so i get an from my friend telling me to sign up for william shatner’s dvd club…at first i’m like, “what the shit? who’s reading my diary?” because as a partially-oppressed future white-collar worker child in the 70’s, i could only dream of sharing a star-trek-like virtual space with a dude like shatner (who has his own web site btw http://www.williamshatner.com/)….for sci-fi junkies, this is the real deal, and it’s a very clever play on getting people to pay to own dvd’s that are already unpopular, would never move at wal-mart and might otherwise languish in the basements of shipping studios across the world..the short version: you pay a one time annual fee of 48 bucks and every month shatner sends you a sci-fi pick that you keep..if you already own it, they’ll replace it, and shatner will probably never talk to you personally (sorry, that’s how it is with superstars)

from sir shatner himself, “About the William Shatner DVD Club: The William Shatner DVD Club is the result of a partnership between FullTurn Entertainment, leading movie studios and me, William Shatner. Together, we intend to deliver the highest quality Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror DVDs to our subscriber’s homes every month for less than the price of rentals. Subscribers to the William Shatner DVD Club will be open to experience Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy films in their purest form…With the help of my team of expert film critics, I will fill your library with the titles movie lovers need to own.”

…and apparently, the secret sauce is shatner’s proprietary and unpublished playlist, culled from decades of his own personal favorites (uh, can you say barbarella? i could watch jane spin naked for hours without blinking; i hope shatner can too)…

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