I know im going to get flamed, but I just don't get it. I'm 42, and I did watch it back in the 80's on pbs with my pals, usually after playing D&D (back when that meant you could be burned at the stake). I didn't get it then, and I still don't today. My daughter watches it... Obsessively. But I doubt she'd watch old…

I'm from the mid-west, just few miles from the Mississippi River, and ducks are fairly common here because of hunting, not so much at a store.

Good God we can only hope. That would be so frickin cool I could die of nerdgasm induced nirvana.

Oh I have. I enjoyed the movie when it came out, then read the book and I was super pissed that they missed an opportunity to make a movie that could have rivaled Star Wars.

I was a member of the SFBC for many years and I ordered this to fulfill an obligation with a bunch of other books that I wasn't sure if I really wanted. Most of them were really bad and forgettable. This one, however, is my all time favorite book. I grok.

Well, is this a case where we can say "Thank God for the hackers and their righteous work"?

St. Louis:

I bet it's deliberate misinformation.

You gave me chills, dude. Excellent.

This is the DC vs Marvel bias in all of its glory.

I'll admit I was shocked when Ned died after I read it - I certainly wasn't expecting him to kill off who I thought the main character of the story was going to be. I agree that it was shock value if that means GRRM wanted to make it clear that no one was safe, because, let's face it, no one is IRL, so why should you…

Killing off Sean Bean/Ned Stark and David Carradine/Wild Bill wasn't shock value on these shows it was following the story line from the novels and real life, respectively. What an idiot.

I can't imagine I was first with this but I'm too lazy to check.

Well, the time capsule in Jerseyville was opened today... This is what was inside:

The Piasa Bird. A similar creature (one without wings) was painted on the bluffs by the Mississippi River between Grafton and Alton, Illinois and was described in great detail by the explorers Marquette and Joliet. It was scarred and pockmarked by arrows, and later, over the centuries, musket balls. It was eventually…

Wes, I'm sorry to hear that. I work in the judicial system and I'm a peace officer. I'd like to hope that these guys were reluctantly following just the one (?) asshole who threatened Wiley. It seems like there's always one guy on every shift who's sole purpose is just to fuck with people. It gives the rest a bad…

I carry a 'hawk when I'm in the woods. I have an old cheap steel head that I've had since I was a kid. I've replaced its handle many, many times. I ground its tear shaped spike into a more narrow point for easier piercing. I got a "tactical" 'hawk two years ago - almost too pretty to use. They're both light…

Always with the negative spin, Bricken.

Don't care. Han Solo: winnah!

Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein