You'd think so, but for me, there was no problem. As soon as the card moved around just right, I saw a box.

I can imagine.

Ah, Highlander II. To this day, it's still number 1 on my list of Worst Movies I Actually Saw in a Theater. (Of course, it's been a while since I saw all that many movies in a theater, so I might need to change that list to Worst Movies I Actually Paid Money to See.)

This reminds me of The Avengers — not the new movie, the one back in the '90s with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. It's director missed the fucking point, too.

Whoops. It was Steve Martin and the line was, "Send more Chuck Berry."

There was an SNL bit back in the '70s (I think Robin Williams was the host) that presented a panel talking about the first message received by Earth from an extra-terrestrial civilization. This was after the Voyager probes were launched, and the bit mentions the audio record on the probes that included, among other…

I would define steampunk as a genre inspired by the seminal works of late-Victorian or Edwardian science fiction that combines the use of mechanical rather than electronic technologies to achieve contemporary results while affecting a Victorian-era attitude.

"I think maybe, in part, what draws some people to steampunk is that you can experience the genre on a highly individualized level."

I think of steampunk as a fantasy genre no less valid than Tolkienesque, medievalish fantasy. The difference is that Tolkienesque, medievalish fantasy as a genre was defined by a specific literary work and its imitators, while there has yet to be a definitive literary or cinematic work for steampunk. It's a genre in…

You're lucky. Around here, if you can find an attendant, they won't do anything about audience members except they're especially egregious, and not always even then.

I don't know. I'm burned out even on good CGI, and I'm a CG artist. I can't believe I'm the only one.

Well, I know I'm not.

You know, I often say that humans aren't nearly as violent as we believe we are — and I will curb-stomp the living shit out of anyone who disagrees.

Hey says that like it's a bad thing.

I think there are a lot of reasons that John Carter opened soft, including all the reasons mentioned in the article.

One set of actions doesn't necessarily preclude another. Andrew Borden could have genuinely loved his daughters and been genuinely concerned for their welfare, while at the same time being a miser who was perfectly willing to force his family to live in a manner other than what they might have preferred.

Is there some sort of nether region in the mind where you have realized that you hate where you live but have not yet found the inner resolve and conviction to go somewhere else yet?

My thoughts exactly.

Well, come on — have you ever been here? How could you not?

They misspelled "Mordor" as "Missouri" on this map.