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09 Sep 2021 05:48 PM
Ray Bradbury, one of the best sci-fi authors has sadly passed away aged 91. May his works be forever unburnable.
Okay. Wow. Thanks to Annals of Improbable Research for pointing this out to me. I feel such an awesome thing is wasted on such a terrible song. bbLshnfu0wY
Kinda says it all: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150992696947413&set=a.496252457412.269264.207108197412&type=1&theater
I commute on the train 1 or 2 days a week now, and it's giving me time to use my nook and actually get some stuff read. I recently finished Unbroken, which is something I think should be read by those of us who haven't lived through a World War. ...
A limited IMAX release, for the week of Sep 7-13. I'm assuming US only, and I don't know how many theaters it'll be in. Normally I'm not too excited about movie re-releases, but this one for some reason grabs my attention. I actually want to...
Another of the golden age Sci-Fi writers has passed away. Harry Harrison, author of the Stainless Steel Rat series, and many, many other sci-fi novels has died aged 87. I really enjoyed his books and he will be missed.
Thanks to all the great public domain stuff out there on the Web, I recently read a wonderful booklet from the early 20th Century called "Farming with Dynamite". This fine publication of the Dupont corporation is a gold mine of information about...
After decades of reading practically nothing by Lovecraft, I recently went on a bit of a binge (helped by the fact that just about everything he wrote is in the public domain and available for free on my iPad). I've pretty much hit my limit...
Not news, but I just learned about it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61463-2004Nov18.html http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=9040 "But I don't wanna be a pirate...!"
Because I want a place to ramble on about the movies I see. :dumbo::hist::dumbo: I believe we all know the awesomeness of The Avengers, so instead I will start with ...
Fye5Nwe4qeI Marsilia got me hooked on the Hunger Game series of books and now the first of the movies is coming out this spring. I'm geekily excited about it, because sci-fi with a strong, young female lead isn't exactly a plentiful genre.
This is fucking ridiculous. Making The Hobbit into 2 movies was already a stretch; this is just an insulting, transparent money-grab.
We in these isles have been having lovely summery weather the last few days. Here's a thread for summery tunes. K_MUOIVNsfw U6tV11acSRk BJRbvgJhR-U
Who's old enough to join the AARP and still turns your crank? I'll start this thread off with Mark Harmon, who still looks great: Yes, I would still do you, Mark. In fact, I'd probably pick you over Michael Weatherly.
I was just pondering restarting the Star Trek TOS discussions we had going on for a while here--possibly starting over at the beginning and doing them in chronological order--and that got me thinking about genre TV in general. I know we've discussed...
As part of the new 52 reboot series for DC Comics, it was noted that one of the major characters would be revealed as being homosexual. The choice of character is Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern... ...who has been twice married with...
Didn't get around to opening the thread until now, largely because I forgot that tonight is the season premiere. Hmm, maybe a bad sign. Anyway, Castiel's God. What will happen? Can't be anything bad, can it?
Every once in a while, I find myself thinking, "Shoulda stayed on the farm, shoulda listened to my old man."
I'm sure there's a questionably witty name for it on TVTropes if I could be bothered to look for it. I just call it "status quo ex machina." It seems to occur with great frequency in cheesy movies and Crichtonesque airport novels: if the main plot...
Well what is one?
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/256889/
I watched a few episodes in reruns recently, and was surprised how dated it seems. Of course, the clothes are part of it, but I can't put my finger on why it seems worse than other shows of it's era (like Seinfeld). Maybe because it lent so many...
Was there a youtube music thread around here? Am I just blind? Well, anyway, I've been listening to All Songs Considered on MPR and I think I'm in love. Two that they played and I can't get out of my head are 6wcZb80f5VE and 2CZ8ossU4pc ...
Love or hate the previous album cover, then post one of your own! Love and hate are your only choices. I will start with this:
One for all the trekkies out there. It has been confirmed that all 5 Star Trek captains will be appearing at the same time on the same stage along with a host of other famous guests. Looks like it is going to be a big convention.
It appears to be for a Japanese animated TV series featuring rabbits fighting terrorist lizards called Cat Shit One. If any of our Japanese based Domers would like to explain this, I'd be much obliged.
Michael Bay, fresh from such great movies as Transformers has decided to completely ruin another part of people's childhoods by making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action movie. Only they wont be Mutants, no - they will be aliens....
Garry Trudeau's strip Doonesbury has taken aim at the ruling in Texas that all abortion seekers must have sonogram before they can actually have an abortion in order to make them reconsider. As a result, several newspapers have decided against...
Here's an interesting letter from Brave New World author Aldous Huxley to George Orwell after the publication of the latter's classic 1984. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html
A landmark of sorts. I thought they'd really go all out with it. Apart from the run through of couch gags at the start it was a fairly straight forward episode. A couple of laughs but I think the show has long since begged to be put out to pasture....
I saw this today on Youtube and it gave me a glimmer of hope. BxcJxSCwSiY&feature=fvst
Mine's Elton John. He's a talented musician and all, but I just really don't like his stuff. I think most of his hit songs kind of suck, actually. And there are a lot of artists whose music isn't particularly what I'm into, but I can see why...
Last night my wife and I watched Tucker and Dale vs Evil. It's based on the typical horror movie trope of a bunch of douchey college kids on vacation being slaughtered by psycho hillbillies. Only, in fact the hillbillies are a couple of amiable...
Not trailers for bad movies, but trailers that mismarket movies. Not intentionally, either. Inspired by the Obscure movie rec thread in which I went looking for the trailer for Nobody knows. Link to the trailer:...
A new blog is taking descriptions of literary characters from the book and creating composite sketches using modern software : http://thecomposites.tumblr.com/ For fun, try and see if you can pick any out of this lineup. If you want to try and...
http://www.wright-house.com/steven-wright/steven-wright-jokes.html Just a few: Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. I didn't know it then, but looking back, in hindsight,...
I'm trying to think of some (metaphorical) thing that's irrestistable, impossible to refuse etc, but is actually toxic/ugly/intolerable in some way. I'm sure there's plenty of these things in the world, but I can't think of any... please help! :(
In keeping with the current hollywood tradition of rebooting its franchises for modern audiences instead of remaking them? Which is best for a film? To try and remake the earlier film, the same characters, roughly the same plot and updated for...
I'd originally thought of making this a rant, but on retrospect, I think there's something to be discussed. Last night I was searching on iTunes for versions of "Goodnight, Irene". That's got to be one of the greatest songs of all time....
Thank you spitz, this is hilarious and I know several cats that act this way. EKvNqe8cKU4 All your boxes are belong to cats :kitteh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIABo0d9MVE&feature=youtu.be
Had to do it.
What have you got? Please post some movies that include really fabulous, maybe slightly over-the-top efforts by your favorites.
Its the Golden Globes coming up with your very special host Ricky Gervias, back for a third year. It's going to be packed and I reckon a lot of celebs will be waiting to see who he picks on, and hoping it isn't them. Or if he does, they hope its...
In a way we have come to our homeland’s headtown to call in a draught. When our great folkdom's fathers wrote the haughty words of the Books-of-Rights and the Call for Lonestance, they were underwriting a hight to which every American was to fall...
As a set of films it has earned an awful lot of money and has delighted kids everywhere over the last decade or so with all eight films. But it has never really been accoladed with any awards for its achievements. Either the acting within them or...
I nearly wet my pants laughing at some of these entries - enjoy! https://twitter.com/#!/ActualPerson084
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