This thought is not mine, but Ken Hite’s. It’s part of his bloody marvelous Tour de Lovecraft
Hence, you can watch Pleasantville as a photographic negative of “The Colour Out of Space.” As the color which nobody in the world has ever seen before spreads, their society is destroyed. We have met the Colour, and it is us.
No, think about it for a second. Consider Pleasantville
Don’t want to give the wrong impression.
It Was A Very Good Year
Continue reading Thirty-Nine is, by the way, not bad at all.
It being Wednesday, and me just finishing up a bout of video editing (which is not particularly my primary skill), Movie of the Week is right up my alley right now in terms of being not very demanding as a post. So, we remove Taken
Because my father and I watched that film together once, when I was about 13 or so. He wasn’t into science fiction, but a movie about an aircraft carrier that could have end the Pacific War in an afternoon? Yeah, he could see the merit in that.
He thought Predator 2
Moe Lane
After pounding my head against the wall for two hours to get Vista to recognize my camcorder – and then having it do so for absolutely no reason whatsoever – I personally feel that I need this moment of… well, Absurd Photoshop Disasters. A taste:
Via @mlane. Hey, it’s a mutually beneficial confusion of Twitter account names, really.
As the laptop has now been replaced. Well, ordered, at least: between the contributions and a couple of unexpected gift certificates, I was able to put together the cash. My thanks to everyone who contributed funds towards ensuring that my online nattering-on is sped up (God help you all).
If you’d still like to buy a sonnet, though, feel free to hit the button. Hey, Billy Shakespeare would have been all over that idea…
So that becomes One dead, one injured in foiled robbery/rape/murder attempt in Georgia. Via Fausta:
College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader
…Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.
Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.
That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.
Continue reading Mass rape, murder in Georgi… no, wait, one of the ‘victims’ had a gun.
Something soothing to end the evening.
“Wild Mountain Thyme,” Dick Gaughan
His wife is recovering from a pregnancy-related surgery.
Prayers requested; prayers offered. That particular kind of situation certainly resonates with me, these days…
And with him, a little piece of our history. Via Transterrestrial Musings:
ST. PETERSBURG, FL—Phurba Dorje, the lunar Sherpa guide who blazed the trail for the Apollo 11 astronauts and made it possible for Neil Armstrong to become the first white man to set foot on the moon, died peacefully in his sleep Monday in his Florida apartment. He was 71.
Dorje, whose career with the U.S. space program spanned more than a decade, carried provisions, equipment, and solid rocket fuel on 13 missions in the 1960s and 1970s, but is best known for guiding Armstrong and his crew to Tranquility Base in 1969.
“Without Phurba’s invaluable guidance and sturdy legs, I doubt we ever would have made it beyond Earth’s atmosphere,” Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins said of the man who strapped the crew’s Passive Seismic Experiment Package to his back for all but the last 20 feet of the 238,855-mile journey. “He was a true hero and a wonderful cook.”
But the Onion is wrong: Dorje’s finest achievement was during Apollo 13
Moe Lane
*But then, you can (seriously) say that about a goodly number of people.
(Via @bdomenech) This is actually one of those things that you either get, or you don’t. Either way, there’s no point in explaining, so let me just lay this out:
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.
For those who ‘get’ it: your new guru may be found here.
