Ur zepplin iz in my airfeeld, 'sploding all my hydrogen.

1967.

Good evening, Mr. Hun!

I found Python just before Meaning of Life came out—my best friend and I would hang out in the basement rec room catching the show on PBS on Friday evenings. When MoL was reviewed in Newsweek, there was a photo of Mr. Creosote that I clipped out and kept in my wallet to show to the same friend during physics class…

Follow the gourd!

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Speaking of urban ruins, I've made one to Detroit—drove around the "skyscraper sarcophagus", saw Michigan Central Station, and most especially the ruins of Brush Park. One of those houses appears in the opening sequence of "Beverly Hills Cop."

HHOF - I've been through it only once (the hall where they keep the trophies is doubly beautiful, both for hockey history and for the building itself), but I walk right by it a couple of times a week and have visited the gift shop frequently.

This is my peanut brittle, broken for you. Take in remembrance of me.

Detroit: best urban ruins anywhere. Feral houses, not feral dogs.

Well, Hooky without the beard reminds me a little of Terry Jones. I keep thinking of how he'd look in a dress discussing the penguin on the telly.

Ascendit autem et Ioseph a Galilaea de civitate Nazareth in Iudaeam civitatem David quae vocatur Bethleem eo quod esset de domo et familia David ut profiteretur cum Maria desponsata sibi uxore praegnate
factum est autem cum essent ibi impleti sunt dies ut pareret
et peperit filium suum primogenitum et pannis eum…

Hoser report
A number of the smaller communities around Toronto have Christmas craft shows (and there are also numerous church bazaars and craft sales as well). There's also the massive "One of a Kind" craft sale in Toronto, but the true "Christmas Market" idea in the German style (e.g. Olde Worldy European) hasn't…

Actually, pirates are the original pirates. They had piracy in the ancient world, too—just without the eyepatches and rum and saying "ARRR" all the time.

One of the things I love about the sequence is the realization at the end that even the perception of Santa and the elves has been through a child's eye. You catch a glimpse at the end of both Santa and elves looking much less scary and much more jolly and the children screaming with delight as they slide down the…

I was pretty hot for Peter Gabriel in the 80s. Those eyes, that goofy Sledgehammer video (with the dancing chickens), those wack-o early Genesis years. And then he pudged out and started looking like Dr. Evil. Still love his music, though.

Hey, Stalin IS the Man of Steel.

thank you, Arduous, for the gratuitous historical snicker.

And I would argue the best use of the Shiva line is the second time in the movie, by Michael Clayton at the very end as Clayton has just turned down a payoff and Swinton's character realizes what's about to transpire. It was set up perfectly by the first scene (quoted above) but that scene is what really brings it…

Possesser of genuine framed, decorative medieval history PhD here….