Indeed. Most post-apocalypse fantasists fail to recognize the apocalypse as it has been happening to failed societies since forever. The post-apocalypse fantasy shows little more than Westerners' ignorance of the goings-on in the world around them. I understand the urge to see the all too familiar, hated structures…

I've read the total opposite about #2. The pill is supposed to make women more attracted to less masculine men. lol I guess that's a good enough reason as any why I don't read these stupid magazines. It must be pretty stressful to try to be all things for all women. I feel sorry for these men who actually take…

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Any excuse to page through old issues of Heavy Metal... It really was a much better magazine then than it is now: pretty good balance between graphic storytelling, art, and pop culture commentary. They even had video game reviews! Nothing like reading a review of "DigDug" from a modern perspective.

According to the article, they met at the Hansen Gallery in New York about a year or two before beginning their collaboration. Giger had already gained notoriety by this time, and of course Deborah Harry was already famous. The art and entertainment culture of the time was very eclectic and half-formed so a…

Heavy Metal magazine did a pretty cool article about the Harry/Geiger creative pairing in their December of '81 issue, I believe.

I like how he adapts his tail to help him move around.

Honestly, you shouldn't have to defend analysis as a caveat to every conversation. Shrug. Just as I was saying to my Astronomy professor, that it's a shame teachers have to waste class time explaining what science is and defending its importance instead of using that limited time more effectively discussing the…

Can't we just slightly increase the duration of the standard second to calibrate our system of time to the Earth's rotation more closely? Or, is it changes in Earth's rotation that cause this? I.e.: The earth is slowing down?

Actually, in the case with the smoking, not saying anything was motivated by my getting tired of looking like a liar every time I'd say I was going to quit. Not sure why it actually worked when I said nothing. The example of writing doesn't really have much to do with the quality of the story. It's more that my…

Nice. You fixed it. :)

I get where you're coming from. The distinction is important if you actually want to understand these attitudes. Analysis of different types of prejudice isn't always weighing. There are plenty of other metrics. Sometimes conversations about racism and the like never move very far past condemning or condoning. …

This seems to work for me on a wide range of issues, for example: quitting smoking and writing. Whenever I told friends I was quitting smoking, I thought I was providing negative reinforcement (I don't want to be a liar), but I was just making it harder. The time I really quit was the time I didn't bother to say…

Yeah. I've talked to more than a couple of people who were pretty much spoiled by their experience working at Yahoo! at the time. (I live in Santa Cruz).

Take any and all economic advice in context of the economic climate (and your own prospects of course).

Yeah, I said pretty much the same about "Noah", but you're right about the others. Are we so lost in 2nd and 3rd generation adaptations and reboots, that 1st generation reboots look like original ideas?

I hate when a good director (Aronofsky) decides he can direct ANY concept, and it will be good. I guess I'll see "Noah", but Noah as an environmentalist? Yeah, I'll wait for the DVD on this one, dude. I don't know. This all reminds me of the fake film about Mother Teresa in the movie, "How To Lose Friends and…

It's funny how the Beatles are mentioned, because the reason for much of this is the fact that Y (the generation right before the one mentioned in the article) was the 2nd biggest generation in American history. The first biggest was of course the one that made the Beatles famous in the first place. Not hard to…

In my experience, it seems that religious people require that feeling of absolute certainty just to stay sane.

It just feels that this anti-doctor, anti-hospital sentiment that seems to accompany these arguments is kinda dangerous and has no place in the discussion. That's what mainly worries me. If the issue is the institutions, then the answer is reform, not retreat from those institutions entirely.