The Blue Nebula Cantina

Sorry they are all so far away from you. I wouldn't want to drove an hour either. Maybe if it was for something less emotionally taxing. I want to go visit Chicago sometime this summer. It'll be the summer to do stuff. Unlike last summer where I sat around. I can do this...even if it is just 1 thing. Better start mentally preparing now haha

The entirety of 2017 was nothing but a long series of one spectacular failure after another. Really not looking forward to 2018. Every time I tried to get out and do something, it ended in failure. Like trying to go to GenCon, only to realize the roach motel has a CSI squad parked out front and there's nowhere else to stay and no friends came with because they had no money, et cetera. Yeah, that was just one instance of many.

Another year like that, and I'll be ready.

Chicago is fun, but Milwaukee is more like Boston. Only thing I really care to go to Chicago for anymore is to go to Topolobampo, Rick Bayless' restaurant.

I have a hard time thinking Milwaukee is comparable to Boston. I hate Milwaukee. I love Chicago and wish I could afford to move there. Either a big city or the middle of nowhere, both will give me the solitude I prefer.

I think for me, Milwaukee's architecture and layout sort of reminds me of it. I loved Bova's Bakery. We get there at one in the morning, and there's a line out the door. I'm like...wth...? There's people out walking with their baby strollers, and jogging--at one in the morning.

I also remember going to Cheers three times. Norm's Bowl of Chowder--their house clam chowder, was amazing. Small bowl, but it's like the TARDIS--bigger on the inside than on the outside. That and a souvenir mug was like $15.

Solitude for me looks like a small northern coastal town where it's a mild 80 degrees all year with a nice breeze off the coast and crystal blue water as far as the eye can see.

Hello. Some strangers in my life helped me more than therapist. I also coudn`t open up because I was feeling insecure all the time. The therapist said it must be my decision and if I really don`t want to take a part in it, there won`t be progress. I quit.

Yeah, that was bad therapy. You don't make someone more insecure if they're there to work on insecurity issues.

For me, it's more a fear that they will use what I say against me from back when it was a reality.

I remember being forced to go to therapy as a kid. Then my mom would sit in and take over the conversation or discuss me afterwards, I never felt I could be me or open up. It turned me off from talk therapy. I don't feel I could trust a complete stranger who gets paid 150 bucks an hour. Like, I won't ever feel their concern or interest is genuine.

Do you guys serve dogs at this joint? My pup wants a woofersnip.

Sure, bring the little shvitz in. Just so long as you clean any messes. lol

And that is exactly what it is, Unhinged. I was in a place where I found one that wasn't in it for money, and knew by a sort of trial-by-fire. Now, I find it too hard to trust others because I don't want to put myself under someone's power like that.

Even a psychiatrist is hard because I still need to talk about things if even for 20 minutes 3 times a year for a script.

Had one who said, you just need to learn to relax.

Gee, if I could relax I wouldn't be here.

For me, I have a need to make the therapist my friend, first. It's a strange feeling...I dunno.

Probably because we want a friend? I know I have like 1. In real life.

Doing better than me.

*brews hot kaf for the morning crowd and turns on the TV...*

Star Wars and Hitchhikers nerd here! Ermahgerd!

I refuse to see the Star Wars: The Last Jedi or the 2019 Star Wars Episode IX because both are so far removed from the 1977 Star Wars film and storyline.

Awesome cantina, by the way!

Thanks! lol I'm the same way. OEU Star Wars all the way. This chimera that Disney is attempting to create is a crime against humanity. Worse, it's warping an entire generation into thinking that this is how Star Wars was, a watered-down, feel-good, saccharine mess with bright colors and sing alongs. lol

*pours mug of hot kaf for you*

Psh, Star trek is waaay better

Hahaha!!!

Dr. Who IS!

I just got into Dr Who a few months ago. I wasnt sure how far back to start since it has been on forever.

lol Uh oh...this can only be settled one way. A drinking contest.

Tom Baker, aka is my Spirit Animal.

He shaped my childhood by igniting my imagination. I even had the good fortune of meeting him when I was 12 at my first Dr. Who Convention. HE is hysterically funny.

Start with Tom Baker's Dr. Who and work forward from there. All on YouTube.

Do you remember the first episode that got you hooked as a kid? Or just in general to sci-fi type shows and movies?

Im 29, just for reference here, and before school every day there was a cartoon called the Magic School Bus. It was science and a little fantasy and I loved it. I wanted to shrink down and swim with plankton. Or zoom around mars.

So many sci-fi i tv shows on at the time I was young. I looked it up - season 16 (1978-1981) episode 1: "The Ribos Operation" where Dr Who is searching for the key to all Time.

I also watched Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica (the original), Space, Timeslip, Land of the Giants, Star Lost, and The Jetsons cartoon to name just a few. I'm in my late 40s so I think sci-fi has evolved a lot since the 1970s.

I am going to weigh in on this conversation. I am a hardcore Star Trek fan because it was my escape when I was a kid, and it introduced me to a world where ANYONE can be ANYTHING. As much as I LOVE Star Wars (Carrie Fisher is my hero), the thing that held my love for Star Trek was the message of the series more than anything else. Also, my complete love affair with Commander Riker and his glorious beard MIGHT have had something to do with it too! Haha!

I never got into Doctor Who, although its not that I don't like it or anything its that its been on for SO LONG, I have no idea where the heck to start!! I definitely want to watch it and get into it, but gosh there is so much of it to watch!

Any tips on where to start would be helpful to all you die hard Whoovians out there! Also the fact that I read that new Doctor is going to be a woman this time around is awesome!

Riker was such a sleezebag. I loved it.