Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Born on this day – Jason Miller:


Jason Miller


Writer

Actor

Director

April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001

Credits:

Written work:

Barrymore's Ghost (2000); Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer (1971); Nobody Hears a Broken Drum (1970); That Championship Season (1972); Three One-Act Plays (1973).

Movies and television:

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977); A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010); A Home of Our Own (1975); A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (1989); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007–2014); De película (1983); Deadly Care (1987); Des Teufels Advokat (1977); Don Adams' Screen Test (1975); F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975); Fear and Love: The Story of the Exorcist (2024); Finding Home (2003); Good Morning America (1984); Light of Day (1987); Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980); Miller's Tale (2011); Minty Comedic Arts (2023); Mommy (1995); Monsignor (1982); Murdered Innocence (1996); Night Heat (1987); Occulture (2023); Paradox Lake (2002); Reward (1980); Rudy (1993); Small Kill (1992); Terror in the Aisles (1984); That Championship Season (1982 / 1999); The 27th Annual Tony Awards (1973); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002); The Anatomy of Horror (1995); The Best Little Girl in the World (1981); The Dain Curse (1978); The Eternal (1998); The Exorcist (1973); The Exorcist III (1990); The Exorcist III: Legion (1990); The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist' (1998); The Henderson Monster (1980); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Joe Spinell Story (2001); The Making of: The Nickel Ride (2019); The Merv Griffin Show (1974); The Mike Douglas Show (1974); The Nickel Ride (1974); The Ninth Configuration (1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974); Toy Soldiers (1984); Vampire (1979); Visionado obligado (2011); Welcome to the Basement (2014).

Born on this day – Marie-José Nat:


Marie-José Nat


Actress

April 22, 1940 – October 10, 2019


Born on this day – Louise Glück:


Louise Glück


Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Damien Broderick:


Damien Broderick


Writer

April 22, 1944 – April 19, 2025
Credits:

Books:

A Man Returned (1965); Adrift in the Noosphere (2012); Alien StarSwarm / Human's Burden (2010); Beyond the Doors of Death (2013); Building New Worlds, 1946-1959 (2013); Centaurus (1999); Chained to the Alien (2009); City of the Tiger (2015); Climbing Mount Implausible (2010); Consciousness and Science Fiction (2021); Dark Gray (2010); Do Unto Others (2021); Earth Is but a Star (2001); Embarrass My Dog (2010); Fantastika (2014); Ferocious Minds (2005); Gaia to Galaxy (2012); Godplayers (2005); Human's Burden (2010); I'm Dying Here / aka I Suppose a Root's Out of the Question? (2006); Intelligence Unbound (2014); Kingdom of the Worlds (2021); K-Machines (2006); Knowing The Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work (2015); Matilda at the Speed of Light (1988); New Worlds (2013); Not the Only Planet (1998); Other Spacetimes (2015); Outside the Gates of Science (2007); Perchance to Wake (2016); Philosophy's Future (2017); Post Mortal Syndrome (2011); Psience Fiction (2018); Quipu (2010); Reading by Starlight (1994); Restore Point (2012); Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012); Sorceror's World (1970); Starlight Interviews (2017); Strange Highways (2013); Striped Holes (1988); The Architecture of Babel (1994); The Black Grail (1986); The Book of Revelation (1999); The Dark Between the Stars (1991); The Daymakers (2014); The Dreaming (1980); The Game of Stars and Souls (2002); The Hunger Of Time (2003); The Judas Mandala (1982); The Last Mortal Generation (1999); The Lotto Effect (1992); The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013); The Qualia Engine (2010); The Ruined Queen of Harvest World (2011); The Sea's Furthest End (1993); The Spike (1998); The Time Machine Hypothesis (2019); The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc. (2015); The White Abacus (1997); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012); The Zeitgeist Machine (1977); Threshold of Eternity - The Novel (2017); Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order (2011); Transcension (2002); Transmitters (1984); Transrealist Fiction (1996); Uncle Bones (2009); Under the Moons of Venus (2021); Unleashing the Strange (2009); Valencies (1983); Valencies: A Science Fiction Novel (2013); Warriors of the Tao (2011); X, Y, Z, T: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004); Xeno Fiction (2013); Yggdrasil Station (2020); You're Not Alone (2014); Zones (1997).

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)

Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 / book (2019)

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 4. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Unforgettable.

Released April 22, 1998.

Directed by Andrew J. Robinson.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Greg Elliot, Michael Perricone, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Michael Canavan, Virginia Madsen, Tarik Ergin.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: In a Mirror, Darkly.

Released April 22, 2005.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Kevin Kiner, Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Franc Ross, Alexandrea Ortiz, Craig Baxley Jr., Caroline Bielskis, Steve Blalock, Mark Correy, James Cromwell, Evan English, Cully Fredricksen, Peter Godoy, Glen Hambly, Noelle Hannibal, Scott Sterling Hill, Dieter Horneman, Yoshio Iizuka, Tamara Krinsky, Andrew Macbeth, James McElroy, Louis Ortiz, Paul Sklar, Pablo Soriano.

Star Trek: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701

by Ben Robinson, Marcus Riley, Simon Hugo.

Illustrated Handbook.

Hardcover.

Published by Hero Collector; Illustrated edition.

Published 2019.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1858755786

ISBN-13: 978-1858755786

Description:

Captain James T. Kirk's Original Starship Enterprise! Everything you want to know about this iconic starship in the FIRST full color volume ever published. Featuring details from both TV series and the first six movies.

This volume, featuring the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 and the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A, is a detailed, illustrative account of the TV starship from the original 1966-1969 series, and the movie starship from STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982), STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984), STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986), STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (1989), and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991). Plus, Captain Pike's Enterprise from the hit TV series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.

With isometric illustrations of all the key locations, annotated plan views, detailed technical information, Starfleet equipment, and uniforms and insignia, the chapters follow the starships through time and provide an extraordinary reference guide to these iconic Federation vessels.

On this day in music history - The album Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008)


Unspoken


by Jami Sieber

was released on April 22, 2008.

Track list:

Opening; Benediction; The River Between; Night Song; 6 O'Clock News; The Moon Inside; Listening; A Dialogue of Silk; Broken Open; Unspoken; Returning.

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

 

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2


This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/


To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.


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