Welcome to the Eighties!

The 80’s ruled.

I’m sorry, they did. I can point to a million reasons why, but I’ll summarize:


1. Better movies
2. Better music
3. I was younger
4. Better Candy
5. Starlog Magazine still ruled.


See? Now there might be some of you who disagree, and that’s fine. You would also be wrong. But don’t let that drag you down- you just don’t know any better.

Point is, I used to love me some Starlog Magazine.

See, back in the 80's before the interweb, where you could get movie info before they even write a damn script, you had to get information on flicks and sci-fi through magazines, tv shows and word of mouth. Not easy to do when most media still thought of sci-fi as “goofy kids stuff” and rarely reported on anything new and word of mouth only took you as far as folks with like interests.
But real news stories on sci-fi, those were hard to come by.

Enter Starlog magazine.

Starlog was THE magazine for sci-fi buffs like me, packed with pics, stories and all manner of goodness that made my little eight year old heart flutter. Back when Chris Reeve was sporting the Big Red “S” and a film named “TRON” set the movie world on its ear with its cutting edge computer graphics, Starlog was the magazine that brought you the updates and stories that whet your appetite.

So why am I talking about it now?

Because, like most things from my childhood- all of my issues were either read to tatters or disappeared over time. I regret to say I don’t thave even one issue left from those halcyon days. But no worries! There is always back issues to spend my hard earned dollars on, right?

Well, there was till I read this line the other day:

“On Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 at approximately 11 a.m. a warehouse, operated by Kable News, in Oregon, Illinois containing back issues of Starlog and Fangoria burned to the ground.”

Damn.

So, crushed, I thought my childhood treasure trove would never return to my hands- that those wonderful magazines would forever be but hazy memories, tinted by the sepia tones of hot summer days sitting in my Aunt Wilma’s back yard reading about some movie called “Heavy Metal”.

Ah, but if the interweb is good for nothing else besides deviant pornography and pirated music, it is most certainly good for one other thing:

EBAY!

That’s right! For a mere pittance I will soon have in my hands over two dozen copies of Starlog dating back from the late 70’s to early 80’s!

YEAH!

Needless to say I’m freaking thrilled. And you can bet these bad boys are going to be treated like they were woven from freaking gold.

And don’t even bother asking if you can borrow one- the sound of me laughing in your face might be too much for you to handle- especially if I’ve been eating a lot of garlic.

If you’re lucky I might let you watch as I read them from a distance.

On the website front, the update is coming along better than I expected! So you can look forward to seeing it roll out sometimes this Friday!!!!

STARLOG!