Your standard door generally is a ‘cross and book’ style - look, the upper four panels form a cross, and the lower two form a book.

Which, no, was not meant to be symbolic (even in early America), but yeah, Draculas would have problems with doors if that were the case.

I’ve always hated autumn and winter. Where I live now, it’s fairly mild and i guess I shouldn’t complain. But when I was little, we lived so far north that the first little chill in the air meant that within two weeks it would snow and then it would be ball-breakingly cold until about April. Of course now, thanks to…

go ahead and light a fire!

Pluralizing the infamous Count as “a” Dracula is one of our home’s running gags :)

One good thing about autum though is at least you can go out or do something and not need a shower ten seconds later ;-)

I remember nothing about the actual movie Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (in both the Hammer Dracula and the Hammer Frankenstein movies the sequels tend to have more or less interchangeable plots) but the poster is delightfully Hammer, with a close up on a heaving bodice and two band-aids affixed to a neck wound.  

I watched The Abyss this weekend, and when I saw that one character had a pet rat, I spent the entire movie worrying that it would die to provide some pathos to the movie. I am happy to report back that I was mistaken, and the rat survives to the end of the movie! Agree with you, rats are very sweet and loveable, and…

I generally dislike CGI in comparison to practical effects, but, like you say, the one big positive of digital effects is that film studios no longer feel the need to put real animals at risk during hazardous scenes.

Sympathy for the rats! I did quite love the Indy trilogy’s penchant for using real-life snakes and bugs and rats for their traditional ick scenes.

This is the second time I’ve posted a link to this poem on the AVC: the last time it creeped someone out. And it is creepy. But I like it because of that. It’s by Marianne Moore, entitled “A Grave,” and it pointedly reframes the sea as cemetery. So don’t let your guard down, the sea is trying to eat you. On the other…

Are you asking me how to spell something? Oh my lord! Haha! I wasnt sure if it was surebert or sherbert.

I love anything chocolate in ice cream flavors but also I like sherberts. And green tea is real awsome dont you think?

We have a stroller and we have this carry vest thing that EB likes to wear. Its realy cute. Hes like I dont know maybe a bear or something? Or a koala? Wait its koala bear. Isnt it? Is a koala a type of bear or is it another thing? Whatever rihgt? Haha! Anyway its fun and the stroller is like this realy cool one where…

Winnie the Pooh is there but hes called Pooh san here. Isnt that cute? I wander if Mimi Puff can learn to say that before we go! Theres a Pooh movie? I didnt know about that!

Haha! No its totaly over! They wanted me to take extra classes and it was realy touch and go but my cousin finaly called and said I coudnt do it becase we have family plans. Binky its kind of a secret but my grades so far have been pretty stinky even by my own standerds! Haha! Im sorry I have a lot on my mind every…

I’m with you! I’d like to believe that Gandhi was mostly as history portrayed him. And one can’t deny that he most definitely had an impact on the world. His teachings went on to influence many other great leaders. And no Indian can doubt his impact on the independence of India.

I remember seeing Gandhi in the theaters when I was a snot-nosed little tyke. We’re Indian so my parents considered it required viewing.

Its here! Summer vacatoin is here! I have LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF HOMEWORK! UGG! Theres to much math homework Binky and way to much English homework to. Sorry I coudnt talk but I mean realy the last week of school was rediculous. And on the last day we had to clean our homerooms.

If you like Gandhi, you need to check out Gandhi II:

I also think Horror of Dracula is one of the best adaptations of the novel. The plot changes are an improvement, particularly Jonathan Harker’s motivation in coming to seek out Dracula in the first place (it’s been awhile, but isn’t he covertly doing so in the service of Van Helsing?). And of course Christopher Lee -…