Yep, that's definitely the film. I can't remember why exactly that drone attack scene keeps haunting me. Were their kids in the prince's car too? I just remember it being a pretty disturbing thing, and the fact that we are sort of distanced from it actually made it more disturbing rather than less disturbing, as…

So Tarsem made Mirror Mirror? Well, now I'm glad I didn't see it, because I probably would've lost a lot of respect for him, which is still riding fairly high after the one-two punch of The Fall and Immortals. The Fall is still in my top ten fantasy films of all time list.

Agreed. I think TDKR managed something that was almost impossible: tying together not one but both of the earlier films in a meaningful way that didn't feel forced, and yet also managing to stand on its own as a genuinely decent action flick. And despite Bane's voice issues and the fact that you never really see his…

Is that the one where the car is bombed at the end and you see it from the bird's-eye view? That scene has haunted me ever since I saw the film (if that's the one I'm thinking of). It almost feels like something that happened in a dream, but yet I know I saw it in a movie. You ever have those?

Gah! Anytime someone starts an article with "Stop what you're doing" my brain immediately kicks into "Cuz I'm about to ruin . . . the image and the style that you're used to." Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a nineties kid.

I think my favorite of these batches is actually Queen Margrethe's. First off, black & white works well for these stories because they deal with very elemental concepts of good and evil. Of course, as I am a black & white illustrator myself, I confess I am a little biased there. I also like the slightly woodblock-y…

So this is real? Dang, I always thought this was some mythical internet Photoshopped porn thing. Well, I know iguanas actually evolved two penises (peni?), so there are weirder things in the natural world.

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That . . . would be epic. Of course, given that he is committed to at least two more Avatar films, I doubt we'd see anything like that soon. It's more likely we'll never see it though. Directors throw those kind of comments out all the time to get people primed for it, thereby putting studios under pressure to make…

And that's what we call Dawson-casting. ;-)

Heh, sweet! And those 70s action toys weren't the wussy toys these kids have today. Those things could do some damage. Ah, shooting your siblings in the eye with spring-loaded missiles . . . good times.

This guy. His name is Mazinga and he is one of the original Shogun Warriors. I had this toy when I was a child and it was simply the most bad-ass thing in my entire toy collection, bar none. Wish I still had it.

Hmm, okay. Well, I might try eating a gluten-free diet for awhile, but if it sucks I am going back to my normal diet. It might be poisoning me, but hell, you only live once, and I don't think I really wanna live to be 80 or 90 anyway.

Ah, well okay then. I suppose I could've looked that up.

Yeah, so basically the only things we can eat anymore are vegetables, preferably raw, and occasionally chicken breast or fish, baked. Ya know what? Screw the health food industry. I will eat what I like. I am blessed with a high metabolism anyway; I can eat pretty much anything and not gain a lot of weight, which,…

Heh, yeah. Except I sought out the greasy car parts to use as toys. I had actual toys too, in case anyone gets the idea that I was deprived. I just added to what I had by whatever cool things I found lying around.

I used to play with old spark plugs by pretending they were star fighters, as they already sort of look like some kind of ship. My grandpa was a mechanic and there always tons of them lying around his garage. I had a whole squadron of them! Other abandoned parts made different ships, bases or buildings. If you're…

Well, for one thing I think this a false dichotomy. Even if divergent sexualities aren't traceable to a single gene, genes can still be influential, and moreover, even if genes aren't solely responsible for divergent sexualities, that doesn't mean it is a choice. Our brains begin fairly malleable in childhood, but…

I have long suspected that the 'gay gene' was problematic. I have done quite a lot of research on the issue of divergent sexualities, and my conclusion based on the evidence was, it's way more complicated than that. I have maintained that these sexualities could not be explained by anything so simple as a single…

A hobbit is a mixture of a horse and a rabbit, heh heh. That's actually a pretty good guess if you aren't familiar with the characters. I wouldn't be surprised if that was how Tolkien came up with the name. These things are often serendipitous. I mean, L. Frank Baum came up with 'Oz' by looking at a filing cabinet.