Oh, I'm a total fan. But Dream Logic should avoid camp, which is how the lead in Eyes comes off to me. Thousand-yard stare, every utterance a doom-laden intonation, giving off a million hints that he's the guy abducting young women and no one picking up on it. Once you add tired cops to a story, you're getting away…

My oldest son used to hold out his arm, make a fist, and charge straight at me, smashing me in the nads when I was too slow to block (which was usually). I can't feel a thing down there anymore. Here's a baseball bat, go crazy.

"You fucker!", even to inanimate objects. Well, exclusively to inanimate objects.

Anne Patchett went through a winshield in a horrible car wreck when she was young, and I believe she said that for over a year afterwards, she would cut her hands every time she washed her hair, on the shards of glass that kept emerging from her skin.

Christianity went through it's own extremist wars over whether depictions of Jesus were blasphemous or not. Left us with the word "iconoclast."

One of my favorite episodes of any sitcom ever: The Buffalo Bill show where Bill's station is taken over, Night of the Living Dead-style, by a horde of Jerry Lewis impersonators. Such a great idea for show.

V can never be remade. Not without Jane Balder.

GREAT theme music. I can hear it now (I must have seen those episodes a bunch of times), and picture Boothe staring through the empty chambers of a smoking revolver. The best show or movie he ever did, easily.

The idea of someone making a ripoff remake of Eyes Without a Face appeals to me, because while parts of the original are brilliant and incredibly eerie, at least half of that film is ridiculously bad (the surgeon's one-note "I am a man obsessed" performance, which no one on screen seems to find odd, the lazy cops,…

Dreadstar just got worse and worse as it went along, but those first dozen issues or so, up until Vanth kills Z, are astounding. Wonderful characters and art. I've followed Starlin off and on through the years (I was too young to have caught his glory days with Adam Warlock/Captain Marvel, though Marvel seems to be…

The sex and satire in Flagg! turned me off as a kid and kept me from collecting it. Recently, someone gave me a gorgeous hardcover compilation of the first few dozen issues, and I'd say it holds up very well, especially for a speculative fiction story that's 30 years old. Much better than the majority of Chaykin stuff…

Also from Chandler: "She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket."

She was gifted with an abundance of luscious carnality in the pectoral area, causing no small effect of lascivious imaginings among the priapic young males among whom she passed…
"Brah, I'd TOTALLY destroy that," discretely opined one of the more demonstrative members of Tau Beta Mu.

You have to admit, looking at my comment, that an abundance of exclamation marks lends an air of dignity and maturity to the work.

[Tips a banana daiquiri onto the curb]
[Exhales]

Not true! Not true at all!!! I can use as many as I want!!!!!!! I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You could almost argue that the opening sentence of Neuromancer is about technology, or its integration into the atmosphere and the biology of the world, as it is about the weather. But if Gibson does break the rule, it just proves that geniuses can do that. It strikes me that Dickens probably broke every damn one of…

While it's terrible to lose writers like Leonard and Westlake, it's not quite fair to suppose that writers at least approaching them in skill are not already among us; Leonard and Westlake had to write for many years before achieving the status they have now.

I totally, unabashedly think Hearts and Bones is a great album. I would even say it is even Paul Simon's best. The lyrics range from mysteriously evocative ("Renee and Georgette Magritte and their dog after war…"), silly ("If more of my homes had been more like my cars/I probably wouldn't have traveled this far"), to…

It's important to have some kind of goal in life, @avclub-1d04064d540beb34e0cc414561bc6f35:disqus .