Why would evolutionary *psychology* address a situation which is clearly a matter of evolutionary *biology.* Though there are notable connections between biology and psychological—or, rather, *neurological*—matters, phenotypic expression of genetic characteristics inherited from parents is only applicable to neurology…

I'll actually take part in this one, considering I've already read The Quantum Thief twice.

Though I thought the train-crash scene was unnecessarily excessive (and that's coming from a guy who thinks Shit Blowing Up is one of the greatest things you can see in a movie), the rest of the flick is completely awesome. It's ET...with balls. And weird little metal cubes. Oh, and an alien that actually looks and…

I actually wrote a monograph about this that I wanted to get published in Lovecraft Studies in the '90s when I was still involved in academia. I'm going to rewrite it to take out all the academic bullshit verbiage and post it on my blog soon! I'll let you know when it's online!

"Environmentalists" can kiss my hyperevolved ass. Invasive species are one of evolution's greatest drivers! And "The point is that we need to stop fetishizing the idea that nature is a single, static entity" just won my coveted Quote of The Day Award.

I think it would be awesome if the creature turned out to be Cloverfield. I'm totally down with learning where that fucker came from.

I agree: FAR TOO MUCH Lovecraftian artwork derives more from common commercial depictions—Chaosium's CoC books being an obvious source—rather than from the original works themselves. Fortunately, HPL himself left us sketches of Cthulhu (or its green soapstone[-like] idol, at least), a ghoul, and a nightgaunt to help…

I've been following this here fella's work for some time now, and here's my take: on the one hand, much of his work is AWESOME and I particularly like his drawing/colouring style...but, on the other hand, his depictions are often very, very far from being true to Lovecraft's own depictions. Whereas he does Cthulhu and…

VANILLA ZERG! That just made my day.

The only one worth watching is the original—which is a combination of goofy schlock and mindblowingly-weird dread so potent it would give even H. P. Lovecraft a boner. I've always wanted to remake it, to remove the schlocky dumb shit like the finger that turns into an Evil Fly, to maximize the sheer weirdness, and to…

Virgins? No way in hell. I want 10,000 highly-trained Egyptian, Romanian, and Japanese courtesans!

Funk dat, I'd just build a castle atop a whole bunch of floating witches—or, even better, just build a church on the water...since, apparently, they float too according to Monty Python Logic.

Hey, it actually WORKED for Indiana Jones!

Gustave Dore is one of my longtime idols of illustration and design. Once you know something about the process by which he created those incredibly detailed illustrations, you'll realize the man's talent was literally staggering. Seriously, look up how to do etching artwork—specifically, acid-etching.

FUCK THE FUCK YEAH. Especially if the species were belligerent, because then I would convince them that the Human species needs wiped out except for a handful of individuals (specified by myself, and including myself) that they should keep in a posh alien zoo.

You can build a castle of logic, but if it's based on a completely untenable premise, it'll collapse into the swamp. All such Medieval arguments for "god" as "the greatest thing imaginable" are instantly rendered invalid by virtue of being patently ridiculous.

I'd love to see a movie of this type, as well. Unreliable narrators are awesome!

Oh, I have nothing to say about her personally—I'm sure she's a perfectly nice lady, and no doubt I'd get along with her famously! My opinions of her writing have nothing to do with her personally. Her writing just doesn't do it for me one bit, and I find it very difficult to account for why she consistently wins so…

Though this sounds...interesting, in and of itself, it's VERY VERY VERY abundantly, and unequivocally, clear from Ms. Shelley's novels that Victor never had a twin, and he learned everything he knew about alchemy from reading of it first in his father's library at home and then at the University of Ingolstadt.

Ah, shitballs. I was expecting the perfectly humanoid, breedable-with-humans "aliens" to turn out to be humans from a parallel timeline—maybe a timeline where they hit the Capital-S Singularity in the 1940s. But nooooooo, can't do anything THAT logical! (And that's not very logical at all.)