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I'm going to make a new website. It's something of a combination of MySpace and Facebook. I'm going to call it YOUR FACE.

"Fire in the Sky" is good. I'm one of the few people who saw it in the theatre. As noted above, the scenes where D.B. is on the alien ship are exceptionally well done and creepy. Think eyeball probe here. Plus it's got T-1000/Agent Dogget, the guy from Clive Barker's "Nightbreed", and Jim Rockford. Jim Rockford!

I WASN'T CRYING…
…there was something in my eye, I swear.

Um, I actually got to drive tanks while I was in the Army, and yes, we crushed shit on purpose all the time. Also drove really fast into creeks filled with muddy water. Also put deisel soaked rolls of toilet paper onto the rounds we fired when on a night range so they would blow up all pretty and we would go "Ooooh,…

Bill Bryson's "Brief History of Nearly Everything" I read every couple of years. It's simply amazing, and I challenge that everyone could learn something from it since it covers many of the sciences: geology, astronomy, anthropology, evolutionary science, etc. Plus Bryson's writing style and trademark mischievious…

Great Derangement, especially the part where he infiltrates the San Antonio mega-church, was awesome. I had never realized the part of "Christ will come back bearing a rod" that is a central tenet of the "new" Christianity.

I've yet to read a Dan Simmons book that wasn't a page-turner, The Terror being no exception. I read it in the middle of a Texas winter (which is colder and windier and wetter than you guys think, for those who haven't been here) and I was just chilled to the bone reading it. But even though it was freezing outside,…

Louis Cypher!

I thought it was a little too close for comfort to KKK. Seriously?

I thought Enron way more interesting than the Corporation. The Corporation had a good central idea but it kind of meandered, whereas Enron kept my blood boiling the entire time. It actually made me feel slightly homicidal.

This is kind of a staple of old science fiction stories. Edmond Hamilton wrote a book like this about 60 years ago.

I tried to read the Dark Tower series TWICE. Got to Book 3 TWICE. Liked Book 1 both times, couldn't get through Book 3 either time.

There are apes, but they've been reduced to ash.

Plus, don't you have to watch out for living dead in the vicinity of Pittsburgh?

I downloaded the soundtracks to both "The Proposition" and "The Assassination of Jesse James". They're both good, if a bit bleak.

IN OTHER, OTHER NEWS….

I think if "Blood Meridian" is filmed, Tom Colicchio's doppelganger at the top of the page here would be a great choice to film it. He as much as acknowledged that "The Proposition" was ripped from Blood Meridian.

"When you see the film with the audience, there's more laughter than in an Eddie Murphy comedy."

Wasn't the main theme of Apocalypse Now established about a hundred years earlier by Joseph Conrad?

Jesus, this whole thread was one long take.