I think Cannibal Holocaust covered that one already

Yeah for some reason in the Boston area, anyway, it was packaged with the Splits. Maybe some weird syndication deal?

Nobody seems to have mentioned this yet (forgive m if I didn’t read down far enough) but I recall the Banana Splits had that mixed animation - live action version of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where basically Huck, Tom and Becky end up going through what amounts to some kind of weird interdimensional gateway…

I have two schemes: fiction I have on a set of shelves I built into an alcove (this being NYC there are some odd layouts in 50s-era buildings) but I alphabetize by author for those.

The problem is that all the test shows you is that you have certain markers / sequences in common with various population groups, and the accuracy of the data is highly dependent on how many people are in the database to begin with. So the results are reasonably OK for any groups from say, Europe, but much, much less…

I recall the appearances of Morbius form the 70s/early 80s. I thought the concept was interesting — a vampire of sorts created by science who wasn’t truly undead. But dang, talk about a third-stringer...

Question: I don’t keep up with this stuff at all, really, but I noticed that old Dr Who episodes were unavailable on Netflix, and I was a little disappointed. (I was looking for some of the old 4th Doctor stuff I had seen on there before). Anyone know what was up? Or has the BBC just moved everything onto their own…

Point taken, I was thinking more of the printed material.

curious where that page is from? I would love to get the rest of that book, it looks pretty wild.

Late to this, but I suspect some of the problem was that Lee et al ran the business as a small one way past the time when they had to put on big-boy (or big-business) pants as it were. When your company is a few guys almost all of whom are freelancers but nobody is getting paid much (including Lee) then it’s OK, but…

YES. Magic and Loss is one of the most moving meditations on mortality ever. And the line “the coal black sea/ waits for me me me” is such a great opening.

Billy Bragg has such great lyrical sensibility. Simple, spare, and always catchy or haunting when he needs to be.

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this — but Lou Reed’s “Haloween Parade” always brings me to near tears.

Jewish people were a sizable chunk of the populace, but nowhere near a majority then or now (Jewish people are about 1/7 of the population now, it was likely in that neighborhood in 1939). Anyhow that means that pork would have been a big part of the meat-import business here, and pig farms were common in the outer…

Late to this, but the backstory of Gus in Chile offers some hints — there’s a mention in BB of how he is something of a ghost. Gus is in his what, 50s?

If we all lived in a vacuum that would be more tenable. The problem wasn’t that some parents manage to do well by their children, it’s that those children confuse “I had a lot of advantages” with “I deserve them because I worked hard, and I will simply ignore all the leg-up I got.”

But do they? You are not made of all the same atoms you had in you a couple of years ago. In fact a big chunk of you recycles completely within weeks.

Leafing through the book again I see you are correct (also thanks Laserface) — in the book the epilepsy only becomes an issue when one of the characters goes into seizure as the nuke is about to go off. Maybe that’s why I forgot about it-- it doesn’t really affect the narrative in the way it did in the film. 

I think you could do some really interesting comparisons now that Crichton has had a whole lot of his books as movies. To your point about the 70s, The Andromeda Strain is at many levels quite like that — the book’s ending isn’t some great showdown but the virus (or rather, biological entity, I guess) just sort of…

Problem is, that’s not the way they have written it.