I am surprised Discworld didn't make the list.

i read the books because I enjoyed the Lynch adaptation.

Whoever hired assassin, Assassin, wife. the rest had nothing to do with it it all.

is it vampires? Del Toro does good vampires (Cronos, Blade 2, The Strain), but his non-vampire horror (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Mama) often lets me down.

so still no itunes, meaning I have to sign up for some completely separate service and.or buy an xbox to see it instead of just buying the stuff i want to see directly. I need to just give up all hope of ever seeing Book 3, so i can stop being upset about not having any way to watch it.

I am happy to hear that. Kids benefit from having a big support network of doting adults, adults benefit by spreading the work and expense of childcare over a larger number of adults.

Given time, this should correct itself, as whatever eats seals will show up.

surprised no one has mentioned this yet.

Does Duncan Idaho count, given that the God Emperor of Dune kept ordering new gholas of him, and then the Bene Gesserits made a superclone?

being in multiple concurrent sexual relationships has been around for about as long as sex, and people have been slowly paring it down to serial monogamy or marriage. with this in mind, I predict asexuality to be the wave of the future, especially as the cost of having and caring for children goes up due to resource…

just as my employers want me to use as much of my work-time as possible to do good things for the company and the customers, I want to use as much of my personal time as possible to benefit me, so I want to choose how I use that time just as carefully if not moreso.

I would think more concrete, evidence-supported self-affirmations would be more helpful than the vague ones in the examples above. "I am good at this particular task," as a way to feel confident about something specific, and then work on being good at other tasks and feeling confident about those as well.

discworld.

I am very happy to say I have never actually met someone who looks down on scifi/fantasy/horror/etc fans. I believe Slate is just making it all up to troll people.

Chexsystems isn't the only reporting system out there. There is also Chexscan (if you wrote a bad check to a major retailer like Target or something, it would show up there) and Early Warning Systems (similar to Chexsystems). different banks check different reports, and have different rules on what impact those…

I can see how making it harder to actually buy something, even once a potential customer is already in the store and ready to spend their money, might add to the image of exclusivity and hard-to-get-ness that makes a luxury item desirable. I can also see how treating customers badly might make them go buy the same…

Thankfully, the fate of the world hasn't been at stake in most of the horror movies coming out nowadays. it's usually a small circle of friends or a family being bothered by the ghosts/demons/whatevers.

This is definitely the best reply. I am hoping for Clan Giovanni: The Movie.

hasn't shown up for class in years.

I was assigned Joseph Campbell in a college class years ago. Never heard of him before that. The assigned reading was a little book breaking down the various bits and pieces of a pattern Campbell had seen in certain legends and popular books/movies. I figure fans of this type of story will probably spot the pattern…