Happy New Year from Looey

Hello Woodsy, all the best for a creative and blogworthy New Year! Moonbase really keeps me anchored in a community now Facebook has become so awful! In

I actually produced a finished image for the title of my puppet film on the last day of 2024, so I'm feeling as if I'm finally achieving something!

Just filmed on the floor of my studio with a camera and software I'd never used before, the final results were "good enough"

This probably isn't really blogworthy, but i thought you'd like to share my small triumph and enthusiasm for the future!

As the Great Chriswell said, 

"Everyone is interested in the future, because it's where you and I will spend the rest of our lives"!

Happy 2025,

 Looey

Oz Base

Best Wishes from Paul Vreede

New Year's Ray

Woodsy,

I added a new ray gun to the collection so as to be able to take my Remco helmet nerd pic. This one is a Razer Ray Gun made in China either in the late '80s or in the '90s - not sure which. The mechanism works but it has a crack in the housing.

From Vegas Base

Ed

New Year Message from Tony K

Happy New Year from MJ

Best wishes for 2024

From MJ at South Coast Base

Best wishes from Paul V

It's midnight over here,

so Happy New Year,

Paul V

Belgium

Happy New Year! From Ed

Happy New Year to all!
From Vegas Base
Ed and Bettina

A Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble New Year; Its 2024!

 

Happy New Year Readers! Thanks for all your continued support! Tune in to MoonBase Central throughout 2024 if you can!

Woodsy

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and on a complete whim I got this glass the other day for a New Year sherry. Going for a song, a rock song, I couldn't resist it's link to one of my favourite heavy bands in the 1970's, the mighty Uriah Heep.

Yes, those ever so 'eavy rockers took there name from Charles Dickens's famous scribblings no less.

It'll come in handy for my New Year tipple today!

Still in the Seventies I missed out on an old Dutch bone china tea cup , which had the word Vader printed on the side in beautiful script. No idea why I didn't swoop.

I can't find an exact picture of it but here's a similar cup with Vader on the side, along with Moeder, Dutch for Father and Mother.

Have you an interesting New Year glass, vessel, cup or favourite tipple?

IN CONCLUSION .....

As Chucky would say-

Put a KNIFE in this Holiday, ITS DONE!!!

Hope yours was a good one - 

BrianF 

Monster Base NJ USA

HEY READERS, ITS 2023!

ALL THE VERY BEST FOR 2023 EVERYONE!

AFTER THE HANGOVER WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

ITS NEW YEARS EVE!

 

TIME IS FALLING IN ON ITSELF.

A NEW YEAR BECKONS.

WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?

A Happy New Year from Paul V!

Happy New Year Readers!

THE TOWNE OF SMITHVILLE NEW JERSEY WHERE THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS STILL GLOWS

Hi Woodsy. Hoping you had a happy holiday. I have put away all the decorations but I am still reluctant to let the holidays go.

Last night I went to the Towne of Smithville to look at the lights twinkling on the water. The lights are programmed to dance to Christmas music.

There are also shops and restaurants there, open but socially distant.

I should also mention that Smithville is only a stone's throw away from Leed's Point. Birthplace of the Jersey Devil!

BrianF NJ USA

NEW YEAR, OLD FILMS: WE DANCED THE DANCE BABUSHKA!

Happy New Year Readers!

Well, after a quiet New Year's Eve, where the Missus and me saw in 2021 watching a drone display in the Highlands on TV, the New Year calendar can be pinned up at last. Not much going on it yet though except birthdays. Can't really plan anything can we!

Still, its a new beginning. And the start of fresh luck.

Yet as things begin, so too things finish. We've commiserated the ending of our EU membership this morning with a candle-lit continental breakfast at the table, which also seemed like a good way to bring in the New Year. Cheeses, meats, eggs and buns and hot coffee. I think we'll do it again tomorrow and remember our European friends, some of whom read this blog. But enough of politics. This is a nostalgia blog.

New Year, new nostalgia!

Its also a cold wet Bank Holiday here in England, which means nothing much is going on. We are in Tier 3 in Yorkshire, which means that shops are remarkably still open. Most of the country is in Tier 4 so it'll be really quiet there.

I haven't looked at the TV schedules for today but despite moaning about Christmas telly I did catch a few films in its dying embers.

Matilda is a flick I've always enjoyed since reading the book with my daughter in the late Eighties and then watching the film as a family when it came out. Like all those Roald Dahl stories - BFG, The Twits, The Witches - Matilda is a timeless tale and his ability to caricature the grotesque is what is so very appealing. Who can forget Miss. Trunchbowl, the shot-putting, javelin chucking headmistress of Matilda's school, who loves to throw kids in the 'chokey'! Danny Devito starred and directed and for me its his best role since Cobblepot in Batman Returns. What do you think?

The Addams Family from 1991 is another film I adore, especially the first one where Fester 'returns' from the Bermuda Triangle. Everyone plays their part brilliantly and I have always been especially enthralled by the Raul Julia's inspired portrayal of Gomez. Garamia. Babushka. So many memorable lines and scenes. The fencing dance with Fester was just wonderful, where they list the places where the Addams' have danced the Babushka. Gomez names his parents as Mommy and Daddums, which always makes me laugh. Sadly Raul Julia made Addams Family Values in 1993 and died aged just 54 a year later. A fine actor and for me he stole the show.

Deep Impact is a film of two halves and its the first half I've always like a lot. The conspiracy, the journos, the admission by the President, the revelation of the comet, Wulf-Beiderman. For me though the stand-out scene and one I could watch over and over is when Dr. Wulf first sees the comet on his pc screen, the coordinates having been emailed by one young Frodo Baggins from the stargazing club. Dr. Wulf is scoffing a huge slice of sloppy pizza and says something like 'Well hello there little fella, where are you going in such a hurry' before dropping his pizza and rifling through his workstation for an envelope and a floppy disk. Its just one of those little movie moments which I love. The second half of the film is too schmalzy and depressing so I usually watch something else. Do you like Deep Impact?

Actually, thinking about it, it reminds me of a book I read over the summer called Meteor, a movie tie-in. The film starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood and described a meteor heading for Earth. Its destruction is a novel joint effort between the US and the USSR, who both have to admit to having built Star Wars type space-weapons pointing at each other! Like Deep Impact's Messiah and the ICBM's, it doesn't work and all hell breaks loose. Have you seen Meteor readers?

There was one film I had hoped to catch on New Years Eve, Dead of Night, from 1945. Arguably the first horror anthology and possibly the best, Dead of Night is a black and white gothic gem made in the fading moments of World War II. You will know the short tales because they've been copied ever since, but none so well as the original: the child trapped in the wooden chest at Christmas and the mad ventriloquist plagued by his evil dummy. If you haven't seen Dead of Night then catch it sometime. I was miffed yesterday as it's very seldom on TV and just as it started some friends called by for a New Year rum snifter on the doorstep. Half a bottle of rum later and some very cold but red cheeks, I knew I'd missed most of the film. Ah well, till next time. Have you seen Dead of Night readers?

Which films did you like over the holidays? Maybe even a TV or radio show? Maybe even a book? Tell all.

Oh and, Happy New Year readers! Here's to a much much better one. Good luck to you and yours.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Its 2020 readers!

Here's to a great solar year!

To celebrate here are a few nic-nacs:

1. U2's classic song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Agamk

2. In case you missed it, the classic Dinner for One sketch loved across Europe at New Year except in

the UK! 

and 3. NASA's January and February space missions.

Its the stuff toys are made of!

https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/

WE TRAVELLED BEYOND THE SKY TO FIND THE FUTURE

The sky was as red as pink champagne

The mist descended like soda

We approached the Base

The host, Woodsy, was waiting outside

He said:

Let's get this pardy started!

Happy New Year Readers!

IT'S NEW YEARS EVE!

Cheers Readers!

See you in 2020!

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Video belongs to ITV Thunderbirds on You Tube.

A NEW JERSEY NEW YEAR

Hi, and a happy New Year to the crew at Moonbase Central.

I am grudgingly planning to take down the tree and decorations in a few days, but before I do that, I have put on some new ornaments given me by loved ones who really know how to make me smile.

Here's 2 Hallmark ornaments based on Hanna Barbera characters Scooby Doo and Dick Dastardly in his Mean Machine.

Also, a gorgeous hand blown glass Narwal. 

Perfectly eclectic additions to my perfectly eclectric tree.

Cheers,all!

BrianF 

NJ 

USA