Thanks to the French, though, we do have at least a phrase for a feeling we can't quite describe: "je ne sais quoi". That works quite nicely.

Also, the music worked so perfectly with the scene. You get the little "twinkly" woodwinds as you pan from space to a quiet planetary system. Then the percussion hit and big brass fanfare, then VOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!

Let's just say you don't actually need a privy at a certain point. Someone else, however...

"Dude, have you seen my Gourd of Travel?"

Give me some Dark Overlord!

How about this one? Solid acting, good pacing, gorgeous cinematography, clever use of illusion, a fantastic soundtrack...and it simply fell off the face of the Earth. Doesn't even get played on cable.

Word is, the kernel at the center of the BB sequel eventually became Big Trouble in Little China, so...kind of?

My God...that is...I mean...I...whoa.

I tease my brain all the time. "Nyah, nyah stupid brain", I tell it. "You can't fully explain string theory or perform differential calculus without paper or calculators! And you're grey and wrinkly and probably smell funny!"

Stephen King's Pet Sematary is a truly unnerving book, not because of the actual events of the book, but because of what it unlocks inside the characters. Oz the Gweat and Tewwible? Yeah, that preyed on my mind a lot when I was a teenager.

The book was a fun, quick read. And then a fun, quick second read. And then a fun, quick devouring of the next two books in the series over a period of about two weeks.

Freebird!

Truly, it's the chain that ties this outfit together.

I'd rather take the artist's final vision of the work as the artist's representation of what was better.

I admit I didn't click through the original article and probably should have. I reacted to the author's line here:

Seems a bit presumptuous to me. Were I an artist, I would want folks to exhibit my work as I presented it, not to roll it back to an earlier "draft" form and present it as a more authentic version of my work.

Birth.

I don't remember, exactly. I do remember reading "The Hobbit", the LotR trilogy, A Wrinkle in Time (we read it as a class in 4th grade), and this:

I remember this! I also remember being a little disappointed that Chewie didn't look like a ticked-off Sasquatch.

That might have been what he was talking about, but then he got behind all those nifty digital computer monitors and drifted and walked around in his non-clockwork robot. :)