What sold it to me was that Ed Wynn made the pitch.  I don't know of any other role (although I'm sure there are some) where Wynn played something so serious—he was a slapstick comedy kind of guy, which made the whole thing all the more jarring.

Sounds like all this weekend really missed was human interaction, food, sunlight, and sex.

This reminds me of one of the best Twilight Zone episodes, IMO:  One for the Angels, where Ed Wynn tries to make a salespitch so good it'll distract Death from claiming a little girl's life.

Whenever anyone thinks of Union leaders in the Civil War, Lincoln is almost always the first one that springs to mind.  When people try to think of Confederate leaders in the Civil War, people usually think about Lee, or perhaps Jackson, but rarely Davis who is little remembered.  Which I find odd.

The South liked slavery economically.  It was worth a fortune—over $4 billion 1860 dollars.  The amount invested in slaves at the start of the war exceeded the value of all American industry combined.  All of that wealth was concentrated in the South.  That's the main reason why the South was willing to go to war over…

Maybe they just didn't like Dungeons and Dragons.

Munchausen can be a guilty pleasure, but it's really a bad movie.  Ambitious, but bad.  Neville gave a great performance that saved it from being a complete catastrophe.

Parenthood is one of the worst shows on television.  Someone is crying in every scene.  It's usually the old lady in the garden.

Oh crumbs!

Lindsay Lohan at least won't be remembered as the Yoko Ono of Generation X.

That's the nice thing about insanity.  It doesn't require any internal logical consistency.

Why would she talk about Orca when she could be talking about Zardoz?

Husker Du?

Agreed on Plantman.  The first time I saw it, I couldn't believe that it was an actual video.  Loved every minute of this episode.

Ubik is awesome.  I'd love to see that turned into a flick.

And a strain of American Christianity that believes that the only thing that's important is your own personal revelations and emotions, without the need to have any of them tempered with reason or understanding centuries of Christian thought.  It's part of the "drive-through spirituality" gripping America today.

Because if they had the same faith, there's never any way they would fight over anything as tawdry as the French throne or European nationalism.  Just religion.

Religion people who say things like that ought to take a break from parading around their ignorance.

So, spirituality should be all warm, fuzzy feelings, as long as there's no responsiblity attached?

I'm so sick of Phipps' damned ambiguity!  Did he like it or not?