Gods has finally released his version of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” The Star Trek captain holed up with Black Label Society and former Ozzy Osbourne axman Zakk Wylde and Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez earlier this year to record the track, which can be found on his new double-album, Seeking Major Tom (Cleopatra), which comes out on October 11. Presales for the album start today right here!

Of working with Wylde, Shatner commented, “He’s fantastic! I’m energized.” Wylde was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Shatner and added, “He’s super cool, we had an awesome time working together.”

Revolver Mag debut William Shatner Iron man feat. Zakk Wylde by Cleopatra Records

I...don't think I like this. GASP!

Good guitars, tho.

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Trek Infographic - 45 Years in One Image!

Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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Happy 45th Trekkie-versary!

And here are the snacks for the celebration. Many thanks to Chad for the heads-up!

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Bill + Rookie Blue

We don't know what "Rookie Blue" is but Bill's guest-starring on the season premiere.

All together now: BILL! IS! EVERYWHERE!

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Look. At. His. BUTT.

Courtesy of the ever-lovin' zainin666 over at more_shatner. Happy sigh.

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Bill Is All Over the InterWebs!

This! Is! Everywhere!

Giddyup!

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My theory

I figured he got the black eye from the much bigger man he stole the suit from.

But I was wrong.

Read the article and listen to/watch the interviews. (Lene was practically beside herself seeing him do a Shatner Swallow(tm) in Real Life.)

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Wet suit! Chest hair!

Ours is not to reason why; ours is but to drool and sigh.

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Bill: The #1 Reason to Love Fan Expo

Bill Shatner doesn’t need our affirmation. Scientists have proven that, at any given second, Captain Kirk is doing something at least 6.7 per cent cooler than what you’re doing. Remember when Ben Folds produced Shatner’s second spoken-word album, Has Been, and people laughed (recalling, rightfully, his absurd parodic version of “Mr. Tambourine Man”) — but then it turned out to be, like, really kind of good? Or, remember the unmitigated genius in his interpretation of Sarah Palin’s language-mangling during the 2008 elections? Or his slew of post-slump roles that reinvented him as television’s coolest ironic self-aware dad? Never mind meeting him: writing this, we increasingly wish that we were William Shatner.

-- Postcity.com

"Check your data, Mr. Spock! A mere 6.7% is unacceptable. Kirk out."

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I Can Haz Enterprize?

I don't know who's making these cat trees but they're awesome. Here's one of Terok Nor.

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McCoy will keep you warm at night

Part of a collection of Trek quilts made by The Alligator Bride over on Etsy. Extra props for basing them on the Animated Series!

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Captain Kirk Watches Out For Danger

Ganked from Vibrant Oxymoron:

Captain Kirk guards the door to my room. Using advanced technology, he and Spock devised a way to shrink him to the size of a doorknob and make him two-dimensional. Posted behind the doorknob and disguised as paper, he is ready to report danger to me at any time.

T'Laina, you're a genius. I guess this is an Extremely Visible Doorknob (EVD).

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Hipster Star Trek blog

It's here. Just a sample:






There isn't a Kirk template yet. This is because Kirk could never be a hipster, not in this universe, the Mirror Universe, or any other universe. I dare the world to make a Hipster Kirk joke that's actually funny. (Hipster Spock, now that's another story.)

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Star Trek Book of Opposites

Via Neatorama:

 

 What better way of teaching future Starfleet officers the strange new worlds of opposites than by using illustrations from the greatest sci-fi show ever? David Borgenicht went where no man has gone before with his book: The  Star Trek Book of Opposites, published by Quirk Books.

NeatoBambino has a peek inside: Link

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Show #147 - Aug 10

Episode 147 on MP3

Bill at Comic-Con!
Google+ Plus Bill
Lene reviews The Captains
Fan mail!!
Bill should be King of Canada (he said so himself)
10 Best Trek Moments


Your typical Google+ user.

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Bill Talks! And Shills!

And he's sooooooo cute!

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Trekkies to Have Our Own Theme Park

Finally! Too bad we can't afford to go to Jordan.

"The resort will include hotels, theatres, dining and shopping. The entertainment will be themed around the idea of Jordan as "a crossroads of civilisations', Ms Ayoubi said.
The Star Trek-themed 'space-flight adventure' will be created under licence from CBS Consumer Products, which manages the licensing of television shows including the CSI series."

More info here! Beam us up!

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O Canada! Cheer up. Bill is on the way.

Bill is touring various Canadian cities in "How Time Flies: An Evening With William Shatner." He's going to sing songs from his new album!!!

Click here for the schedule. Tickets go on sale August 12 at Tickets will be available at Ticketmaster or charge by phone 1-855-985-5000.

We expect details reports from each and every one of you!

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Yeah, right

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star Trek

They wrote open-mouth kisses into the script! And they had to FORCE Bill to do them.

Other notes:

#3 kinda squicks me.

Fun comments, "analyzing" Spock's sex appeal. Capt. Snarky: "Now I've got an image in my head of Mr. Spock in a leather jacket sitting on a Harley Davidson while smoking an unfiltered cigarette."

QUICK CUT to fan art that I believe is now in Lene's possession.

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Star Trek Live in Seattle & Portland!

Reblogged from the Wondermark blog:

"Over the weekend I was in Seattle, and when I mentioned that startling fact on Twitter I received an invitation from @pdunwin to attend “Outdoor Trek,” a live “Shakespeare in the Park”-style performance of Star Trek by the theater company Hello Earth.

It was great! It’s playing one more time, this coming weekend on both Saturday and Sunday, and it’s totally free to attend. I’m only marginally a Star Trek fan myself, but it was a really, really fun show put on by folks who’re clearly having a blast doing it. Live music, hula-hoop-heavy transporter effects, and the judicious use of Silly String just add to the experience. More info here!

Hello Earth took the idea from the Portland group Atomic Arts, who’ve apparently been doing “Trek in the Park” for several years, and who will be doing their own show (the episode “Mirror, Mirror”) one last time for the season on August 27. More info on the Portland show here."

Dang! We need it in SF and Chicago! If you go please tell us about it!

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