Unfortunately, my degree from Art Instruction Schools ruined my ability to draw anything but pirates, turtles and parrots.

Actually, the book refers to both "comet debris" and "meteor showers," although the protagonist speculates that the mass blindness was caused by some WMD gone awry.

Since you took my all-time favorite opening, I'll offer up this, which I know is borderline :-). On the other hand, a roman à clef about the sole (white) survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn probably could be considered a fantasy, right? In any case, many of my generation will remember watching Branded on…

And your great comment made *me* curious to find the image. Here it is...

Favorite typo of the day: "Gustav Hoists The Planets (Mars)" Gustav is one strong dude.

I'm still on the fence about Agents of SHIELD, but any show that gives a shout-out to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series is ok in my book.

The Twilight of the Superheros proposal was much more than "scribbled notes" See http://fourcolorheroes.home.insightbb.com/twilightfree.h… for Moore's proposal. And it didn't sell to DC for the same reason his first pitch for WATCHMEN using the original Charlton characters didn't sell — too much damage to canon and…

You had me up to "First Tamale"

My favorite

"Davis is wearing the orange hat blanket." Ah, yes. While Carrie might not resemble Leia all that much these days, I don't think anyone would mistake her for an Ewok, or Ewok actor.

Well, I've gone from no interest, little interest, to "maybe I'll go see it," so the trailers are doing their job.

I just recently fell in love with the Doubleclicks after seeing them on the NSFW show (as the name implies. Not nasty, but language).

"Children in a New York City school display the metal identification tags or "dog tags," they have been given to wear for purposes of identification "in case of an atomic bomb attack." Newspapers have publicized the fact that the metal of which the tags are constructed will withstand heat that will incinerate human…

I'm not sure which alternate universe version of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love you were reading, but Maureen Smith was not pregnant with Woodrow Wilson Smith aka Lazarus Long when she met the adult Lazarus. In fact, Woody was around 5 or 6. and a key scene in TEfL is Woody interrupting Lazarus and Maureen at an…

My first thought was I don't want to live in a world where there are no honey bees. A little too Blade Runnerish

Probably just a coincidence, but this reminded me of the infamous "Daisy" ad of the `60s.

One of my all-time favorite jokes was told by Mort Sahl about Von Braun. In 1960 a biographical film about Von Braun was released titled "I Aim for the Stars." Sahl remarked that it should have been called, "I Aim for the Stars But Sometimes Hit London."

"Hacker Sander"? Are other characters named Dash Riprock and Beef Jerky?

I just finished the audio version read - with meta-irony - by Wil Wheaton. Highly recommended.