Leonard Nimoy

Shekhina
$39.95
I'm really sorry to depart from the flock--though they tell me this is a free country--by fessing up that Shekhina is naught but artless, generic, insipid black-and-white photos of female nudes. My precocious five-year-old sons with a quality camera and a stern briefing and debriefing could do work that is at least as--well, workmanlike, I suppose. Leonard Nimoy constantly has to stick his fingers into whatever, but he certainly didn't pull out a plum this time (though arguably a prune). And he's the rudest gentleman I ever met: I sold my just-purchased $35 "Shekhina" to the guy behind me in line for $20 cash because Nimoy's response to my heartfelt thanks and appreciation and fan-stuff were so coolly received. He ought to consider himself lucky that he acquired legions of followers merely by standing there and saying "I can travel, captain" or "Over here, captain!" or "Using parts from both, I have completed one communicator." (Trekkers: identify the three episodes from just those lines! C'mon, 'tis easy [answers infra]!)

Well, I'd better say something to fill up space so you can't see the answers before you've at least scrolled past something, so I'll offer you a freshly written poem. This one is entitled "Pea."

Pea--
Luscious, verdant leguminous spheroid--
Boiled, buttered, and Bilbo Baggins baby-burped,
Scudding off my knife into my gaping pharyngeal chasm:
Such dissonantly dreadful manners for such a master of English!

O.K., here are the episodes. "I can travel, captain": "A Private Little War," after Spock is shot in the back by one of the Hill People; "Over here, captain!": "Friday's Child," after the communicator-caused landslide, raining down on the Capellans, leaves Jim unable to locate Spock; "Using parts from both, I have completed one communicator": "Patterns of Force," not longer after a Zeon hands Spock two two communicators (analyzed and resultantly disassembled and damaged) recovered from the Ekosian laboratory section at Party Headquarters.

Oh, the book was nicely bound on quality paper. But stick to Star Trek and related efforts rather than Nimoy's newfound Ansel Adams shtick.

Vincent
$19.99
I adored the tv show and now enjoy watching it again. Vincent Nimoy is a fabulous actor. The story of Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Marvelous.

Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space
$15.98
One wonders how such an astounding trainwreck could seemingly be so earnestly intended. It is impossible to do justice to how exceedingly, wretchedly cheesy this is. Others have hit the high (actually low) points, but I don't think there's any way to fully capture the essence of this disc. Kitschy, loungey, retro, irretrievably dated, utterly stunning... At times sidesplittingly funny, at other points unbearably wretched. Like a trainwreck you just can't turn away, though you know you should.

I Am Spock
$5.99
This is a wonderfully written account of Mr. Nimoy's 'Spock' experience, detailing the development of the iconic character, experiences with the studio, with lots of humorous anecdotes. I love the 'conversations' between Mr. Spock and Mr. Nimoy!