I also hated that Speaktown insisted on inserting his "-isms" into the story ... the gross food, the eye-thing, the crappy CGI platformer scene ... all this sheit was unnecessary and added nothing to the tale.

@Blade Runner:

Perhaps you mean Fantastic Planet.

Shakycam, confused screeming, obscured and blurred imagery ... shit, another two-hour headache.

Dang, beat me to it ... I always figured Misfits was trying to do the X-men while skirting the edge of copyright laws. They had a teep, an iceman, a strongman, a mad scientist/moralist leader and they rotated rosters with every show. If the FX had been worth poodoo, it would have been pretty neat. As it was, wacky…

Bravo!

One of the things I have always pondered in an idle, offhand kind of way, is what the sky would look like if we had a shot of it with the stars and galaxies positionally corrected for time and motion.

"For some great physicists, it is the difference between getting a Nobel prize and admitting they spent their lives on the wrong track."

I had no idea Zimmer understood the cure for cancer. I mean, if he knows exactly what causes cancer, he must understand a cure. Why is he not sharing his amazing brilliant stupendous discovery with the rest of humanity.

Yup. As Bobby Heinlein would have it, aggression is natures way of saying "I'm a survivor."

Not a problem. Think "roach" or "rat" ...

Following the "tried and true" path is all well and good for a few billion years, then along comes a two-legged critter that can actually cause massive changes in your environment in a few years, changing the composition of the very ground that birthed you, making the places you used to hang out incredibly dangerous,…

Your psychic powers are still developing, I see.

NP, CJ.

Which you could not be bothered to answer. All others: thanks! Now I can tell Corey from Corey.

What I brought away from this provocative article: "Never enter a shelter with a 'lively four-year-old'."

I forget, which Corey is which? Obviously, this is a critical issue for me.

Excellent post, CJ!

The quibble was with the "planning" aspect, as Cairo is one of the more unplanned metropolises in the world, for good solid historical reasons. And to characterize all urban style as urban hipsterism is, I maintain, incorrect.

Moties!