other kids' books
Morgan Spurlock does "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"? I'd watch the shit out of that. Any other candidates?

Driving me nuts lately: highth. Yes, yes, I understand that people tend to overextend language rules, and if wide:width then high: highth, but - IT IS WRONG.

Would Terry Pratchett's "Nation" count as post-apocalyptic? Humanity as a whole isn't wiped out or pushed to the brink of extinction, but there are two huge disasters (the wave and the plague - not giving anything away here, they both appear right at the beginning) that wipe away the protagonists' worlds, and the book…

I'll admit, for a split second, i thought the Bear Jew was Adam Sandler. Then I realized I was an idiot.

Absolutely none. Seems like "Battlefield Earth" is the most seen of these…

How to determine whether or not something is junk food? If the list of ingredients in 10pt font is larger than the item itself, it is junk food. This rule forced me to abandon Breakfast Pockets.

Fried protein, fried carbs, caffiene, and Irn Bru - that's what real men eat for breakfast. Real women eat exactly the same thing, but with diet Irn Bru.

Final Destination: Are We There Yet? Is It Soon? Because I Really Have To Pee. Stop Punching Me!

I love my G1 (android). It kinda feels like the Linux to Mac's iPhone. It doesn't address the glut or quality control problems, but it's much more open. Pretty easy to program for, too, if you feel like getting your hands dirty.

Just about anyone would have been better as Constantine than Keanu, including Tilda herself.

At various points, I've been seriously into Diplomacy, Risk, Magic, and Illuminati NWO. All addictive in their own way, but the only one I still have is INWO, just because the cards are so damn funny.

OK, I'm an idiot. You do actually say he "brings together dozens of recipes". Sorry. I did read the article, just somehow missed that bit.

recipes?
Does the book give any idea of how to actually cook the items it discusses? I find it a bit frustrating to read about interesting but obscure food, without any way of tasting it myself. Also, I'm fond of weird food challenges, and it sounds like this book would be full of them.

I so very much wanted an Easy Bake Oven when I was a kid. I begged my parents, and always circled it in the holiday edition of the Sears catalog. My mom just pointed out that I could use the real oven whenever I wanted, as long as there was an adult around. I told her (and still tell her) that she was missing the…

I'm stubborn. I have only walked out of one film (Child's Play II or III, dunno, I walked out) and given up on <10 books. Angels and Demons was one. The very first sentence made me want to edit and/or puke. Why does this guy have a (hugely successful) career as a writer?? I read "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"…

True story: my parents had a brochure for a cruise in Indonesia, with an insert entitled "For Our Canadian Guests". The three features they judged to be the big draws for Canadians? a) hot tubs, b) a Gamelan Orchestra rendition of "O Canada" and c) Clamato at every bar on board.

I'm with ya, OTP. Having a little bit of alien glup hidden away in your be-lasered impenetrable metal body doesn't get you kicked out of the Evil Robots Social Club. Plus, now that the revived show has clarified the old "how do they handle stairs?" issue, hiding behind the sofa is the only rational thing to do.

LOST analogs and anti-Mythology sentiments
Sorry, just can't read eight pages of comments before posting. My excuse is that I was on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific, staying in abandoned barracks, trying to undo decades of misguided efforts to use the island for 'good' (fyi: Kaho'olawe). Watching…

So far I've heard Dumbledore, Aslan and Obi Wan called up as Jacob parallels, especially wrt his possibly deliberate death. The parallels seem to be a) father figures, b) cryptic as fuck, c) probably but not certainly right (both morally and in that their actions cause the hoped-for outcomes) and d) they allow the bad…

No, you still have a closed loop, it's just a more complicated one. Let me just draw it out here…